00:00You'll never guess which A-list actress is playing Marilyn Monroe next.
00:03Drumroll, please.
00:05Yep, that's Dakota Johnson.
00:07She traded in her signature brunette bangs for Marilyn's iconic blonde Bob.
00:11And it's all for Maggie Gyllenhaal's new film, Flesh Impact.
00:14Vanity Fair revealed the first look of Dakota Johnson,
00:17as well as 93-year-old Ellen Burstyn,
00:19as an imagined version of Monroe the world never had a chance to see.
00:23Gyllenhaal said she immediately wanted to cast Johnson in the lead role,
00:27but she was concerned that the Fifty Shades actress didn't look enough like Monroe.
00:31She told the outlet,
00:32Then I thought, that's ridiculous. Who cares?
00:34I don't know that anyone even really totally knows what Marilyn looks like,
00:38because she's been so commodified and made into this myth,
00:41and she's very blurry in my mind.
00:43Gyllenhaal's husband, Peter Sarsgaard, also stars in the project,
00:47as is the pit actress, Zepideh Moafi.
00:49As for Gyllenhaal's brother, Jake Gyllenhaal,
00:52doesn't look like he'll be in this one,
00:53but Jakey-Poo did make a cameo in her last film, The Bride.
00:56Flesh Impact is a 17-minute short film
00:59that will premiere at the Venice Film Festival in September,
01:02three months after what would have been Monroe's 100th birthday.
01:05Born Norma Jean Mortensen and later Norma Jean Baker on June 1, 1926 in Los Angeles,
01:12the Hollywood actress tragically passed away at the age of 36 in August 1962.
01:18Her cause of death was an accidental overdose of barbiturates.
01:22Her death was ruled a probable suicide.
01:24Dakota Johnson isn't the first actress to play Marilyn in Recent Memory,
01:28Ana de Armas in 2022's Blonde,
01:31and Michelle Williams in 2011's My Week with Marilyn.
01:34And anytime Kim Kardashian goes blonde, the comparisons fly.
01:38This was Kim K in 2022 in a leopard look.
01:41Rawr!
01:42That same year at the Met Gala,
01:43she squeezed into Marilyn Monroe's actual happy birthday dress.
01:47As for Dakota Johnson, in March,
01:49she became the new face and bod of Calvin Klein's spring 2026 campaign.
01:54The 36-year-old actress stunned in baggy jeans, and not much else.
01:58And of course, Dakota Johnson literally has Hollywood genes.
02:01Her mom is Melanie Griffith, and her grandmother is Tippi Hedren.
02:05She was one of Hitchcock's muses.
02:07She starred in The Birds and Marnie.
02:09And she's still kicking it today at the young age of 96.
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