{"id":134348,"date":"2024-06-05T08:59:38","date_gmt":"2024-06-05T15:59:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.castingnetworks.com\/?post_type=news&#038;p=134348"},"modified":"2025-05-09T13:15:30","modified_gmt":"2025-05-09T20:15:30","slug":"acting-up-adria-arjona-keeps-everyone-guessing-with-her-stellar-performance-in-richard-linklaters-hit-man","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.castingnetworks.com\/news\/acting-up-adria-arjona-keeps-everyone-guessing-with-her-stellar-performance-in-richard-linklaters-hit-man\/","title":{"rendered":"Acting Up: Adria Arjona Keeps Everyone Guessing With Her Stellar Performance in Richard Linklater&#8217;s &#8216;Hit Man&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3>The Snapshot<\/h3>\n<p>In the Sundance smash <em>Hit Man<\/em>, Adria Arjona is Madison, a beautiful young woman in a bad marriage who may or may not want her estranged husband killed. She approaches a man she thinks is a professional killer, who turns out to be a mild-mannered college professor moonlighting for the police department as a fake hitman (Glen Powell).<\/p>\n<p>(<em>Hit Man<\/em> will be released on Netflix on June 7.)<\/p>\n<p><center><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/DXwa8DKIK7g?si=rwJvxXviy9Z63WnX\" title=\"YouTube video player\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/center><\/p>\n<h3>The Performance<\/h3>\n<p>For the first half hour or so of Richard Linklater\u2019s new dark comedy, rising movie star Glen Powell charms the audience with his good looks, his sense of humor and his easygoing nature. He\u2019s playing Gary Johnson, a college professor who moonlights as a fake hitman for the New Orleans Police Department. It starts innocently enough. He\u2019s an electronics expert who helps with wiretaps and undercover ops when the lead detective is suspended and Gary is pressed into action.<\/p>\n<p>Powell is a natural in front of the camera. We see him use disguises and fake accents and all kinds of other tricks to nail people who want to kill loved ones.<\/p>\n<p>Roughly 32 minutes in, Arjona\u2019s Madison enters and instantly changes the vibe. She brings an edge. Danger. Sex. It\u2019s an enormous shift in the film\u2019s tone, but not an unwelcome one.<\/p>\n<p>Arjona\u2019s entrance also brings with it gravitas and drama, which, by that point, the film needs. The natural chemistry she shares with Powell makes the film even more enjoyable, while also giving it, and the audience, stakes.<\/p>\n<p>Arjona\u2019s Madison could easily be just a love interest, and in a lesser film, that\u2019s exactly how she would be. She certainly starts that way, but quickly turns into a femme fatale, and then evolves further (to say more would play spoiler, and that\u2019s no fun).<\/p>\n<p>The truth is that you\u2019re never really sure exactly who Madison is, where she stands and what she\u2019s capable of until the end. While the germ of that comes from good writing \u2014 the screenplay was written by Linklater and Powell \u2014 the practice comes out in the acting. Just as Arjona singlehandedly changes the movie upon her entrance, she also keeps the audience \u2014 and Powell\u2019s Gary Johnson \u2014 on our toes.<\/p>\n<p>The thing about femme fatales is that they can become a clich\u00e9, and they can also instantly lose the audience\u2019s sympathy if not played right. Arjona avoids both pitfalls with ease. The moment Madison becomes especially dangerous, the audience is still somehow rooting for her to be more than just another bad girl.<\/p>\n<p>On the contrary, she\u2019s unique in how alluring she remains even after we think she might lead our hero to his doom. Arjona makes us want for her to be something more. We want things to work out, even when it seems completely impossible.<\/p>\n<p>When that kind of thing happens, you need to sit up and take notice. Again, the writing helps, but great scripts are ruined by poor acting choices all the time. Arjona\u2019s work in <Em>Hit Man<\/em> won\u2019t give her career the boost that Powell\u2019s will get (he is after all the star of the movie). If there\u2019s any justice, then it\u2019s only a matter of time before she\u2019ll get to play that lead role. When that time comes, she will have earned it.<\/p>\n<p><center><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-small aligncenter wp-image-134356\" style=\"margin: center auto;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.castingnetworks.