'I'd be raising chickens': 'Blonde' star Ana de Armas feared END of her career if she didn't nail performance

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While speaking in a conversation with Eddie Redmayne for Variety’s Actors on Actors series, the 34-year-old star revealed that she constantly questioned Andrew Dominik’s decision for choosing a ‘Cuban woman’ to portray Monroe. A few moments later, she also admitted that her career would have ended if she wouldn’t have been able to do justice to the role.

“It was not supposed to happen. It is one of these roles that you think about, but that’s not going to be you. Not in the cinema, at least. In theater, sometimes you get to play parts that are very far from who you are. o for me, getting this role was a very personal challenge. It was an opportunity for me to prove to myself what I could do, and what my limitations were. And it was a big risk, because I knew, ‘Oh my gosh, if I don’t get this one right, this is over,’” Armas said during the conversation.

The actor joked that she has already thought about what she would have done if her career had ended after the movie and it was not something that we expected. She added, “I’ll be raising cows and chickens in the countryside. I’ll be doing something else. I will never work again.”

Even though the movie received mixed reviews, the performance given by Armas received universal acclaim. The way she transformed from Norma Jean, a traumatized woman, to the enigmatic Marilyn Monroe by putting aside her pain was ridiculously good. It wasn’t Armas to play a character that has a lot of history and was abused by a lot of men in her life. But she was ready to take the challenge and passed it with flying colors.

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