Marilyn Monroe biopic star Ana De Armas slams NC-17 rating from Netflix

Star of the forthcoming Marilyn Monroe biopic Ana de Armas has criticized the show’s rating, saying there are many more explicit programs on the major streaming service.

There are “a number of episodes or movies” that are “far more graphic with a lot more sexual stuff,” the actress remarked, adding that she was “baffled” by the NC-17 classification for the program.

The decision was denounced by director Andrew Dominik as political and “a load of horses***.” Over the Motion Picture Association of America rating.

The picture has been watched and is well received by both blonde novelist Joyce Carol Oates and Jamie Lee Curtis, whose father Tony Curtis co-starred with Monroe in Some Like It Hot.

Many claim that by giving the program the adults-only classification, Netflix is attempting to increase the anticipation for the show before its September 28 premiere in the hopes that more people would tune in.

Our tiny screens are now full with incredibly sexy possibilities from the streaming juggernaut, in addition to increasingly gory and bloody horror selections.

Movies rated NC-17, 18+, are not necessarily always pornographic or obscene, but most cinemas won’t screen them since many newspapers and TV stations refuse to run ads for them.

Blonde is Netflix’s first NC-17 release, but the giant has previously launched several much raunchier series and movies – including 365 Days and Bonding.

It is unclear exactly what scenes have given the new biopic it’s rating, but Dominik confirmed that there was a depiction of rape in the show. 

DailyMail.com takes a look at the movies and TV shows that the Cuban actress could be referring to – with much racier scenes than Blonde…

356 Days

RATING – TV-MA

Polish film 365 days, tells the story of ‘fiery executive’ Laura Biel (Anna-Maria Sieklucka) who is kidnapped and imprisoned on a holiday to Sicily by mafia boss Massimo Torricelli (Michele Morrone).

The film, which arrived on the streaming service in the both the UK and the US in July 2020, features scenes of BDSM, voyeurism and multiple kinky sex scenes – and it has sparked furious controversy on both sides of the Atlantic.

In once scene, Laura is forced to watch mafia boss Massimo be pleasured by another woman while she remains chained to a wall, wearing nothing but a dressing gown.

Another scene sees the couple engage in some very steamy intercourse on the mafia boss’ yacht after Massimo saves Laura’s life.

Shocked viewers also watch Laura being tied to a chair on a private jet while Massimo teases her genitals.

Laura also teases Massimo by sexually arousing herself in the glass-pannelled shower while he lies in the nearby bed.

At another point the couple have sex against the window with the backdrop of Warsaw behind them.

Despite the criticism, the film had plenty of viewers feeling hot under the collar and it has been widely compared to E.L. James’s Fifty Shades franchise.

New Cherry Flavour

RATING – TV-MA

Scenes in a new gruesome horror drama series Brand New Cherry Flavour left some viewers feeling lie they had been ‘scarred’ for life after watching them.

A particularly “messed-up” clip from the fourth episode of the odd series, which debuted on the streaming service in August 2021, has lately gone viral.

Rosa Salazar plays the role of Brazilian filmmaker Lisa N. Nova in the series, which is based on the same-named 1996 novel. Lisa N. Nova relocates to Los Angeles in order to direct her first significant feature picture.

After relocating to Hollywood, Nova meets producer-director Lou Burke (Eric Lange), who eventually betrays her when she rejects his overtures, leading the aspiring filmmaker to recruit a witch’s assistance to curse him in retaliation for his cruel actions.

The magic was cast by a witch called Boro, but Nova is obliged to pay an exceedingly odd price for it: immediately after the spell was cast, Nova starts to throw up newborn kittens, which are then collected by a zombie and brought back to the witch.

The series’ fourth episode’s bizarre and graphic sex scene has drawn the most astonished and indignant responses, despite the fact that the narrative itself has left many viewers scratching their heads in perplexity.

Halfway through episode four, Nova finds a cut on her tummy, which sets off the scenario. She starts to touch the wound after being first terrified by it, which seems to turn her on.

Moments later, the director yells in agony as a cat “births” from the lesion, leaving her writhing in agony on the bathroom floor.

Before they start kissing, Nova confides in her new love Roy and explains her weird ailment to him.

Before the two have sex on the bed of a hotel room, Roy starts to rub the wound as they are hugging and ultimately places his full hand into it as Nova seems to get more excited.

Squid Game

RATING – TV-MA

A gruesome Netflix horror series about a fictional deadly game show in which poverty-stricken characters compete Battle Royale-style to win a £27million cash prize has come under fire from viewers over its ‘unnecessary gore and violence’.

Korean-made Squid Game features grisly scenes of characters being shot in the head and organ harvesting, in the latest example of shock-tactic programming from the streaming giant.

But some TV fans have been left repulsed by the excessive violence, with several saying they could not even make it through the first episode – and others recommending it be banned for viewers under 20 because it is ‘too gory’.

In the series, the characters are trapped inside a candy-coloured fortress and overseen by masks guards, also wearing pink.

