The actor looks back on the emotional journey of portraying Cassian Andor’s ally and bringing her full-circle this season with a decisive victory against the Empire and a heartbreaking choice.
By Ethan Sacks
As the start of filming on Andor Season 2 neared, actor Adria Arjona struggled to find her way back into the right headspace to return as Bix Caleen.
Reprising a role for a second season of a television series was a career first for Arjona, and the enormous expectations after the popularity and critical acclaim of Andor’s first season brought enormous pressure. Acting opposite scene partners Diego Luna (who stars as Cassian Andor) and Stellan Skarsgård (who plays Luthen Rael) required matching serious intensity as would the storylines delivered by creator and executive producer Tony Gilroy and his writers involving Bix’s psychological trauma after torture at the hands of an Imperial interrogator. Arjona would have to channel painful emotions.
“There’s no way really to prepare yourself other than just diving in head first and trusting in Tony’s writing,” Arjona tells StarWars.com. “Really putting yourself in Bix’s shoes, through all that Bix has gone through. It’s a challenge.”
So Arjona put herself in those shoes quite literally.
“I asked [production] to lend me her boots, so I borrowed those boots, walked around [the studio] in them and I tried to find her again,” she says.
Arjona also returned to the exact perfume she wore in Season 1 to trigger memories of what it felt like to embody the mechanic-turned-fugitive. “The second I sprayed it, I was back to Bix,” she added. “I sounded like her. I was walking a little bit like her.”
That walk and those boots took her down a dark path for the new season of Andor, with Season 2…
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I Think Adria Arjona would be great choice as White Tiger/Hector Ayala in MCU