![]() Note that when Walt Thrombey goes to Marta's apartment to subtly threaten Marta, it is her mother's illegal status that he mentions, not Marta's or Marta's sister's. The key irony to the entire running gag about Marta's nationality is that she is as American as any of the Thrombeys. Marta is from the United States of America "Inside the Creation of Knives Out, One of the Most Unexpectedly Subversive Films of the Year" - Time (emphasis mine) “ It’s so brilliant and true: people try to guess all the time where I’m from,” she said. Offscreen, she even was given some creative license: She says that the running joke in which various Thrombeys incorrectly state the country she’s from-is it Ecuador, Paraguay, Uruguay or Brazil?- was punched up on her suggestion. Onscreen, da Armas inhabits Marta as she is first infantilized, then villainized, then becomes the hero she rises to the challenge in both forming an equal partnership with the man who plays James Bond (Craig) and fiercely battling the man who plays Captain America (Evans). NPR (emphasis mine)Īna de Armas suggested the idea of the "running joke in which various Thrombeys incorrectly state the country she’s from." Why Ana De Armas Was Hesitant To Take A Role In 'Knives Out'. And so I insisted a lot - there was a little back-and-forth with the producers and asking for the script. And to me, those three words didn't mean anything because it usually - we are represented as that, the help or the criminal or someone like that. And the description - I didn't like it because it was something like caretaker, Latina, pretty. Marta's country of origin was also not specified in the script.Īna de Armas: Well, at first, I just got a - you know, a single page with a very small description and just one scene so I couldn't really see what it was about. ![]() According to Ana de Armas, who played Marta, Marta was just described as "Latina" with no indication of which country she was from. ![]() Keeping it a mystery highlights the Thrombeys' ignorance of where Marta is from. It was deliberately made vague which country Marta is from to keep people guessing all the time.
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