Marilyn Monroe, as played by Canadian actress Charlotte Sullivan, will feature in the upcoming TV mini-series, The Kennedys, alongside Greg Kinnear and Katie Holmes.
The Kennedys is produced by Joel Surnow – ‘an outspoken Republican, friend to Rush Limbaugh, and creator of 24′, according to Toronto Life. It has already been condemned as a ‘character assassination’ by Kennedy speechwriter Ted Sorensen.
After its completion, the US History Channel decided that The Kennedys ‘is not a fit for the History brand’. It will now be shown on cable television instead.
Sullivan, 27, played the bully Marion Hawthorne in Harriet the Spy (1996.) More recently, she has appeared in the Canadian TV series, Rookie Blue. According to Charlotte’s official website, ‘Her porcelain skin and stunning grace belies a wicked sense of humour and a twisted addiction to her muse, the gory, cryptic and macabre world of Tim Burton but still she balances all this with a glamour from a time long gone.’
If the trailer is anything to go by, The Kennedys will be a splashy, melodramatic portrait of America’s onetime first family. Let’s just hope that Marilyn will be treated with respect.
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