30th April: Ana de Armas.
“I tried to have a training plan! My preparation for No Time To Die was not as long as I would have liked it to be. I was shooting Blonde, and I had only a few days to train, so I went straight from Blonde to shoot for Bond. I didn’t have the time to actually commit to any kind of diet or workout or training because my schedule just didn’t allow for it.
“Those few days that I did have some training – I had the gun training and learned the choreography for the scenes – were very intense, for sure. It was a short but really intense immersion into the Bond universe, so I quickly transformed into a CIA agent.” – Harpers Bazaar.
However, it has been reported that de Armas was paid $70,000 for her small yet memorable role in the Bond flick. While that’s certainly a lot less than the reported $25 million salary Daniel Craig received, it’s still good money for the exciting role. – Parade . COM
Ana de Armas appears as Paloma in No Time To Die for about twelve minutes, yet her short screen time didn’t stop her from being a highlight in the film with fans continuing to hope for a spinoff film for her character.
The role of Paloma was not in the initial plans for No Time To Die, it was only after director Cary Joji Fukunaga having talked with her, wrote the character into the film mainly because he really wanted her to appear in the film.
She was working on the Marilyn Monroe biopic Blonde at the time and went back and forth between filming it and NTTD. “I did Marilyn, it was very intense. I finished shooting on a Friday, I got on a plane on a Saturday, and I started shooting Bond on Monday. So I just remember being on set like, my first scene and I kind of started whispering [like Marilyn] and Cary was like, “Mmm. No, we’re here now. You’re in this movie now.”
Ana de Armas explained that Paloma is new to her job, having only had three weeks’ training. “The funny thing is that I also had only three weeks training [for the part], so I think I just kept saying it [on-set] so much that Cary was like, ‘Just say it [in the movie]. It’s fine.'” Many Bond fans still hope to see her come back. Will Ana de Armas ever return as Paloma?
Dating Manuel Anido Cuesta a step-son of the president of Cuba, considered a dictator regime. She’s not popular amongst Cubans, right now. She datewd Affleck who was 16 years older, and this guy is 9 years younger so she has range.
5th May John Rhys-Davies
““There is an extraordinary silence in the West,” said Rhys-Davies on Adam Carolla’s podcast posted Monday night. “Basically, Christianity in the Middle East and in Africa is being wiped out — I mean not just ideologically but physically, and people are being enslaved and killed because they are Christians. And your country and my country are doing nothing about it.”
We have lost our moral compass completely, and, unless we find it, we’re going to lose our civilization. I think we’re going to lose Western European Christian civilization, anyway,” said Rhys-Davies. AUGUST 2015, The Hollywood Reporter.
Adele 5th May
Is good friends with EastEnders (1985) actor Sid Owen.
Voted #92 on Ask men’s Top 99 ‘most desirable’ woman of 2012 list.
In a recent interview with TOH!, the director describes how Adele came on board. She was initially hesitant because she wasn’t sure if her trademark personal lyrics would vibe with a Bond theme. Mendes told her, “Just write a personal song. Nobody does it better. Just think in those terms.” He then told her the story of “Skyfall,” so that she’d have narrative reference points.
Adele took the script home with her and couldn’t put it down — she even read it while in the bath. Two months later she sent a music file to Mendes, who says he listened to the track on repeat for hours while driving through the countryside en route from a filming location. He then played it for producer Barbara Brocolli and Daniel Craig, “who both shed a tear, because it’s the first good Bond song.”
8th May Robert Dix
While in New Orleans doing research for a movie about Cajun customs, Dix discovered that Roger Moore, a buddy from his days at MGM, was there filming Live and Let Die (1973). After a night on the town, the 007 star put Dix to work in an uncredited role as an FBI agent who gets knifed and then placed in a casket during a Bourbon Street parade.
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