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Elle
23-05-2025
- Entertainment
- Elle
See How Adria Arjona Prepped for Louis Vuitton's Cruise 2026 Show
From Cannes to Avignon, Adria Arjona is having a luxuriously fashionable week in the south of France. Fresh off the film festival's red carpet, the Hit Man actress jetted over to the Palais des Papes to attend the Louis Vuitton cruise 2026 show alongside an all-star front row, including Emma Stone, Cate Blanchett, Chloë Grace Moretz, Saoirse Ronan, Shay Mitchell, and more. The evening was filled with medieval delights, from metallic fringe to mirrored boots and brocade jackets galore. Arjona was in awe of the beautiful location and experience. However, amidst the incredible fashion and good food, comfort is always key. For the occasion, the actress donned a beautifully refined knit gray dress accessorized with a black Biker PM top-handle bag and the perfect staple pair of knee-high black boots—not only a chic look for a fashion show but ideal for a plate of pasta with friends and dancing the night away. For glam, Arjona also kept it low-key, emphasizing her natural curls for an editorial yet relaxed look. Before arriving in Avignon, Arjona also made a splash on the Cannes Film Festival red carpet for Highest 2 Lowest. (She was in Cannes to promote her upcoming movie Splitsville, directed by Michael Angelo Covino, which also debuted at the festival.) The actress stepped out in a pistachio-green Louis Vuitton gown that featured a subtle draping detail across the front. Again, she opted for pared-back glam, letting the beauty of the dress and the stunning necklace lead the way. Arjona was all smiles at the event, appearing alongside co-stars Daktoa Johnson and Kyle Marvin.
Yahoo
20-05-2025
- Entertainment
- Yahoo
Adria Arjona discusses her ‘Andor' farewell: ‘There's so much hope in that scene'
Andor. Adria Arjona remembers how she found out that she would be in the final shot of Andor with a baby in tow. Show creator Tony Gilroy broke the news to her almost casually, considering how meticulously detailed and thought-out Andor always seems. More from GoldDerby Jeremy Allen White and Austin Butler team up for 'Enemies,' Maya Hawke joins 'Hunger Games' prequel, 'Smurfs' trailer drops, and more top news Tony Talk: Predicting the tricky musical acting categories including Audra McDonald vs. Nicole Scherzinger 'Gypsy' Tony nominee Joy Woods takes Louise from 'apologetic' to 'powerful' 'He told me in passing, because he's so cool like that,' Arjona says of Gilroy. 'He was like, 'Oh, by the way, kid, the last shot is going to be you.' I was like, 'What? What do you mean? And I'm holding what, a baby? When does Bix get pregnant? Do you see me pregnant? Do you not see me pregnant?' And he was like, 'Relax, kid. Let me write it and I'll send it to you.' So I knew that that was going to happen.' That last scene is Arjona's singular appearance as Bix Caleen in the final three episodes of Andor. When Bix broke up with her hero, Cassian Andor (Diego Luna), via a 'Dear John' video message at the end of Episode 9, it seemed like that was the last viewers would see of her (especially considering the character is not part of Rogue One: A Star Wars Story). Arjona did everything she could to make that breakup message feel emotional and final. 'We filmed it practically, like she would've filmed it,' Arjona tells Gold Derby. 'So I was alone, and Cassian was sleeping, and I would walk from the bedroom and go by the table and start recording, and the first four [takes] were not usable at all.' Arjona continues, 'I'm spilling all my tea, but they weren't usable because I was so emotional. It was the first time in my career that I allowed my emotions to get involved; I am hired because I can control my emotions, you know what I mean? But I couldn't control it. It meant so much to me and I respect and love Rogue One so much that propelling one of your favorite characters into a movie that you love so dearly was something that I couldn't get over until finally I shed that and Bix took over, and it's the scene that you see.' While the breakup message was a hard goodbye, Bix's final scene carries the promise that all the sacrifices will be worth it for the future, a long-running theme of Star Wars. 