Ana de Armas is no stranger to the action genre.

She had a memorable scene-stealing role opposite Daniel Craig in the 2021 James Bond film and flexed her action muscles a few years later alongside Chris Evans in . So after having a ball making those two films, the 37-year-old Cuban actress wanted to try something even more involved.

And it turns out leading , a female-fronted spinoff set in Keanu Reeves’ John Wick cinematic universe , checked all the right boxes.

“As soon as I read the script, I saw the story and I saw the character and how much heart there is in her,” de Armas tells Postmedia in a video interview from New York City.

Set during the events of , Ballerina casts de Armas as the deadly Eve Macarro, an assassin with the Ruska Roma criminal enterprise who seeks t

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