“I started running like a chicken,” confesses Ana de Armas of her hard training for The Gray Man

Keeping up with an action sequencing expert like Chris Evans, better known as Captain America, shouldn’t be an easy task, and the famous Cuban actress Anna d’Armi revealed that starring ‘The gray man’on Netflix, it was a big challenge due to the hard training he went through to make the explosive sequences.

On July 22, the film ‘The Gray Man’ was premiered on Netflix, one of the most anticipated productions of the year and most expensive in the history of the streaming platform, which among other things was very well received by the public. and in addition to having a first-rate cast, there is also the famous Ana de Armas, who returns to action as in ‘There is no time to die’.

In a press conference, Ana de Armas talked about her training experience for this new action film directed by the Russo brothers, “I was very lucky to have Chili Palmer to train me in the military side of the character, the mentality of that and have the physical experience to endure the pain of shooting and running with gun weight.“.

At first I started running like a chicken with this vest around me, I didn’t know how to move, squat or do anything, ”he laughs.

Ana de Armas is poised to become Marilyn Monroe in ‘Blonde’, also from Netflixbut before donning the blonde wig and iconic white dress, the Cuban actress completely immersed herself in the arduous military training to star in ‘The Gray Man’: “I really enjoyed the process. This pre-production was a lot of fun for me because I saw myself improving“.

Of course this doesn’t mean he didn’t want to work on this new action moviebecause at the conference he confessed that he was enthusiastic about acting from the beginning: “I was very, very excited that the Russos were thinking of me and as soon as I got the Zoom call with them and they introduced me to this character and the story, I agreed.“.

Ana de Armas has no plans to become an action movie actress

In ‘The Gray Man’, Ana de Armas surprises with an intense character who enters the action as rarely seen on screen, and this isn’t the first time the actress has starred in this type of sequence, but curiously she revealed that he does not want to be considered such an expert as in the case of Tom Cruise.

In an interview for ELLEthe Cuban said she would never have imagined being an action film actress “It wasn’t my thing, but offers began to arrive“. And although her gender has welcomed her very well, the truth is that Ana de Armas doesn’t want the focus of her career to be in this, because she likes to work on all kinds of stories and she wants to continue. to grow her career.