'I think there's so much hope in that scene,' Arjona says. 'There's something really beautiful that Bix always says throughout this entire season, 'He's going to come back.' She has no doubt in Cassian, and when you don't have any doubt in someone, you inflict so much confidence. That's sort of what Tony Gilroy has been for me in my life. He's never doubted me. He's only inflicted confidence in me, and that's what Bix is for Cassian.' Arjona admits it's bittersweet to say goodbye to Andor after working on it for years, but she hopes to remember everything she learned on the most acclaimed Star Wars show. 'It's going to be tough to top this one,' Arjona says. 'It's been such a beautiful creative team. I got to work with some of the best of the best, from hair and makeup to costumes to production design to directors, writers, and actors. I've learned so much in this show. I mean, it's really been one of my greatest schools. Anywhere I looked, there was a lesson there for me, and I really grew up in this show in many ways over six years. Where I was in my career to where I am now, it's a lot of thanks to the show and to Tony and to Diego who really supported me and believed in me. It is sad to realize that our last episode is coming out. You're just like, 'Oh man, this is it. We gave it our all, and it's all out there.'' Best of GoldDerby 'The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power' star Charlie Vickers breaks down Sauron's emotional reaction to killing Celebrimbor TV directors roundtable: 'Abbott Elementary,' 'Bridget Jones: Mad About the Boy,' 'Cross,' 'The Daily Show,' and 'RuPaul's Drag Race' 'RuPaul's Drag Race' director Nick Murray on the show's 'intense rehearsal time' and Season 17's 'iconic' interview with Liza Minnelli Click here to read the full article.
The Star
18-05-2025
- Entertainment
- The Star
'Andor' has brought untold stories of trauma and humanity to Star Wars
The complex effects of personal trauma have not traditionally been the stuff of sci-fi and fantasy. They tend to get in the way of the quest. Game Of Thrones made a meal of it. Battlestar Galactica tried to consider the effect on survivors of losing a planet of people. But it hasn't fit in the swashbuckling world of Star Wars. How could the mission to destroy the Death Star have quickly concluded if Princess Leia needed to mourn the loss of nearly all her loved ones on Alderaan? Andor changed all that. Coping with inner pain has been a theme throughout its two-season run, which has now come to a close with Disney+ releasing a series-finale trilogy of episodes. It starts with its title character, who is left rootless by the deaths and destruction around him. 'Everything has been taken away from him since day one,' said Diego Luna, who plays Cassian Andor. 'And he has to understand that home is inside. That he can be home. That home can be there. And therefore there's a reason to fight.' The three final episodes take Andor and the rest of the characters up to the events of Rogue One , the 2016 film that spawned the streaming prequel series. Tony Gilroy, who wrote Rogue One and is the show runner for Andor , has loved playing in the Star Wars galaxy, but he's made it clear his real mission is to tell universal stories of the effects of war, revolution and colonisation on human (and occasionally non-human) souls. Nearly every character he's created is ravaged in one way or another, and even the light- hearted moments of the series are fraught with emotional pain. Senator Mon Mothma (O'Reilly, left) has to suppress a lot of emotions in order to complete her duty as a secret rebel. (Spoilers ahead for episodes 1-9 of Season 2.) When Andor goes undercover as a moussed-and-mulleted fashion designer named Varian Skye and makes small talk with a hotel staffer, he learns the man's family was killed in a notorious massacre by Grand Moff Tarkin, the imperial leader who would later order the destruction of Leia's world. And in a widely-memed moment of drunken techno dancing by senator and secret rebel Mon Mothma at her daughter's wedding, she is, as Genevieve O'Reilly who played her said, 'dancing to stop herself from screaming' after tacitly agreeing to have an old friend murdered for the cause. No one on Andor undergoes more trauma than Bix Caleen, played by Adria Arjona. While still dealing with the fallout of being tortured by an imperial doctor in the first season, she is nearly raped early in the second and has been surrounded by death. Arjona said seeing the script was daunting. 