{"id":289121,"date":"2020-03-06T15:32:32","date_gmt":"2020-03-06T22:32:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/b1128935"},"modified":"2020-03-06T15:32:32","modified_gmt":"2020-03-06T22:32:32","slug":"ben-affleck-spotted-with-ana-de-armas-in-her-hometown-of-havana-cuba","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/music-news\/ben-affleck-spotted-with-ana-de-armas-in-her-hometown-of-havana-cuba\/","title":{"rendered":"Ben Affleck Spotted With Ana de Armas in Her Hometown of Havana, Cuba"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/akns-images.eonline.com\/eol_images\/Entire_Site\/202026\/rs_600x600-200306135206-600-ben--affleck-ana-de-armas.jpg?fit=around|600:467&amp;crop=600:467;center,top&amp;output-quality=90\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"><\/div>\n<div id=\"photo-txt-0\" data-hook=\"scrollable-block\" readability=\"40.57469342252\">\n<section data-textblock-tracking=\"text-block-photo-text\" readability=\"22.487179487179\">\n<p><strong>Ana de Armas<\/strong> is showing&nbsp;<strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/ben_affleck\">Ben Affleck<\/a><\/strong> the wonders of Cuba.<\/p>\n<p>The two&nbsp;<em>Deep Water&nbsp;<\/em>stars were spotted in Ana&#8217;s hometown of Havana this Thursday, where they&#8217;ve been exploring the sights. Along the way, they&#8217;ve been stopped by multiple fans who are excited to see the&nbsp;<em>Knives Out<\/em> and <em>Good Will Hunting&nbsp;<\/em>stars in person.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>One lucky person named Luz tells E! News she met Ben and Ana in the VIP area of the Cuban Art Factory, a cooking oil factory turned nightclub, art exhibit and restaurant. &#8220;I didn&#8217;t notice them at first. Then I saw them talking with a group of friends,&#8221; Luz shared, before adding, &#8220;They looked like good friends.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Fans have also spotted the duo shopping and visiting other sites in the country&#8217;s capital, including the store Clandestina. The store&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/B9ZmOA9B5DB\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Instagram <\/a>feature a selfie Ben personally took and there&#8217;s also some footage of the&nbsp;<em>Batman<\/em> star speaking Spanish on their story too.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"text-2\" data-hook=\"scrollable-block\" readability=\"50.691056910569\">\n<section data-textblock-tracking=\"text-block-text-only\" data-swiftype-index=\"false\" readability=\"5.2439024390244\">\n<p>Ben<a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/1_AHnUG1tsk\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"> recently revealed<\/a> he learned to speak Spanish at the age of 13 when he was filming a children&#8217;s TV show in Mexico.&nbsp;Since then, his knowledge of the language has waned slightly, but he told&nbsp;<strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/kelly_clarkson\">Kelly Clarkson<\/a><\/strong>he&#8217;s still able to speak &#8220;passively.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"video-int-txt-3\" data-hook=\"scrollable-block\" readability=\"38.728222996516\">\n<section data-textblock-tracking=\"text-block-video-text\" data-swiftype-index=\"false\" readability=\"17.87456445993\">\n<p>Perhaps Ana is helping Ben improve his knowledge of the Spanish language. He did mention he&#8217;s taking classes to keep up with his daughter, <strong>Violet<\/strong>, who is rapidly learning the language at school. &#8220;I was like, \u2018Nope. This is not happening,'&#8221; he jokingly shared with <em>The Voice<\/em> host. &#8220;I don&#8217;t mind that I can&#8217;t do your math homework when you&#8217;re 14 years old, but you are not going to be better at Spanish than me. So I&#8217;ve decided now I gotta take classes; I gotta do something to keep up.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>That being said, this isn&#8217;t the first time Ben and Ana have been seen socializing outside of the context of work. While&nbsp;filming their new movie&nbsp;<em>Deep Water&nbsp;<\/em>in New Orleans, the celebrity pair were frequently seen spending time together off-set. One social media user <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/procreativemind\/status\/1218801130727034880?s=20\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">shared<\/a>, &#8220;Ben Affleck right behind me spitting game to Ana de Armas in Spanish all night long is a vibe.&#8221;&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"tune-in-4\" data-hook=\"scrollable-block\" readability=\"32\">\n<p class=\"tune-in__text\" data-swiftype-index=\"false\">Watch <i>E! News<\/i> weekday mornings at 7 a.m.!<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/1128935\/ben-affleck-spotted-with-ana-de-armas-in-her-hometown-of-havana-cuba?cmpid=rss-000000-rssfeed-365-topstories&#038;utm_source=eonline&#038;utm_medium=rssfeeds&#038;utm_campaign=rss_topstories\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">via:: E! Online<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ana de Armas is showing&nbsp;Ben Affleck the wonders of Cuba. The two&nbsp;Deep Water&nbsp;stars were spotted in Ana&#8217;s hometown of Havana this Thursday, where they&#8217;ve been exploring the sights. Along the way, they&#8217;ve been stopped by multiple fans who are excited to see the&nbsp;Knives Out and Good Will Hunting&nbsp;stars in person.&nbsp; One lucky person named Luz [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[55],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-289121","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-music-news"],"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-09-27 10:32:52","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KIDN - The Lift FM","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/289121","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=289121"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/289121\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=289121"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=289121"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=289121"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}