Ana de Armas is trying again on how being nominated for an Oscar has affected her profession.

The 37-year-old actress turned the primary Cuban nominated for Greatest Actress on the Oscars in 2023 for her portrayal of Marilyn Monroe within the film Blonde.

Whereas attending the Purple Sea Worldwide Movie Competition this previous week, Ana mirrored on her nomination and shared the way it hasn’t affected the roles she’s supplied.

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“I get it,” she mentioned, through Selection. “A Cuban taking part in Marilyn Monroe may be very unusual. Every week of preparation alone, and my accent was a catastrophe. Lengthy story brief, we managed to persuade the producers that I used to be the precise selection. Andrew [Dominik, director] had been casting that film for 10 years, and he wouldn’t do it with anybody else. It’s the scariest factor I’ve ever achieved. It was an exquisite, scrumptious torture.”

She provides that it hasn’t modified the roles she supplied, noting, “some folks really feel prefer it was a fluke, like someway I did it. There’s nonetheless this sort of feeling of getting to show myself once more someway.”

“However I’ve all the time been the one on the lookout for what I wish to do as an alternative of simply ready for what they’ve to supply,” she added.

Ana additionally recalled how she went from filming Blonde to No Time to Die three days later.

“I completed Blonde on a Friday and began capturing Bond on a Monday. In my first scene within the film, I began speaking like Marilyn,” she mentioned. “I had 48 hours to say goodbye to an enormous character and begin the following one. For those who have a look at Paloma, you may see slightly little bit of Marilyn in it. It was not intentional, however I feel it made her much more particular.”

Nevertheless, she notes she “obtained a number of alternatives” due to the Bond film.

Subsequent up, Ana is starring in Reenactment with Benicio Del Toro and Cameron Diaz.

“I’m gonna do that film in LA with Grant Singer, who’s a director that simply by doing rehearsals and a few work on the script to this point, I really like working with, collaborating with. He’s a really younger director. I feel he’s sensible,” she mentioned, through Deadline.

“Benicio del Toro, who in the event you haven’t seen in One Battle After One other, please go as a result of he’s unbelievable as all the time. So, I’m doing that with him and Cameron Diaz… We’re going to be filming in January,” Ana added.

Particulars on the challenge are unknown, and the actress says, “It’s high secret. They may kill me.”