'She has to go from PTSD to sort of being addicted to droppers, which help her sleep and get over the nightmares, to then her last final decision,' said Arjona. 'It's a lot. And reading it was incredibly scary.' No one on Andor undergoes more trauma than Bix Caleen, played by Arjona. — Photos: Handout An utterly new for Star Wars set of scenes between Cassian and Bix explore both the explicit and subtle difficulties of intimate relationships amid trauma. Cassian must comfort Bix, but she doesn't want her pain to define her. The two try to take a trip to the neighbourhood bodega, but even that is subsumed by his fear for her. Cassian and Bix also must deal with the difficulty of the lives they take for the cause. Han Solo never mourned the stormtroopers he blasted, but the Andor duo killed a young imperial soldier during a mission and it haunts the home life they're trying to build. 'I can't stop seeing his face,' Bix says. 'It fades,' Cassian replies. 'I want to tell you it goes away forever, but I'd be lying.' 'We're in a war,' he says. 'I wonder if he knew,' she says. 'He knows now,' Cassian says. Bix is among the major characters who won't go on to Rogue One or other existing Star Wars stories. Andor lets her complete her emotional arc with a tear-jerking but well-earned set of scenes. 'The last speech, I still haven't been able to watch it,' she said. 'I was a mess! It took me takes and takes of me absolutely just bawling through that scene until finally it gets to what I believe they used.' The show's revolutionary leaders, just as those in history have done, try to take their followers' trauma, and their own, and use it to drive the movement. Saw Gerrera, the radical rebel played by Forest Whittaker who has a key role (and one less leg) in Rogue One , gave a call-to-arms in a recent episode that is already being celebrated among fans as the 'revolution is not for the sane' speech. The theme: pain as power. He tells a young prospective follower about his youthful enslavement in a brutal imperial work camp, and the toxic leak there of a fuel called rhydo. 'They worked us naked. Two, three hundred men. Boys really. Back and forth until the only thing you could remember was back and forth. Then one day, everyone started to itch. Everyone, all at once. Even the guards. You could feel your skin coming alive,' Saw says, his raspy voice rising. 'It was the rhydo. They had a leak.' He tells the young man, 'We're the rhydo, kid. We're the fuel. We're the thing that explodes when there's too much friction in the air. Let it in, boy! That's freedom calling! Let it in! Let it run! Let it run wild!' – AP Andor is available on Disney+ Hotstar.
Yahoo
13-05-2025
- Entertainment
- Yahoo
Adria Arjona on breaking ‘Star Wars' ground with intense ‘Andor' scenes: ‘I found it really important'
Season 2 of Andor is a real roller-coaster for all its characters. However, Bix Caleen (Adria Arjona) has some harsh ups and downs. On the one hand, Bix is still dealing with the trauma from her brutal torture and interrogation at the hands of Dr. Gorst (Joshua James) in Season 1, as well as new violent attacks from other Imperial officials. But the show doesn't just wallow in her pain; it depicts how she overcomes her troubles through solidarity and empowerment as part of the growing Rebel movement. Though Star Wars is about the struggle against the forces of darkness, it usually sticks to cartoonish portrayals of evil: An old wizard cackling as he shoots lightning out of his fingers, or his minion in black armor with a flaming sword. But below them, as Andor repeatedly shows, are millions of bureaucrats and officials carrying out much more recognizable forms of violence and oppression every day. At