Welcome to Pour one! In this series, IndieWire celebrates some of our favorite characters on TV It has come to the end of their driving this season, with the stars playing them.
(The editor’s note: The following interview contains spoilers for the “Andor“Season 2.)
As a long -lasting Star Wars fan, Adria Arjona is still a reverence for her role in “Andor.”
“Rogue One” Prequel series can be named for Diego Luna’s rebellion, but after two seasons it is undeniable that he would not be who he did without Arjonas Bix Caleen.
“When (Showrunner Tony Gilroy) told me how I would share roads with this character, I didn’t take it easy, “Arjona told IndieWire.” It really shook my heart, the fact that I would send on this trip one of my favorite characters and then have an impact on “a new hope.” I just couldn’t believe that I would be part of it, that I would have such an impact in the uprising. ”
The search in question is the final speaking scene of the series, in season 2, section 9. After being low and staying together for several years, Bix and Cassian (Luna) finally feel secure on the Rebellion Home Base in Yavin 4 – so much that he seems to be at risk to give up the fight just to protect and stay with her. At one point, another character says to Bix: “Maybe you are the place he needs to be.” With that insight, Cassian wakes up one day to find Bix away and a video message that she left for him – never says goodbye, but pressed him to continue the fight so they can meet again.
“Everything Bix says is,” Cassian comes back, Cassian comes back, Cassian will find me ” – she has no doubt,” Arjona said. “In the back of her mind she is who,” wherever he is, he is ok, and he comes back. “There is a lot of hope in it, which is heartbreaking because you know the end – but she doesn’t.”
The scene was a unique opportunity not only for Bix to say goodbye to Cassian, but for Arjona to do the same for the audience – directly in the camera.
“The first three take that I did were useless. I couldn’t stop crying,” she remembered. “You can conceptually understand how the arch will be, but to read it and then have to perform was something else.”
“I get paid to deal with my feelings. I get paid to be able to control the way I feel,” she added. “I got in the way of my own job for the first time at work, because I cared so much about Bix and because I care so much about the trip that Cassian must continue. I wanted to do such a good job, and I wanted to nail it, not only for me, but also for the fans, because it really takes up something else.”
But even the first one takes the strengthened Arjona’s connection to the stage and character, which she said that probably also cried through and erased for a while before completing the pictures for Cassian. After that, and when the responsibility for what she did began to fade, Arjona said she dropped “a moment of calm.”
“Star Wars” project comes with heavy security, but Adrona said Gilroy was “gracious enough” to let her read three episodes when she got a role. “I just decided to trust Tony, and I’m so happy that I did, because everything he promised is there on the side,” she said. “I like the fact that she had a huge bow to go through. I love her strength. I love that she is not a victim. She stays really high up and believes in dignity. She is a tough cake.”
Season 2 of “Andor” picks up one year after the end of season 1, with Bix and Cassian separated when they avoid discovery from the empire. The latter visible safety and purpose of merging Bix and the nightmares in her torture, her daily struggle to ward off a predator on the planet Mina-Rau and the trauma that she collects even when the uprising becomes stronger.
“I can’t believe what these characters are going through this season,” Arjona said, noting how huge it is that after her attack in section 3, Bix explicitly says, “he tried to rape me.” She spoke with survivors to prepare for the stage and its effects on the character – “I held them with me that day,” she said about the photography.
“You can’t tell a human story without touching abuse,” Arjona said. “Abuse has existed in our history forever. Abuse of power is just part of us, unfortunately. Telling a story about a rebellion, a story about people who come together and the complexity of it – abuse is part of it, and not to touch it, it would not have told the whole framework for the truth.”
During the years that follow, Bix struggles with abuse and with his own role in the uprising, even when Cassian becomes stronger in his. “Even from the end of season 1, everything she really wants to do is part of the uprising,” Arjona said. “All she wants to do is get better so she can help and be part of this big thing, but she can’t. And there is a lot of shame in it.”
With production and release in her background, Arjona still looks back on Bix and “Andor” with nothing but admiration. She remains in reverence over the character’s “courage, courage, selflessness” and capacity for sacrifice. She has ideas about where the character goes after “Andor” – Cassian’s fate is known, but Bix can be out and fight during the events in “A New Hope”, “Empire strikes back”, “Return of the Jedi,” and then – but nothing she wants to say loudly and put in the universe. “Andor” is all we have of her, even when her heritage ripples through the galaxy.
“When people gather and they trust and everyone has their lane and beats on their own drum in their lane, it works damn,” Arjona said. “That’s what to do the show is, and that’s what the show is about. It’s about people coming together – and it’s beautiful when art imitates life that way.”
“Andor” is now flowing on Disney+.
