Susan Sarandon to play Marilyn Monroe's mother in Lifetime miniseries 

Susan Sarandon to play Marilyn Monroe\'s mother in Lifetime miniseries

Susan Sarandon is coming to a small screen near you.

, Lifetime’s upcoming four-hour miniseries. Based J. Randy Taraborrelli’s

, the miniseries promises to reveal “what the iconic superstar succeeded in hiding from an all-too-invasive world.”

Sarandon will play Monroe’s mentally ill mother. The official description adds, “Marilyn is both the personification of sex, whose first marriage ironically collapses because of her frigidity, and a fragile artist who seeks the approval and protection of men. But after tumultuous marriages with Joe DiMaggio and Arthur Miller, she realizes she has the strength to stand on her own. She becomes the Face and Voice of an era, yet wants most of all to be someone’s mother and someone’s little girl. She’s the Marilyn you haven’t seen before, the artist who, by masking the truth with an image, gives her greatest performance.”

) and directed by Laurie Collyer. It’s expected to premiere in 2015.

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