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‘You were excellent,’ James Bond tells Paloma at the end of her scene-stealing sequence in No Time To Die, and Ana de Armas, the charismatic Cuban star who played her, has been excellent in everything we’ve seen her in, even when the project itself hasn’t been great. Playing Marilyn Monroe, de Armas (above) is extraordinary as the iconic, tragic film star who wanted to be taken seriously as an actress but who was generally cast on the basis of her voluptuous sex-bomb looks and was used and abused by the men in her life. Lily Fisher plays the young Marilyn Monroe, or rather Norma Jeane Mortenson, her real name, being raised by a mentally ill mother. From Wednesday