Two viewers ask Universal for five million dollars for having eliminated Ana de Armas from the movie 'Yesterday'

The interpreting profession carries its risks.

One of the most common is what is known in the industry as "cutting room falls."

You get hired for a project and because of the script you've read and the time you spend on the set you presume that you're one of its characters, until on opening day you discover that you don't go out at all.

In the case of the actress Ana de Armas, the thing went further, as far as appearing in the trailer for

2019 British film directed by Danny Boyle, in which Himesh Patel played a singer-songwriter who wakes up after a car accident in a world where no one knows the Beatles and where, luckily for a poor musician about to throw in the towel, he does remember his songs (hence the title). Almost three years after the premiere of the film, two

of the 33-year-old Spanish-Cuban interpreter, immersed since then in an ascending career towards Hollywood stardom, have decided to sue Universal, the film's producer, for having eliminated her from the footage about the March.

Conor Woulfe (a resident of the State of Maryland, 38 years old) and Peter Michael Rosza (resident in the Californian county of San Diego, 44 ​​years old) rented the film on Amazon Prime Video for $3.99 (3.52 euros). They allege that they did so attracted by the presence of De Armas. They went to court when they verified that the trailer offered by the platform was old, and that, after mounting it, the producers of the film decided to dispense with the character, a radiant actress named Roxanne, who was an essential part of the plot until her creators realized that it got in the way of the main character's love story with the smiling Lily Collins. It is not clear if the plaintiffs are such

of the work of the interpreter eliminated from the cartel as of the five million dollars that could be pocketed if the judge agrees with them.

"Given that they were promised a movie with Ana de Armas in the

and that what they got was a film with no trace of the actress, our clients did not get anything of value for what they paid for," it can be read in the lawsuit, which describes the interpreter as “talented, successful and famous”, and offers a review of her international filmography

Beyond the anecdote of the case or the chances of success of the lawsuit, it speaks of the very American taste for settling disputes before a judge with astronomical amounts of money as the first step in the conversation. It is also an artistically dangerous trend that, recalls Variety, the film magazine that broke the news, opened the lawsuit in 2011 filed in a Michigan court by a viewer who was disappointed to find that

by Nicolas Winding Refn, was not what I wasn't expecting (a high-powered chase flick) but rather a tortured drama about a lone for-hire driver who's no longer one when the right girl (Carey Mulligan) cuts in front of his headlights.

Be that as it may, cases like the elimination of Ana de Armas are common currency in the cinema.

Terrence Malick's actors know this especially well.

The contemplative film director

used to quoting more stars on the set than he will later need on screen.

Adrien Brody, for example, went to the premiere of

convinced that he would get all eyes on a story in which he barely scratched a few sequences.

Although the palm probably goes to

also from Malick: Rachel Weisz, Jessica Chastain, Michael Sheen, Amanda Peet, Barry Pepper and Michael Shannon all worked on the film.

They all ended up down in the editing room.

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