By the time Ana de Armas arrived on set for the first day of shooting Rian Johnson’s Knives Out, she already had films like Blade Runner 2049, War Dogs and Knock Knock behind her. The Knives Out actor’s co-star Jamie Lee Curtis apparently hasn’t seen any of them. Curtis told Elle magazine as part of de Armas’ new cover story that she mistakenly assumed de Armas had just arrived from Cuba and was new to Hollywood when the two met on the set of “Knives Out.” .
“I assumed — and I say this with real embarrassment — because she had come from Cuba that she had just arrived,” Curtis said. “I made the assumption that she was an inexperienced, unsophisticated young woman. That first day I thought, “Oh, what are your dreams?”
As Elle’s cover story states: “[Curtis] she asked because she was so impressed with de Armas that she wanted to pitch her to Steven Spielberg to play Maria in West Side Story, or to Curtis Magee and Jake Gyllenhaal’s godmothers. She was surprised [de Armas] he already knew Jake. De Armas is also close with Keanu Reeves, her co-star in her first English-language film, Eli Roth’s Knock Knock.’
Curtis added of de Armas, “She’s not as graceful as the ads might lead you to believe. She leans in, interested; talking to her is kind of a give and take. She is curious and asks a lot of questions.”
Given that Curtis’ father, Tony Curtis, once played with Marilyn Monroe, de Armas couldn’t pass up the opportunity long after the end of “Knives Out” to show photos of Curtis transforming into Marilyn for the upcoming drama “Blonde”.
“She showed me a picture of her as Marilyn,” Curtis said. “My dad was in Some Like It Hot and I have lots of pictures of my dad and Marilyn. It was a few still photos and a video of her moving through space without sound. But it was so shocking because she was Marilyn.
Next up for de Armas is the Netflix actioner The Gray Man, which airs on July 22, followed by Blonde on September 23.
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