Ana de Armas says her ‘life is about being in the right place at the right time’

Ana de Armas attributed her success as an emerging leading lady to being in the ‘right place at the right time’ in a newly released interview with The Sunday Times Style.

As the 32-year-old Golden Globe nominee pondered how she became a household name after starring in 2019’s Knives Out and Blade Runner 2049 nearly four years ago, she said networking with the ‘right people’ made her ‘a bit’ her life. used to be.

She also seemed to nod to fatally meeting her ex-boyfriend Ben Affleck on the set of their upcoming psychological thriller, Deep Water.

During the interview, taken prior to the end of their nearly year-long romance with the 48-year-old Oscar winner this month, the actress made some rare comments about Affleck.

While discussing his choice to wear some t-shirts with Spanish phrases, she noted that she also owns a few from the popular Cuban brand Clandestina.

‘Ben has become obsessed with them,’ she gushed about her former costar’s affinity with the slogan tees. “Every time we go, he buys the whole store.”

When the publication attempted to get back with the Cuban-born beauty about her altered relationship status, her rep simply told the magazine, “We don’t have any information to share.”

During the chat, she also revealed that it took a lot of work to perfect Marilyn Monroe’s signature breathing voice for her role in the upcoming movie Blonde.

“It only took me nine months of dialect coaching and practice, and some ADR sessions,” she said. ‘It was a severe torture, so exhausting. My brain was fried. ‘

She also pointed out that women in Hollywood still face many of the same challenges as their “ 1930s, 1940s and 1950s predecessors. ”

“If you don’t have a strong foundation, with your family and so on, it’s really hard to get by – very hard,” she stressed.

In addition, she related that she left Cuba as a teenager with about $ 355 in her pocket.

‘In Cuba you live in a bubble. I didn’t know what the world looked like. I had never traveled in my life, ”she thought.

She added, ‘I think – and I mean it in the best possible way – being ignorant of some things can help you because you don’t have any fear whatsoever. I just went and did. ‘

‘If I had to do it now, knowing what it is like and what I had to go through, I’d be scared. But I’m glad I did. I haven’t thought about it twice, ”the star noted.

Despite the end of Ana and Ben’s romantic relationship – with the actress being the person who quits it – “ the former flames still talk regularly, ” the People source reported.

“The friendship between Ben and Ana has not ended yet,” the insider revealed.

Since their split, the father of three has been spending ‘a lot’ of time with his kids and ‘continues to work on himself,’ the source said.

Ana did not want to live in Los Angeles full-time, which is Ben’s home base because of his children and ex-wife Jennifer Garner.