Here’s Everything to Know About Ana de Armas, Bond Girl and Ben Affleck’s Rumored Love Interest – Yahoo Lifestyle

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Ana de Armas, 31, has been professionally acting since 2006, which means she's been successful, in her own right, for 14 years. She's appeared in, among other things, Bladerunner 2049 and the 2019 critical hit Knives Out, and she's the next Bond girl, Paloma, in the James Bond franchises' next installment, No Time to Die. The Cuban actress's career seems to be blossoming, but because we live in the pop-culture era of social media, we also know she's been rumored to be Ben Affleck's romantic interest.

Per Entertainment Tonight, Affleck and de Armas, Deep Water co-stars, were seen out together this week in de Armas's native country, Cuba. In real life, these two are rumored to be starting up a real romance. Here is some photographic evidence of the two apparently enjoying time together in Havana.

Patricia Highsmith didn't just write The Price of Salt, which subsequently was adapted into Carol, one of the only reasons to celebrate the holiday season, in this writer's humble opinion. She also wrote 1957 psychological thriller, Deep Water, which has been adapted into a movie that is coming out this year. The movie was filmed in New Orleans, where folks around town caught glimpses of de Armas and Affleck. The two seemed to spend much of last fall hanging around in Louisiana for the film, in which they play Vic and Melinda Van Allen, a couple in a loveless marriage.

Here are some other things to know about de Armas that have nothing to do with Affleck.

When she was 14, de Armas began to study theater at at the National Theatre School of Havana. She graduated in four years, but during that time, she made her first film in 2006, when she was 16. The film was called Virgin Rose, otherwise known as Una Rose de Francia, a story of immigration.

In Vanity Fair's March issue, de Armas told writer Sloane Crosley that when she visits her home country of Cuba, she doesn't pack clothes for herself.

"I came straight from Havana, so Ive been wearing my plane clothes," she said in the interview. "My suitcases go full of clothing or medicine or supplieswhatever people needand come back empty. My stylist gave me this Saint Laurent suit so Id look cool. I dont wear this in real life."

De Armas learned English in four months. She told V.F. that just a few years ago she learned English by sitting in a classroom for seven hours a day.

"People ask, 'How did you learn English so quickly?' I'm like, 'Because my life depended on it.'"

Per V.F., de Arma has a home in Havana, and she likes to spend time there as much as she can. She welcomed in 2020 this year at "a roof party in the old part of Havana, playing music and dancing and drinking."

De Armas left Cubid when she legally could, at the age of 18 and was able to get citizenship there because her grandparents are Spanish. There, she got an agent and "and then got lucky and a week later, a casting director called."

There has been a lot of discussion surrounding how this character would be portrayed post Me Too and Time's up. Armas seems very aware of the trickiness involved there.

Obviously I was jumping all over the place and very excited," she told V.F. "But I needed to be sure it wouldn't jeopardize all the work Id been putting in, that it wouldn't ruin everything. And the Bond women have always been, for me at least, unrelatable."

Craig, aka James Bond, starred with de Armas in Bladerunner 2049, and he's also in No Time to Die with her. She seems to have a real supporter in him.

"I should always be so lucky to work with a woman like that," he told V.F. "This is a movie where there's a lot of shit going on, a lot of big acting, myself very much included, but she shines through because shes the real deal. She's got very good comic timing and we're not offering her a huge part. But she came in and just nailed it. She had very little to go on, the scripts are being rewritten, youre changing things all the time or throwing them at her, and shes not fazed by it."

De Armas, a Cuban woman, knows how huge it is to play the famous blonde bombshell. She told V.F. that as soon as she auditioned for the role, it was hers:

"I only had to audition for Marilyn once and Andrew said 'It's you,' but I had to audition for everyone else. The producers. The money people. I always have people I needed to convince. But I knew I could do it. Playing Marilyn was groundbreaking. A Cuban playing Marilyn Monroe. I wanted it so badly."