How Maggie Gyllenhaal Used Dakota Johnson and Ellen Burstyn to Reimagine Marilyn Monroe at 100 in Venice Short ‘Flesh Impact’

Watch an exclusive first clip from that will premiere at the Venice Film Festival

By Clayton Davis

Clayton Davis

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Marilyn Monroe would have turned 100 this year. So when Maggie Gyllenhaal was approached to make a movie about her, she asked for a weekend to daydream about what that milestone might look like. What came back was “Flesh Impact,” a 17-minute short that hands the most consumed movie star of the 20th century something she was rarely granted in life — the floor to speak her mind.

The film premieres at the Venice Film Festival, where Gyllenhaal is also serving as president of this year’s competition jury. Variety is exclusively debuting a clip from the short below.

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