Ana de Armas’ Fans File Lawsuit After She Was Cut From ‘Yesterday’

Not happy. After a pair of followers rented Yesterday, anticipating to see Ana de Armas after she appeared within the trailer, they had been dissatisfied that her scenes weren’t within the ultimate minimize of the movie.

Amid their discouragement, the people filed a class-action lawsuit towards the movie studio on Friday, January 21. They claimed that they every paid $3.99 to hire the movie — which was launched in June 2019 — on Amazon Prime after seeing the Knives Out actress, 33, within the trailer. After the film concluded, they found that the Cuba native’s scenes had been eliminated.

Per the court docket docs, obtained by Us Weekly, the duo are suing for $5 million in damages on behalf of affected shoppers after alleging that the defendant (Common Studios) launched “false, misleading and deceptive promoting” for the manufacturing.

“As a result of shoppers had been promised a film with Ana De Armas by the trailer for Yesterday however didn’t obtain a film with any look of Ana de Armas in any respect, such shoppers weren’t supplied with any worth for his or her rental or buy,” the criticism learn.

The go well with named de Armas as “a proficient, profitable, and well-known actress” and claimed that her fame was the only approach the film was marketed.

“The principal actors within the film Yesterday had been largely unknown earlier than the movie was launched,” their criticism learn. “For instance, the actor which performed protagonist Malik, Himesh Patel, had by no means acted or starred in a movie previous to Yesterday. Equally, the actress who performed Ellie, Lily James, was a comparatively unknown title to the informal film watcher. Consequently, as a result of not one of the Yesterday movie leads had been well-known, Defendant couldn’t depend on their fame to advertise the film to entice viewership.”

Yesterday stars Patel as Jack Malik, an English songwriter who — after a supernatural interference — is the one one who remembers The Beatles. Whereas attempting to get his family members to recall the band’s chart-topping hits, he finally ends up propelling to stardom when he took credit score for his or her songs.

De Armas was slated to seem as Malik’s love curiosity, Roxanne, and was included within the movie’s trailer and a deleted scene. Within the clip, the twosome met backstage at The Late Late Present With James Corden and shortly hit it off. Nonetheless, take a look at audiences weren’t happy by the love triangle between them and Malik’s childhood pal Ellie, performed by James.

“That was a really traumatic minimize as a result of she was good in it. I imply actually radiant. And [that] turned out to be the issue,” screenwriter Richard Curtis recalled to CinemaBlend in June 2019. “I feel the viewers likes the story [about Ellie and Jack] and goes with that, and it really works out nicely. What we’d initially accomplished was had, I don’t wish to describe it an excessive amount of, however had Ana de Armas as a complicating issue when he arrived in L.A. for the primary time.”

Curtis, 65, defined on the time: “I feel the viewers didn’t like the truth that his eyes even strayed. As a result of then some folks would go, ‘Oh, he actually doesn’t deserve her. He actually doesn’t deserve Lily.’ You realize, it’s a type of issues the place it’s a few of our favourite scenes from the movie, however we needed to minimize them for the sake of the entire.”

Neither Common nor the No Time to Die actress have publicly addressed the lawsuit.

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