No Time To Dies Original Ana De Armas Plan Wouldve Killed The Bond Movie

No Time To Die’s Original Ana De Armas Plan Would’ve Killed The Bond Movie

Ana de Arma’s No Time To Die character gained popularity for her charm and chemistry with Bond, but Paloma was barely featured in the original script.

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No Time To Dies Original Ana De Armas Plan Wouldve Killed The Bond Movie

No Time To Die had an original plan for Ana de Armas that would’ve killed the movie. De Armas portrays Paloma in No Time To Die, a supposedly new CIA agent who meets James Bond (Daniel Craig) in Cuba to help him recover a dangerous bioweapon. When the plan goes south, however, de Armas’ character drops the innocent naivety and replaces it with lethal instinct and killer moves.

Despite only having about 10 minutes of screen time, de Armas steals the show, with many viewers even arguing that No Time To Die sets her up as the perfect female Bond. Her mixture of charm, sly humor, and hardcore skills quickly endeared her to audiences and led to complaints that she wasn’t featured more prominently in the film. But as it turns out, de Armas’ character almost had even less time in the spotlight in the original version of No Time To Die.

Practically cutting out Ana de Armas’ Paloma would have killed the movie by removing what was arguably the best 10 minutes of the 163 minute film. Not only is she the most entertaining and likeable character in the movie, but she also helps to elevate the Cuba scenes and strike a healthy balance which avoids falling too much into the kind of Bond villainy that Craig’s era has left behind. The 25th Bond movie dodged a major bullet by fixing the original No Time To Die script, which de Armas’ character barely featured in.

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According to writers who have been involved in the last seven James Bond movies, their first draft only featured Paloma as a contact, never fleshing out her character or giving her the chance to build a dynamic with Bond. It was actually director Cary Joji Fukunaga who pushed for de Armas’ character to become more involved with the mission and led to the fantastic chemistry that she develops with the international man of mystery. It’s thanks to Fukunaga that de Armas was able to give audiences perhaps the most compelling performance of the entire film with the Cuba sequence.

Leaving Paloma out of the movie would’ve also hindered the film’s effectiveness in another key way. De Armas’ No Time To Die role not only brings charm and appeal to her scenes, but she also helps to break up some tired Bond movie tropes. If the initial script only featured her as a contact, then she likely would’ve been just another pretty woman that Bond flirts with and then leaves, but her inclusion in the mission allows her to step into a more empowering light, matching Bond’s capabilities in a fight and even capturing the fleeing scientist herself. Her presence also avoids the typical Bond villain encounter in which 007 enters the bad guy’s lair alone and without a plan, and shows that even James Bond can use a bit of help sometimes.

Giving Paloma a small, throwaway role in No Time To Die would’ve killed the movie, but the mistake was thankfully avoided. Unfortunately, de Armas’ return in Bond 26 looks increasingly unlikely as the Cuban/Spanish actor is in talks with a number of other projects including the John Wick spinoff, Ballerina. Whatever happens with de Armas’ future in the Bond universe, audiences should be grateful that they got to see as much of No Time To Die’s Paloma as they did.

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