In a Collider Ladies Night interview with Perri Nemiroff, while promoting her latest film Hit Man, Adria Arjona discussed the challenges of playing an aging Bix Caleen in the second/final season of the Disney+ Star Wars: Andor series.
Arjona, who plays Bix Caleen in the Star Wars series, explained how the show’s creator, Tony Gilroy, has crafted a unique and unprecedented narrative structure for the upcoming season. Arjona gushed about Gilroy’s mind for storytelling and praised his unique way of thinking when it came to putting the second half of the story on screen.
“Tony Gilroy is one of the most brilliant minds I have ever had the honor of picking. The structure for Season 2 was one that I’ve never heard anyone do before. It takes a course of time to get to right before Rogue One . He had a whole season to get to the end of Rogue One , and he’s like, ‘How am I going to do it?'”
Arjona confirmed that the unique structure of Season 2 involves significant time jumps between blocks of episodes:
“In between every three episodes, there’s a year, and then there’s three more episodes, then a year, and then three more. So, you’re seeing the evolution of these characters through such a large span of time, and I’ve never done that.”
As Andor moves into its highly anticipated second season, the promise of exploring more of Bix’s evolution and her crucial role in the Rebellion is exciting. Season 2’s unique narrative structure, with its time jumps, is set to showcase how Bix and other characters grow and change in the lead-up to the events of Rogue One. Arjona highlighted the intricate process of portraying subtle changes over time.
“It’s not like you’re aging 10 years, so you can’t even act it to the point where you’ll have prosthetics, or you can’t quite hide behind masks. You’re aging subtly, and I’m a very different person than I was last year, but to many other people, I might not be. So, it was really tricky and interesting to get to those places and find where Bix sort of shifts a little bit.”
Stream the first season of Andor exclusively on Disney+ now, with the second/final season expected in 2025.
