James Bond: Daniel Craig reveals BIG challenge Ana de Armas overcame on No Time To Die

After starring together in Rian Johnson Whodunnit Knives Out, Daniel Craig and Ana de Armas are teaming up again for the latest James Bond outing. It turns out that the Cuban star’s part was created for her by director Cary Fukunaga and mostly written by Phoebe Waller-Bridge. And now Craig himself has revealed the great challenge his co-star faced in their 007 scenes together on No Time To Die.

Speaking with Vanity Fair, Craig praised de Armas saying: “I should always be so lucky to work with a woman like that.

“This is a movie where there’s a lot of shit going on, a lot of big acting, myself very much included, but she shines through because she’s the real deal.

“She’s got very good comic timing and we’re not offering her a huge part.

“But she came in and just nailed it.”

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It seems Paloma’s role will be a limited one; perhaps exclusively taking place in Cuba. Nevertheless, de Armas’ star quality certainly shines through the trailers and in her character poster where she brandished machine guns.

Talking of script rewrites, one of the Bond screenwriters claims Craig thought that No Time To Die’s original was “very ambitious”.

The claim was made by Robert Wade, who has co-written every 007 movie with Neal Purvis since 1999’s The World Is Not Enough.

The screenwriter gave a talk at the University of Chichester last week and shared some fascinating insights.