Most of the actors are gradually gaining experience, they are gradually recognized by the audience. And some instantly take off into the starry sky and stay there for a long time - like the Guatemalan actress Adria Arjona. She made her debut in the TV series "True Detective" and immediately received recognition from viewers and critics.
After this work, she had other significant roles, but the first appearance on the set, as a rule, is remembered forever.
Biography
Adria Arjona was born in 1992 in Puerto Rico. However, she cannot say exactly where she spent her childhood, because their family traveled a lot. And also she early learned the backstage life of the musical beau monde - after all, her father was a celebrity. Everyone in Latin America knew her father's name, Ricardo Archona. He often went on tour, and Adria and her mother were with him. They could be in Guatemala in the morning, and in Mexico City in the evening, and that was the norm.
When it was time for Adria to move to high school, their family settled in Miami. Even then, the girl had a dream: to become an actress. And how could it be otherwise, when classical music sounded at home all the time, guests read poetry and sang songs, talked a lot about art and the role of man in creativity? It was not a house, but a real educational institution for an aspiring artist, and her childish mind eagerly absorbed everything.
After graduating from high school, Adria went to New York to study as an actress in acting classes. For a provincial girl, this period of life was a real test, but she withstood it and became stronger in spirit. Here she received a good survival school and then moved to Los Angeles.
Career as an actress
The first works of Archona in cinema can hardly be called serious: these are roles in the short film "Loss", the series "Remember everything" and "In sight".
And on the screens at this time is the stunning TV series "True Detective" (2014- …). Adria watched it and dreamed of getting into the team of actors who starred there. She talked about this with her manager, but he told her not to think about it - experience is not enough.
Adria still really wanted to get into the project, and fate went to meet her. Once the girl went to the casting for another series, but the producer of "True Detective" saw her and sent her to audition in another studio. It is not enough to say that the actress was worried - she was literally shaking with fear. She was not ready, did not know how to behave. And then she decided that she would remain herself - the way she was, because there was nothing else left. And she was taken into the project!
Being on the same set with Colin Farrell, Matthew McConaughey, Taylor Kitsch, Rachel McAdams and other great actors - what could be better? You might think that this is very responsible and can cause fear of failure, but Adria later said that among such people you yourself become better and more professional, because they set the tone in everything and keep the bar high.
Moreover, director Nick Pizzolatto knows how to make the actors friends, so they really become a team.
However, there were also difficult moments. No one looked at the fact that Adria is an aspiring actress. If it was necessary to do something, then she did it, and that was all. And then one day she needed to portray how she seduces the hero of Taylor Kitsch. It was necessary to show passion, sexuality in a situation when several cameras are aimed at you, and people crowd around the site. This was perhaps the most difficult moment during all the filming. However, Archona managed, and no one even noticed how difficult this scene was for her.
After this work, the actress had a sabbatical, sometimes interrupted by small roles. And then luck smiled at her: she was taken on the role of Dorothy in the project "Emerald City" (2016-2017). She also got into this series "with adventures": at first she did not want to go to the casting, because she thought that the Latin American would not be suitable for this role. And then she decided to go, just in case, and became a participant in the project: she was approved for the role of the adult Dorothy Gale.
Later, Adria said that she was wrong when she thought that she was not suitable for this role. On the contrary, they are very similar to Dorothy. After all, the actress spent her entire childhood on endless trips, constantly meeting new people and learning to understand and accept them. She got acquainted with new customs, new cultures and absorbed all this into herself. Therefore, the connection between Adria and Dorothy was felt throughout the filming.
It was especially vividly felt when the actress recalled her move to New York and the confusion in front of this monster, which lived, breathed and moved like a huge monster that could devour you at any moment.
After the release of the series, Archona became truly famous. She has her own fans who create fan clubs in social networks. She is interviewed by magazines and put her photo on the covers.
The portfolio of the actress also includes full-length films. For example, the action movie Pacific Rim (2018) and the thriller Triple Frontier (2019).
Personal life
Archona willingly gives interviews in which she is asked about work. But as soon as it comes to personal, it instantly closes.
It is known that so far there is no one close to her. And it is not known if there will be someone in her heart anytime soon. Andrea has a very peculiar "attitude towards relationships": she believes that a man should guess whether she likes him or not.
And she gave a little hint: if she likes someone, she pretends to be an impregnable fortress. Let's hope that someone will decide to take this fortress by storm.
