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Ana de Armas candidly talks about Keanu Reeves amid Tom Cruise split<\/p>\n
Ana de Armas traced her path from Cuba to Hollywood.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n
During an In Conversation\u00a0session at the Red Sea International Film Festival on Friday, the actress talks openly about her long friendship with Keanu Reeves and her unexpected shift into action films.<\/p>\n
De Armas recalled meeting Reeves shortly after arriving in Los Angeles for her first U.S. film, Knock Knock. \u201cWhen I first moved to L.A., we did Knock Knock together, and at that time I barely spoke English,\u201d she said.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cWe bonded really well, and we have a beautiful friendship.\u201d She described Reeves as \u201cincredibly kind and generous,\u201d adding that reuniting on Ballerina \u201cfelt full circle\u2026 having him there, supporting me ten years later, meant a lot.\u201d<\/p>\n
Her action career, she said, grew unexpectedly. \u201cI never thought of myself as athletic or imagined I\u2019d do action movies,\u201d she noted, citing No Time to Die, The Gray Man, Ghosted and Ballerina as milestones. The training, she admitted, was grueling: \u201cIt was exhausting \u2014 but I enjoyed it. I learned so much.\u201d<\/p>\n
De Armas also reflected on her childhood in Cuba \u2014 \u201cI had a very happy childhood\u2026 I always knew I wanted to be an actress. There was no Plan B\u201d \u2014 and her early start in Havana\u2019s theater school before moving to Madrid with only \u201c300 euros.\u201d<\/p>\n
Her Hollywood breakthrough came with Blade Runner 2049, which she called \u201ca dream.\u201d She said No Time to Die marked a turning point: \u201cThose fifteen minutes on screen changed my life.\u201d<\/p>\n
Her Oscar-nominated performance in Blonde was transformative. \u201cIt was the most terrifying thing I\u2019ve ever done, but also the most beautiful\u2026 It changed the way I approach acting.\u201d<\/p>\n
Now, she focuses on seeking roles that challenge her. \u201cSometimes what the industry offers is not what I want to do\u2026 I\u2019m not here to play it safe.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Ana de Armas candidly talks about Keanu Reeves amid Tom Cruise split Ana de Armas traced her path…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":172077,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[430,156,111,139,69],"class_list":["post-172076","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-celebrities","tag-celebrities","tag-entertainment","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/172076","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=172076"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/172076\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/172077"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=172076"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=172076"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=172076"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}