Two fans filed a federal class action lawsuit alleging they were duped into
renting the 2019 film Yesterday because Ana de Armas appeared in the trailer. Conor Woulfe, 38, of Maryland, and Peter Michael Rosza, 44, of San Diego County, Calif., say they each paid $3.99 to rent the movie on Amazon Prime, only to discover that Ana de Armas was removed from the final cut of the film.
The suit accuses Universal of engaging in deceptive marketing, and seeks
to recoup at least $5 million on behalf of affected consumers. “Because
consumers were promised a movie with Ana De Armas by the trailer for Yesterday, but did not receive a movie with any appearance of Ana de Armas at all, such consumers were not
provided with any value for their rental or purchase,” the lawsuit states.
Yesterday stars Himesh Patel as Jack Malik, a singer-songwriter who, through a supernatural occurrence, is the only person on Earth who remembers the Beatles. Malik rockets to stardom by claiming credit for their songs. De Armas was to appear as Roxane, a love interest who is introduced to Malik on the set of James Corden’s talk show.