the beginning of Season 2, one such figure, Lieutenant Krole (Alex Waldmann), even sexually assaults Bix while carrying out an Imperial census on the planet Mina-Rau. The casualness with which Krole abuses Bix suggests it's an everyday occurrence. However, this time, he pays for it with his life. This represents the first depiction of overt sexual assault in a Star Wars story, and neither Arjona nor Andor creator Tony Gilroy (who wrote the first three episodes of the season himself) took that lightly. More from GoldDerby TV showrunner panel: 'The Better Sister,' 'Deli Boys,' 'Overcompensating,' 'Shifting Gears,' and 'Three Women' 'Three Women' showrunner Laura Eason talks courage, desire, and 'superhero' intimacy coordinators 'Overcompensating' showrunner Scott King on Prime Video comedy: 'There are no heroes or villains - everyone is just a f--ing mess' 'I felt a great honor for being the one to play it right,' Arjona tells Gold Derby. 'I have many friends and family members who are victims, and I felt like this was written in a way that I wish everybody would react. I wish it were really empowering to do the thing we all wish we could do, but we don't know when we're in that moment. It's kind of the reaction that someone has five days after something happens, when they have the perfect thing to say and the perfect reaction. You know what I mean? So that's sort of how I saw it, and that gave me a lot of power.' Arjona continues, 'I really held strong to the people I know who have been through this. I brought them with me, in a way, to the scene. At the end of the day, it's part of our history. This show touches so much on really high themes, and it almost feels like we're trying not to look at the reality of it. But the abusive power happens in a galaxy far, far away; it happens here, in Guatemala, in Europe; it happens all over the world. Sometimes we're blinded to it or don't want to see it because it is really scary. So to perform it, I did not take that lightly, and I really put my heart into that scene. I found it really important.' When Andor started, Bix was just a junkyard dealer on the Outer Rim planet Ferrix. She was trying to get by like everyone else in that hard-scrabble community. Still, anti-Imperial activity intrigued her enough to contact the mysterious Luthen Rael (Stellan Skarsgård). That got her into trouble when the Empire captured her and subjected her to torture. But after joining with her longtime friend Cassian Andor (Diego Luna) and becoming part of the growing Rebellion, Bix learns how to fight back against her oppressors. So in the second block of Season 2 episodes, Bix dovetails her recovery from torture with her work in the Rebellion by finding and killing Dr. Gorst. 'You take it personally. I've really fallen in love with the characters that I've played, and I just wanted Bix to win,' Arjona says. 'I was saying, 'Tony, throw Bix something!' Tony really talked me through her entire arc, but that moment with Dr. Gorst, he didn't. He let me read it, and I did. I read it, and oh man, it was just such a big relief that I had for Bix. I counted the days for us to film that scene.' Throughout both seasons, Andor shows how individuals' choices add to causes greater than themselves, political (like the Rebellion) and personal (like the love that grows between Bix and Cassian). 'As the show progresses, you see the repercussions of everything Dr. Gorst did to her until she has that big moment of revenge and liberation,' Arjona says. 'But as Bix is coming to herself, she's also playing more of a part in the Rebellion, and she wants to be a part of it. That's what takes her out of this whole dark hole, her desperate need to be part of the Rebellion, support Cassian, and be well for Cassian so they can form this beautiful relationship.' The Andor series finale debuts on Tuesday. Best of GoldDerby Filming 'The White Lotus' terrified Sam Nivola more than once TV showrunner panel: 'The Better Sister,' 'Deli Boys,' 'Overcompensating,' 'Shifting Gears,' and 'Three Women' 'Three Women' showrunner Laura Eason talks courage, desire, and 'superhero' intimacy coordinators Click here to read the full article.
