Jamie Lee Curtis Assumed Ana De Armas Was 'Unsophisticated' When They First Met

And as she put it during her conversation with Elle's Marisa Meltzer, "I assumed—and I say this with real embarrassment—because she had come from Cuba, that she had just arrived. I made an assumption that she was an inexperienced, unsophisticated young woman."

But while it's unclear if De Armas thought anything was amiss when Curtis subsequently asked her what her dreams are, she soon made it clear that she was more familiar with the American movie industry than Curtis thought.

She also mentioned a desire to introduce De Armas to her godchildren Maggie and Jake Gyllenhaal only to learn to her surprise that De Armas already knew the younger of the two siblings.

After all, De Armas had already done Blade Runner 2049, War Dogs, and starred alongside Keanu Reeves in Eli Roth's Knock Knock by then.

In her words, "She is not as fancy as maybe the advertisements would have you believe. She leans in, interested; talking to her is kind of give-and-take. She’s curious and asks a lot of questions."

But it wasn't long before De Armas had something to show Curtis that she was sure the veteran actress would be interested in.

And it wasn't lost on De Armas that Curtis' father Tony had starred opposite Monroe in the 1959 comedy Some Like It Hot.

As Curtis said, "She showed me a picture of her as Marilyn. My father was in Some Like It Hot, and I have a lot of photos of my father and Marilyn. It was a couple of still pictures and one video of her moving through space with no audio. But it was so shocking because she was Marilyn."

If there was any doubt that De Armas knew what she was doing by then, it likely died in that moment.

h/t: Elle