They thought they were in for a couple of hours enjoying the ‘radiant’ talents of the Cuban-Spanish actress Ana de Armas.
Two Amazon Prime customers who saw her trailer and hired Yesterday’s film were shocked to learn that she didn’t make it into the final cut.
Now they are suing Universal Pictures, claiming the Hollywood studio duped them with deceptive marketing that used De Armas’s ‘fame, radiance and brilliance’ to promote a film in which she did not appear.
Two fans who hired the film Yesterday on Amazon Prime after seeing Cuban-Spanish actress Ana de Armas in the trailer were outraged to discover she did not make the final cut
Yesterday is a romantic comedy that was first released in 2019 and tells the story of a singer-songwriter, who after getting hit by a car, finds out that The Beatles is his only friend. Image: Ana de Armas, 2019 trailer
Conor Woulfe, 38, of Maryland, and Peter Rosza, 44, of San Diego County, California, say they each paid $3.99 (£2.94) to watch the film and are seeking $5million (£3.7million) compensation in a proposed class action on behalf of all affected viewers.
Yesterday was originally released in 2019. It is a romance comedy about a singer-songwriter that is hit by a bus and discovers that the Beatles are his only memory.
De Armas (33) was to appear in Bond’s latest film No Time to Die as a love-interest of Himesh Ptel (31).
Her scenes were cut due to audiences not liking that part of the storyline.
In their complaint filed in California on Friday, the two fans say: ‘Although defendant included the scenes with Ms de Armas in the movie trailer advertisements, for the purposes of promoting Yesterday and enticing film sales and rentals, Ms de Armas is not and was never in the publicly released version of the movie.’
Universal Pictures so far has not commented.