12-05-2025
- Entertainment
'Andor' is ending. It brought untold stories of trauma and humanity to 'Star Wars'
LOS ANGELES -- The complex effects of personal trauma have not traditionally been the stuff of sci-fi and fantasy. They tend to get in the way of the quest. 'Game of Thrones' made a meal of it. 'Battlestar Galactica' tried to consider the effect on survivors of losing a planet of people. But it hasn't fit in the swashbuckling world of 'Star Wars.' How could the mission to destroy the Death Star have quickly concluded if Princess Leia needed to mourn the loss of nearly all her loved ones on Alderaan? 'Andor' changed all that. Coping with inner pain has been a theme throughout its two-season run, which comes to a close Tuesday when Disney+ releases a series-finale trilogy of episodes. It starts with its title character, who is left rootless by the deaths and destruction around him. 'Everything has been taken away from him since day one,' Diego Luna, who plays Cassian Andor, said in an interview with The Associated Press. 'And he has to understand that home is inside. That he can be home. That home can be there. And therefore there's a reason to fight." The three final episodes take Andor and the rest of the characters up to the events of 'Rogue One,' the 2016 film that spawned the streaming prequel series. Tony Gilroy, who wrote 'Rogue One' and is the show runner for 'Andor,' has loved playing in the Star Wars galaxy, but he's made it clear his real mission is to tell universal stories of the effects of war, revolution and colonization on human (and occasionally non-human) souls. Nearly every character he's created is ravaged in one way or another, and even the lighthearted moments of the series are fraught with emotional pain. (Spoilers ahead for episodes 1-9 of Season 2.) When Andor goes undercover as a moussed-and-mulleted fashion designer named Varian Skye and makes small talk with a hotel staffer, he learns the man's family was killed in a notorious massacre by Grand Moff Tarkin, the imperial leader who would later order the destruction of Leia's world. And in a widely-memed moment of drunken techno dancing by senator and secret rebel Mon Mothma at her daughter's wedding, she is, as Genevieve O'Reilly who played her said, "dancing to stop herself from screaming" after tacitly agreeing to have an old friend murdered for the cause. No one on 'Andor' undergoes more trauma than Bix Caleen, played by Adria Arjona. While still dealing with the fallout of being tortured by an imperial doctor in the first season, she is nearly raped early in the second and has been surrounded by death. Arjona said seeing the script was daunting. 'She has to go from PTSD to sort of being addicted to droppers, which help her sleep and get over the nightmares, to then her last final decision,' Arjona told the AP. 'It's a lot. And reading it was incredibly scary.' An utterly new for 'Star Wars' set of scenes between Cassian and Bix explore both the explicit and subtle difficulties of intimate relationships amid trauma. Cassian must comfort Bix, but she doesn't want her pain to define her. The two try to take a trip to the neighborhood bodega, but even that is subsumed by his fear for her. Cassian and Bix also must deal with the difficulty of the lives they take for the cause. Han Solo never mourned the stormtroopers he blasted, but the 'Andor' duo killed a young imperial soldier during a mission and it haunts the home life they're trying to build. 'I can't stop seeing his face,' Bix says. 'It fades,' Cassian replies. 'I want to tell you it goes away forever, but I'd be lying.' 'We're in a war,' he says. 'I wonder if he knew,' she says. 'He knows now,' Cassian says. Bix is among the major characters who won't go on to 'Rogue One' or other existing 'Star Wars' stories. 'Andor' lets her complete her emotional arc with a tear-jerking but well-earned set of scenes. 'The last speech, I still haven't been able to watch it,' she told the AP. 'I was a mess! It took me takes and takes of me absolutely just bawling through that scene until finally it gets to what I believe they used.' The show's revolutionary leaders, just as those in history have done, try to take their followers' trauma, and their own, and use it to drive the movement. Saw Gerrera, the radical rebel played by Forest Whittaker who has a key role (and one less leg) in 'Rogue One,' gave a call-to-arms in a recent episode that is already being celebrated among fans as the 'revolution is not for the sane' speech. The theme: pain as power. He tells a young prospective follower about his youthful enslavement in a brutal imperial work camp, and the toxic leak there of a fuel called rhydo. 'They worked us naked. Two, three hundred men. Boys really. Back and forth until the only thing you could remember was back and forth. Then one day, everyone started to itch. Everyone, all at once. Even the guards. You could feel your skin coming alive," Saw says, his raspy voice rising. 'It was the rhydo. They had a leak.' He tells the young man, "We're the rhydo, kid. We're the fuel. We're the thing that explodes when there's too much friction in the air. Let it in, boy! That's freedom calling! Let it in! Let it run! Let it run wild!'
