'Knives Out' Star Ana de Armas Originally Turned Down Her Audition for This Reason
Ana de Armas might not be most well-known star in the movie Knives Out, but she plays the central character in the new murder mystery… though she almost didn’t audition for the film!
The 31-year-old actress turned down an audition for the Rian Johnson movie because the character description for Marta simply said, “pretty Latina caretaker.”
“I’m like, ‘Latina again, really? No! I am not doing this,’” Ana told THR.
She added in a separate interview, “Getting an email that described the character like that — without any more information or a script attached because it was high-profile and secret — just really didn’t speak to me. Latinas rarely exist at the center of a film, especially not in the context that we have in this movie. So, because of the character description, my imagination immediately went to a portrayal that was not necessarily very positive or exciting in relation to Latin culture. So, when I finally read the script, I realized that the description didn’t fit at all because Marta is so much more than that.”
The star-studded Knives Out cast also features Daniel Craig, Chris Evans, Jamie Lee Curtis, Don Johnson, Toni Collette, Katherine Langford, Christopher Plummer, and more.
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