“I had never seen the original Marilyn tapes at all,” Portman says in Starting Young. She goes on to admit that her ...

Portman’s Marilyn Monroe impression in the film was inspired by Mike Myers. Besson got the idea for Léon while working on La Femme Nikita . The Chelsea Hotel was used for the interior shots of ...

While a number of Twitter users homed in on de Armas's visual dissimilarity to Monroe—an accusation we rebuke (she might not be a facsimile, but neither was Natalie Portman in Jackie)—others ...

At various points throughout the film, Portman’s Mathilda professes her love for Léon and in one scene sings both “Like a Virgin” and a Marilyn Monroe-esque “Happy Birthday (Mr. President ...