From Bond to Blonde

Things could have gone very differently had Ana de Armas gone with her original suspicions about a role that was offered to her and called for a “pretty Latin caretaker”… that description did not grab the Cuban-born actor, who was being touted for the part of nurse Marta in Rian Johnson’s murder-mystery movie Knives Out. In fact, her initial reaction was to turn down the role.

“Because of the character description, my imagination immediately went to a portrayal that was not necessarily very positive or exciting in relation to Latin culture,” she says.

However, once de Armas got her hands on