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German actress Diane Kruger remembers when she first drove through a Hollywood studio’s gates.

The studio system, it really was a revolutionary act. >> thank you so much. i really appreciate it. >> thanks, erin. >> really makes me eager to watch here. i hope you all will as well. tune in, the all new cnn original series reframed, marilyn monroe, premieres with back-to-back episodes sunday at 9:00, only on cnn. >> ac 360 starts now. good evening. in so many ways the stakes for democracy only grew higher and perhaps so too did the cost of defending it because now for the first time in its criminal investigation, the justice department has brought charges of seditious conspiracy in conne...

In. i knew a lot about the studio system era according to his experiences, but for a woman, it was vastly different. and i think one of the most fascinating things i learned about her is just how much she was sort of the arbiter of her own destiny, and she was really proud of that. there actually was no shame about her sexuality and that she used that as a tool to sort of get herself where she needed to go and create the art that she wanted to create. i think we usually think of her as a victim, as someone who was taken advantage of, and she definitely was. but at the same time, she was really...

With the studio, to set up her own production company, and as we saw in that clip there, to begin to fight for certain kinds of measures of respect like director approval, co-star approval, and script approval. >> that's pretty extraordinary, especially at that time too. i mean, she had already transformed herself so many times over, right? sometimes at the recommendation of bigwigs in hollywood. and she did so. so i guess what i'm saying is, she found ways in which to acquiesce and at the same time she found a balance on when to put her foot down. >> absolutely. she was trying to work with th...

Might be bad for business. >> posing nude was such an explosive thing. >> there was great anxiety. say you didn't. i said, but i did. you know, i should say that i did, and they were very unhappy. >> joining me now is amber tamblyn, emmy and golden nominated director and actor, and the author of several books including dark spackler, where she writes about marilyn monroe and other actresses who died before their time. so amber, you were interviewed for this new series, and you were in the midst of a lot of research on marilyn monroe. what do you want people to learn about her story? >> thank y...