She did not speak English before she moved to the United States

Ana de Armas .. a Cuban brunette evokes the character of Marilyn Monroe

De Armas revealed that she didn't know much about Monroe when she accepted the role.

AFP

There was no reason to believe that Anna, born in communist Cuba Fidel Castro in 1988, on the eve of the end of the Cold War era, might one day take on roles in American films that achieve great popularity, in which she embodies the characters of strong and seductive women,

However, it was this young actress with a charming smile who did not speak English before moving to the United States, who was chosen by director Andrew Dominic for this golden role.

The embodiment of Cuban Anna de Armas as Marilyn Monroe may be the "role of a lifetime" in her career, and the beloved Hollywood actress wants the biography of the famous blonde star included in the program of the Venice Festival as an essential station to complete her American dream.

The brown-eyed brunette spent her childhood and adolescence in Cuba, at a time when there were no electronic games or DVDs yet.

The little girl loved to play roles when she played with her friends on the streets or on the beaches.

Anna discovered American cinema on television, and when she was 14, she joined a theater institute with the encouragement of her parents, and it was only two years before she acted for the first time in a movie.

In 2006, she moved to Hollywood, even though she did not know any English!

This did not deter her from pursuing her ambition, so she persisted in learning the language in four months through intensive lessons.

She told Spanish television that the decision to leave was "not easy" because she had created a "new family" in Spain.

The Cuban young woman was rapidly advancing on the American film scene, and her performance emerged in 2017 in the movie "Blade Runner 2049", the sequel to Ridley Scott's famous movie, in which she embodied the hologram Joey character that accompanies Ryan Gosling's character.

But it was her collaboration with Daniel Craig that cemented her Hollywood presence, first in the movie Knives Out, where he plays an inspector while she takes on the role of a nurse in the service of a wealthy family that earned him a Golden Globe nomination, and then in the James series films. Bond "No time to day".

This film allowed her to enter the “James Bond girls” club, but in a modern version, far from the nature of this character in some previous parts of the series, when she was just a complementary element that does not steal the spotlight from Agent 007, but rather highlights him, in a scene of 10 Set in Cuba, Ana de Armas is a Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) agent who, in a skirt and high heels, defeats her enemies.

She also participated in the movie "Cuban Network" by Olivier Assayas, and used her ability to seduce in front of her ex-partner Ben Affleck in "Deepwater" by Adrian Lane on "Amazon Prime".

But there is no doubt that her starring in the Marilyn Monroe biopic "Blond" will take her career once and for all to another dimension.

She explains that she prepared for this role with dozens of hours of reading.

De Armas revealed that she didn't know much about Monroe when she accepted the role, but said she immersed herself in the character before filming began.

She added: “She was all I could think of, all I dreamed of, all I could talk about.

She was with me and she was beautiful.”

 Her collaboration with Daniel Craig made her Hollywood debut in Knives Out.

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