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SALTBURNT AU (FOR JUNE).
May. 22nd, 2025 06:06 pmANORA MIKHEEVA
💋 SALTBURNT'S OWN MARILYN MONROE
AU ROLE:
The entertainment who never left. The story goes like this: she was brought in to sing at a birthday party, barefoot on the ballroom's piano, red silk dress like a cherry stain against the keys. No one remembers whose birthday it was, only how her voice made everyone stop, listen, and weep. Now she's permanent fixture as the manor’s glamour girl, champagne glass in hand, heartbreak behind the eyes.
She's not exactly staff, or family — she's not even a proper guest anymore. She's kept, draped across sofas in silk robes and backless gowns, preserved like something beautiful and sad in amber. She's been married (and divorced) three times already despite being only 24 — her most recent to football darling FP Jones, a scandalous union that lasted ten months before it crashed and burn, just like the rest.
People call her the estate’s most public secret — all painted lips and mascara tears — always invited, never on the official guest list. She's always rumored to be someone's mistress, everyone's mistake, and no one's wife anymore.
BACKSTORY:
Before Saltburnt, she had a name on marquees.
A West End darling by eighteen, Ani was discovered in a Soho jazz bar by a retired producer who liked the way she sang sultry torch songs like they were tragic confessions. He elevated her until she was playing the doomed ingenue on London's stage, always dying by Act Two, while the world fell in love with her sadness. Audiences wept, critics swooned — and eventually, Hollywood called.
And, for a while, it was everything Ani had ever dreamed.
She was named the next big thing, put in cover shoots, perfume campaigns, cast in femme fatale roles as a silver screen siren. Her voice had rasp, her face had softness, and her body was a weapon. She wanted love, but she kept getting cast in tragedies.
The industry used her up fast. Said she was "difficult" when she cried too much, "unstable" when she wanted to be understood and held, "done" and tired by the time she turned twenty-four, a star that burned up bright — and too fast. A few high-profile breakups followed, then a leaked tape, then rehab rumors. For Ani, the heartbreak has always been louder than the applause.
RUMORS:
🦋 “She makes extra money ‘reading fortunes’ in lingerie. It’s just her guessing how you’ll die, but sexy.”
🦋 “She got kicked out of BAFTA night for saying the Best Actress should’ve gone to her sex tape.”
🦋 “She got banned from a wedding at Saltburnt for giving a toast to the groom’s ex-wife. In Russian.”
🦋 “Every time she gets sad, someone at Saltburnt proposes to her. She’s said yes five times, then ghosted.”
🦋 “She once asked someone to marry her during sex, then forgot by morning.”
🦋 “There’s a video of her and both Colchester boys. No one’s ever seen it, but everyone swears they have.”
🦋 “She keeps a gun in her garter. It's rhinestoned. Safety off.”
🦋 “Her first wedding dress was white latex. Backless, no panties.”
🦋 “She had a sugar daddy die mid-blowjob. Rumor says she finished her drink before calling for help.”
🦋 “She faked her death last year for attention. Threw a party the day after her ‘funeral.’”
🦋 “She said she doesn’t sleep around. She just doesn’t like sleeping alone.”
🦋 “She once slapped Jonty at a masquerade, then kissed Portia in the same breath.”
🦋 “She once bit a man for calling her ‘cheap.’ He tipped her five figures and asked if she’d do it again.”
🦋 “She once walked into a dinner party with nothing under her fur coat but a necklace that read ‘alimony.’”
🦋 “Someone said she keeps her exes’ teeth in a Cartier box. She says that’s ‘a cruel exaggeration. It’s a Tiffany’s box.’”
🦋 “Someone tried to blackmail her with nudes. She has framed them in her hallway.”
🦋 “She wears diamonds in the bath. Says she wants to look beautiful if she dies in it.”
🦋 “She once threw a champagne bottle at a casting agent. Missed. He cast her anyway.”
IMPORTANT CONNECTIONS:
- ASH COLCHESTER — JFK to her Marilyn. Secretive, doomed.
- EMBRY MOORE — RFK to her Marilyn. Twice as doomed.
- FP JONES — Ex-husband #3. Married fast, divorced just as quick. Joe Dimaggio/Marilyn vibes.
- SHADOWHEART — ex-fling.
- JEM WALKER — former step-kid #1.
- DANNY JOHNSON — former step-kid #2, mommy attachment issues.
LOOKING FOR:
- Past marriages, the one ex she never got over, flings she ghosted (oops), her current obsession(s), benefactors who fund her lifestyle, a party circuit crew, her replacement, an understudy, etc etc. If you can dream it, we can build it!! OTA, really.
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VISUALS:
- pinterest board tbd
