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Ana de Armas is the kind of actress – the kind of person – people decide they must make room for. For example, her character in the anxiously anticipated 25th film in the James Bond series, No Time to Die, didn’t exist when the director, Cary Joji Fukunaga, offered it to her – he just knew he wanted her in the film. So he wrote a character especially for her. ‘Cary called me to say this character doesn’t exist yet in the script but he kept thinking about me and would write it for me,’ Ana says. And he did – he came up with a kick-ass CIA agent named Paloma, a role the 33-year-old played with aplomb.

Perhaps it’s her determination, her laser-like focus, that people pick up on. ‘People ask “How did you make this choice or that?” But there was only ever one choice,’ says Ana. ‘I’ve never seen