In the upcoming film My Week with Marilyn, Michelle Williams plays Marilyn Monroe, and Dominic Cooper will play photographer Milton Greene. “He was quite an old* man, but they had a very close relationship,” Cooper says. “I think Marilyn felt very supported by him in the beginning. But ultimately he became her agent and business partner, which is rather a lot.”
Greene sounds like another of Cooper’s ethically dubious characters. “There’s a sinister edge to some of them,” he agrees. “But I like the challenge of making them multi-dimensional. It’s fun to play characters who are narcissistic and arrogant and obviously not very nice. The pleasure is trying to inject a quality into them that an audience can tolerate and understand.”
*In 1956, Greene was 34, just four years Marilyn’s senior, so not ‘old’ at all. I assume this is a typo and Cooper might have actually said ‘odd’.
