BOND TO BLONDE
Actress Ana de Armas transforms into blonde bombshell Marilyn Monroe for new biopic
ACTRESS Ana de Armas has a role to dye for — as she transforms into bombshell Marilyn Monroe.
The Cuban brunette, 34, who starred in Bond flick No Time To Die, plays her in new biopic Blonde.
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Out in September, it is the first Netflix-made film to get an adults-only rating.
Actress Marilyn died at 36 in 1962.
Ana de Armas was the breakout star of the last Bond movie.
But in real life the Hollywood actress has been caught up in a spy drama that could have been torn straight from the script of No Time To Die.
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Ana's older brother Javier Caso was interrogated by secret service agents in their home country who accused him of being an American agent — like his sister plays on the big screen.
He is not, but the Stasi-like spooks made menacing references to his “famous” sibling amid suspicions that she was about to speak out against Cuba’s authoritarian regime.
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Then, in November 2020, Javier, Ana and her then boyfriend Ben Affleck flew into the capital Havana on a private jet to see her seriously ill father, according to her brother’s close friend.
Actress Lynn Cruz says there were real fears that New York-based artist Javier would be arrested on arrival.
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