For Ana de Armas, playing Marilyn Monroe was more than just the role of a lifetime. “If you put Marilyn Monroe ‘the movie star’ aside, she’s just an actress trying to navigate life and this system, which is so hard to navigate for anybody,” she tells VF.
After Bond, there was kind of a wave of all these action roles, and that was fun. I chose from the ones that I thought were more exciting or with people I wanted to work with. I feel like-type films. I want to do work with directors and do character work. I have had the opportunity to meet directors that I want to work with. The people that I’m getting access to is changing, and that makes me very excited.
You’ve started producing and getting more involved in the projects you work on—including helping bring on Emerald Fennell as a writer onOnce I get to set to film, I’m an actress and I just want to focus on that, and I want to enjoy that part. But in the making of a film, sometimes the director wants the actors to be involved, but it’s not a given. So having a place as a producer at least guarantees that you have a voice and you are in the conversation.
the director], I said, ‘we need a pass with a female writer,’ and that was great. What I liked about that is they heard what I said, and what I requested was done for all of our benefit. And now we’ve got a really cool script with a female touch and then Len’s side, which is also very smart.I’d like to keep doing exactly what I’m doing. Producing, maybe finding a small story and actually doing a full production of that film. I don’t want to have to jump from job to job to job.
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