![]() “To me, Marilyn had always been a bit one-dimensional,” Cooper says. ![]() He was the one who sold Cooper on the concept, convinced that she would also come to see the person behind the legacy of victimhood. Cooper’s film joins investigative journalist Anthony Summers as he recounts the important points of his 1985 book Goddess: The Secret Lives of Marilyn Monroe, its timeline and accompanying insights repackaged for a visual medium. The instinct to do away with appearances and expose the foundations undergirding an image aptly matches the intent of her latest project, which favors fact-based reportage over thrall to Monroe’s dazzle. The inked portrait isn’t a caricature of those distinguishing features instead it’s winnowed down to uncolored outlines so minimal we may as well be looking at the screen idol’s bones. You’re going to go mad for her.’ I thought, ‘Of course I won’t.’ Cut to me on Sunset Boulevard, getting this done.” While I was in town, I also met one of her biographers. ![]() ![]() “On my first research trip in Los Angeles, I went to see her grave and visit the Academy. “I did not think I’d end up having her as part of my body, but you become obsessed with her,” she tells the Guardian. ![]()
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