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- Ana de Armas acknowledged that she’s working with Tom Cruise on future film projects
- The Ballerina star called Cruise and directors Doug Liman and Christopher McQuarrie “so lovely and a great team”
- Training and working with the Mission: Impossible actor on “a couple other things” is “so much fun,” de Armas added
Ana de Armas is “obviously” enjoying time with future costar Tom Cruise.
In an interview with Women’s Wear Daily published Thursday, May 22, the Ballerina actress, 37, confirmed that her many sightings with the Top Gun actor, 62, involve “working on something with [directors] Doug Liman and Christopher McQuarrie,” Cruise’s regular action film collaborators.
“Obviously, everyone knows I’m working with Tom Cruise,” de Armas acknowledged.
Liman (who directed Cruse in 2014’s Edge of Tomorrow and 2017’s American Made) and McQuarrie (writer-director of several Mission: Impossible films including the new Final Reckoning) “are unbelievable at everything they do. And they’re so lovely and a great team, and the process we’re having is amazing,” she said.
“And of course I’m doing crazy training, as you do when you’re working with Tom,” added the Cuban actress. “It’s another level that just keeps setting the bar higher and higher. But it’s so much fun.”
In addition to “working on that thing that we’re training for,” de Armas teased there are “also a couple other things too” on her and Cruise’s plates. “We just got excited.”
The Oscar-nominated Blonde star leads John Wick spinoff Ballerina opposite franchise lead Keanu Reeves. In the lead-up to promoting that film, she has been spotted with Cruise in London at dinners, walks in the park and even on helicopter rides piloted by the action star himself.
The two actors, a source has told PEOPLE, have nothing romantic going on. When they were first spotted on a night out in February, the insider said they were at dinner with their agents “discussing potential collaborations down the line.”
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In her WWD interview, de Armas reflected on working with Reeves, another action legend. Accepting a role in the John Wick franchise “was a big deal,” she said. “As much action as there was on the page, I could see the heart too.”
Her character, assassin Eve Macarro, “has such a beautiful journey,” the Knives Out star added. “The emotionality of the character is so important in the film, I was just like, ‘oh, I have to do this.’ ”
Cruise’s Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning, that franchise’s eighth installment, is in theaters now. From the World of John Wick: Ballerina is in theaters June 6.
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