Ana de Armas has stated she insisted a feminine author be employed on the forthcoming John Wick spinoff movie Ballerina.
The actor will star because the titular character, a younger lady raised as an murderer who hunts down the hitmen who killed her household.
“It was actually necessary for me to rent a feminine author, as a result of to that time after I acquired concerned within the venture, it was solely the director, Len Wiseman, and one other man,” de Armas instructed Elle. “And I used to be like, ‘That’s not going to work.’”
De Armas defined she interviewed “5 or 6 feminine writers” and ultimately employed Promising Younger Lady director Emerald Fennell to affix the venture, which she stated she “was so happy with”.
On the “conversations” within the US at present concerning ladies’s rights, the actor continued: “I grew up in essentially the most macho-man tradition, and on the similar time, Cuba is simply so free in so many different ways in which typically I’m shocked with the issues that I hear which are nonetheless conversations on this nation. I’m like, ‘We’re nonetheless right here?’”
Ana de Armas will next be playing Marilyn Monroe in Andrew Dominik’s Netflix film Blonde.
A synopsis reads: “Blonde boldly reimagines the lifetime of considered one of Hollywood’s most enduring icons, Marilyn Monroe. From her unstable childhood as Norma Jean, by means of her rise to stardom and romantic entanglements, Blonde blurs the strains of reality and fiction to discover the widening cut up between her private and non-private selves.”
Blonde is launched on Netflix on September 23.
