Ana de Armas is already an international star. She has been working in the mecca of cinema for a long time, but her Oscar nomination for Blonde definitively established her. Even so, she does not forget her roots and she does everything possible not to lose contact with Cuba, the land where she was born 36 years ago and where she trained as an actress. There she maintains good friends and in her recent visit she has returned to the National School of Art in Havana, where she studied more than two decades ago, as shown in the images that she has shared with a colleague with whom she has met. refound.
“22 years have passed… Our school,” Claudia Muma wrote along with some photographs in which she appears with her friend Ana de Armas in the center’s facilities. Claudia, who is today deputy director of the children’s theater company La Colmenita, studied with the star of El Internado at this school, which is popularly called ‘The Worm’, probably because of its particular wavy shape. The two companions have managed to maintain their friendship over the years since they have also been together celebrating Ana’s birthday on April 30 and in February, coinciding with her previous visit to the island.
The Hollywood star has long made an effort to spend time in Cuba with his family, even though the filming schedule can sometimes be particularly demanding. “I’m missing out on a lot of things about my family and my friends and I don’t want that to continue happening to me,” he said a few years ago in La Vanguardia and, indeed, everything indicates that he has remedied this situation. She often travels alone, but she has also been seen with her boyfriend, Paul Boukadakis, to whom she proudly showed off her island in April last year, when she starred in another emotional reunion with Claudia Muma.
Ana de Armas grew up with her parents, Ramón de Armas and Ana Caso, and her brother Javier in Santa Cruz del Norte (Havana). The movie bug caught her at the age of 12 when she saw the movie Matilda at a neighbor’s house since they didn’t have a player at hers. Only two years later she enrolled in the National School of Art and at 16 she landed her first role in the film A Rose from France. She was her first cinematic success and the push she needed to cross the pond when she had barely come of age. Upon arriving in Spain, her role in El Internado gave her popularity and more than one recognition during the seven seasons it lasted.
In 2013 she crossed the ocean again, this time heading to Los Angeles with many dreams and more courage since she barely knew English. It was not an impediment at all. It didn’t take long for War Dogs to arrive with Bradley Cooper, Knock Knock with Keanu Reeves or Blade Runner 2049 with Ryan Gosling. “The scenes were written for American actresses, but when they saw the audition they changed their minds and made the script work for me,” she told Nexos Magazine. After many more titles, the opportunity to get into the shoes of Marilyn Monroe was the greatest challenge of her life. We are no longer talking about a role adapted to a Latin actress, but rather about giving life to a true American icon. Thus Ana became the blonde ambition and the world and the Hollywood academy were surrendered to her interpretation.
Ana de Armas has achieved glory, but she has not taken her eyes off the island from which she left when she was 18 years old and had 200 euros in her pocket. Now filming has just finished on Eden, a suspense film directed by Ron Howard – winner of two Oscars for his work on the film A Beautiful Mind, in which he shares a cast with Sidney Sweeney, Jude Law, Daniel Brülh and Vannesa Kirby among others.
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