Gentlemen Prefer Blondes is a film about "Well-dressed whores," according to Blonde director Andrew Dominik

For a man making a film about Marilyn Monroe, Blonde director Andrew Dominik seems to not really pay any respect to the actress or her work. In a shared outtake from a new interview for the British Film Institute’s Sight and Sound with the director, Dominik calls Monroe’s famed romantic comedy, Gentlemen Prefer Blondes, a film about “well-dressed whores.”

“Does anyone watch Marilyn Monroe movies?” Dominik says before going into his sexist, ill-conceived, and outright stupid take on the Howard Hawks-directed film.

This is not the only time Dominik throws around the word “whore” in the interview, as he also shares his strange, misogynistic thoughts on Monroe’s status as a sex symbol in Hollywood—mentioning Gentlemen Prefer Blondes in the process.

“Well, she was a strange sex symbol because she doesn’t have to die at the end [of her films] like a Barbara Stanwyck or a Rita Hayworth,” Dominik says. “But she had to be a little baby. So, when she sings ‘Diamonds Are a Girl’s Best Friend’—it’s like, is that sisterly advice, ‘If you’re gonna fuck, make sure you get paid’? Or is it just romanticised whoredom?”