Each character is in desperate need of money – one has escaped from North Korea and is trying to reunite her family – and so is willing to put her life on the line in the hope of winning the cash prize.

In each episode of Squid Game, characters take part in bloody versions of traditional children’s games, like Grandmother’s Footsteps, or British Bulldogs, with the winners progressing to the next ’round’ of the game show.

The losers are executed by a masked death squad standing by with machine guns, with one scene in a version of Grandma’s Footsteps showing a contestant covered in blood after their head is blown off.

The story centres around gambling addict Seong Gi-hun (Lee Jung-jae) and his childhood friend Cho Sang-woo (Park Hae-soo), a disgraced banker wanted by the police.

In the final episode of Squid Game – and ’round’ of the fictional game show within the series – the main characters are pitted against each other, with Gi-hun eventually tasked with killing his closest friend in order to win the game and take home the 45.6 billion won (around £28m) cash prize.

Ginny & Georgia

RATING – TV 14

Released earlier this year, Ginny & Georgia follows 15-year-old Ginny and her 30-year-old mother Georgia as the latter tries to give her children – which also includes son Austin – a better life.

However, Ginny feels like she’s more mature than her mother as the two explore different relationships in the comedy drama.

Viewers were left gobsmacked after Ginny went from ‘never having kissed a guy’ to suddenly losing her virginity in the very first episode.

Another shocking scene saw Ginny masturbate with a toothbrush as she began to discover her sexuality.

In episode four, she sends her boyfriend, Hunter, a photograph in her lingerie.

But after he doesn’t respond, she instead sends it to her secret lover and neighbour Marcus, who she lost her virginity to.

The two of them begin to exchange flirty messages and start to both masturbate – but to the shock of fans, Ginny uses an electric toothbrush, with the bristles up.

Bridgerton

RATING – TV MA

Netflix’s Regency-era romp Bridgerton has become a hit with viewers, at least partly for its raunchy sex scenes.

In the main the series follows Daphne (Phoebe Dynevor) and the Duke of Hastings (Regé-Jean Page) as they enter a complicated relationship with plenty of twists – and sexual tension.

Alongside that there are the love stories of other couples, including Daphne’s brother Anthony Bridgerton, who is in love with a courtesan opera singer.

The series was praised for a larger number of its sex scenes focusing on female pleasure, while critics suggested their were too many steamy moments for a period drama.

Within the first twenty minutes of the eight hour long series, Anthony Bridgerton – brother of protagonist Daphne – romps with a beautiful opera singer Siena against a tree.

There are at least 12 different sexual acts across eight episodes – from innocent snogging to daring oral sex, with one fan-favourite moment being between Daphne (Phoebe Dynevor) and the Duke of Hastings (Regé-Jean Page) on the stairs.

The Duke of Hastings also performs oral sex on Daphne in the library of a country home during a sex-filled montage in episode six.

The couple also had sex in the garden, in an inn while travelling and had steamy sex in the Duke’s master bedroom.

There was also a controversial scene where Daphne refused to let the Duke pull out before climaxing, so that she could fall pregnant with his child.

So raunchy were some moments that Netflix reportedly had to fight to keep the sex scenes off porn websites, after the news distressed castmembers.

The streaming giant had thought to have been ‘working tirelessly to hunt down pirates’ who uploaded the more intimate moments from the show, reports The Sun.

At the time, it was understood that many of the scenes had already been taken down from X-rated platforms after the cast were left feeling ‘horror and anger’ at seeing them online.

The Green Inferno

RATING – R

Eli Roth’s The Green Inferno is based on a group of students who travel to South American to protest against a chemical firm.

But when their plane crashes they are kidnapped by a cannibalistic tribe, who – graphically – start eating their prisoners one by one.

Viewers were left disgusted after the college kids saw themselves picked off one by one in increasingly gory ways.

One of those who was captured was beheaded, with the leader of the tribe holding his head aloft with a scream still on his face.

His eyeballs are plucked out, his tongue cut off before he is dismembered limb by limb.

There are also a number of sexual jokes, and nudity throughout the film which saw it hit with a backlash.

Bonding

RATING – TV MA

Bonding is a Netflix original series about a woman (Tiff played by Zoe Levin) who moonlights as a dominatrix to pay her way through graduate school.

She is joined by her best friend Pete (Brendan Scannell), an aspiring comedian who falls into becoming her bodyguard and assistant.

The second series of Bonding began in early 2021, and saw Tiff being trained in BDSM and role-playing.

One of the first scenes is of a man suspended facedown from the ceiling in full-body leather.

Dominatrix Mistress Mira (Nana Mensah) stands in front of him, harshly reprimanding Tiff and Pete before turning towards the men and asking ‘Are you all right, pet?’

Other astonishing scenes show Mira interacting with a client in a sleep sack while he has an apparatus controlling his oxygen flow.

In the first season, viewers witness Tiff tying up a client and engaging in Flintstones role playing.