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/AAAAQfCMlrdQbT4q2pAj7_lcMYbaR34b_eWAw8MjClDPCYM975GTC6U9R0TA5Rc4d-68FiXwRitEQWgpf7gvgYrD9hiPUYSk-0Ti-9FoGPdFbCstVO3QcAOm4KdR0VUC4ESSgQrkE1VVNgHLEuOYfvSUL6i-1-768x319.jpg\" alt=\"Adria Arjona and Glen Powell embracing inside a white apartment.\" width=\"768\" height=\"319\" class=\"size-small aligncenter wp-image-134356\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.castingnetworks.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/AAAAQfCMlrdQbT4q2pAj7_lcMYbaR34b_eWAw8MjClDPCYM975GTC6U9R0TA5Rc4d-68FiXwRitEQWgpf7gvgYrD9hiPUYSk-0Ti-9FoGPdFbCstVO3QcAOm4KdR0VUC4ESSgQrkE1VVNgHLEuOYfvSUL6i-1-768x319.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.castingnetworks.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/AAAAQfCMlrdQbT4q2pAj7_lcMYbaR34b_eWAw8MjClDPCYM975GTC6U9R0TA5Rc4d-68FiXwRitEQWgpf7gvgYrD9hiPUYSk-0Ti-9FoGPdFbCstVO3QcAOm4KdR0VUC4ESSgQrkE1VVNgHLEuOYfvSUL6i-1-300x125.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.castingnetworks.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/AAAAQfCMlrdQbT4q2pAj7_lcMYbaR34b_eWAw8MjClDPCYM975GTC6U9R0TA5Rc4d-68FiXwRitEQWgpf7gvgYrD9hiPUYSk-0Ti-9FoGPdFbCstVO3QcAOm4KdR0VUC4ESSgQrkE1VVNgHLEuOYfvSUL6i-1-1024x425.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.castingnetworks.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/AAAAQfCMlrdQbT4q2pAj7_lcMYbaR34b_eWAw8MjClDPCYM975GTC6U9R0TA5Rc4d-68FiXwRitEQWgpf7gvgYrD9hiPUYSk-0Ti-9FoGPdFbCstVO3QcAOm4KdR0VUC4ESSgQrkE1VVNgHLEuOYfvSUL6i-1-500x208.jpg 500w, https:\/\/www.castingnetworks.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/AAAAQfCMlrdQbT4q2pAj7_lcMYbaR34b_eWAw8MjClDPCYM975GTC6U9R0TA5Rc4d-68FiXwRitEQWgpf7gvgYrD9hiPUYSk-0Ti-9FoGPdFbCstVO3QcAOm4KdR0VUC4ESSgQrkE1VVNgHLEuOYfvSUL6i-1-1050x436.jpg 1050w, https:\/\/www.castingnetworks.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/AAAAQfCMlrdQbT4q2pAj7_lcMYbaR34b_eWAw8MjClDPCYM975GTC6U9R0TA5Rc4d-68FiXwRitEQWgpf7gvgYrD9hiPUYSk-0Ti-9FoGPdFbCstVO3QcAOm4KdR0VUC4ESSgQrkE1VVNgHLEuOYfvSUL6i-1.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 768px) 100vw, 768px\" \/><span style=\"font-size: small;\"><\/a> Photo via Netflix.<\/span><\/center><\/p>\n<h3>The Career<\/h3>\n<p>There\u2019s something special about being the person people talk about when they say, \u201cOh, jeez, that movie was awful. Although, ______ was good!\u201d You want to be that name filling in the blank. The one good thing that people took away from a cinematic disappointment.<\/p>\n<p>That\u2019s what Adria Arjona took from the atrocious 2022 superhero movie <em>Morbius<\/em>, in which she played the colleague of star Jared Leto\u2019s titular scientist who becomes a vampire and \u2026 well, it doesn\u2019t really matter. What does matter is how strong Arjona was in something of a thankless role. On the surface, she\u2019s eye candy in a plotless mess, but look closer and you\u2019ll see that she actually brings class to the proceedings and is the smartest person in the room.<\/p>\n<p>Arjona said in interviews that this is why she took the part, and it shows.<\/p>\n<p>The 32-year-old actress has been finding larger roles in her decade-long career. She showed up in a half dozen episodes of the second season of HBO\u2019s <em>True Detective<\/em>, played Dorothy in the 2017 <em>Wizard of Oz<\/em> update <em>Emerald City<\/em> and showed up in plenty of genre fares like <em>The Belko Experiment<\/em> and <em>Pacific Rim: Uprising<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>Arjona also had supporting roles in the Melissa McCarthy comedy <em>Life of the Party<\/em>, the Ben Affleck thriller <Em>Triple Frontier<\/em>, is one of the titular six in <em>6 Underground<\/em> and was in five of the six episodes in Season One of <Em>Good Omens<\/em>. She has since appeared in the sensational <em>Andor<\/em> and the 2022 remake of <em>Father of the Bride<\/em>, in which she played said bride alongside Andy Garcia. Just last month, she was cast as one of the leads in the new Amazon series, <em>Criminal<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>In other words, Arjona\u2019s clearly more than a pretty face. She\u2019s also a versatile performer with genuine range who is probably just one role away from becoming a bona fide star in her own right. One viewing of Hit Man is all you\u2019ll need to see how true that is.<\/p>\n<p><b>Did you know that Casting Networks Premium memberships now include access to health and well-being benefits and discounts? <a href=\"https:\/\/www.castingnetworks.com\/news\/thrive-and-shine-casting-networks-premium-members-can-now-access-benefits-and-discounts\/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Click here<\/a> to learn more about Thrive!<\/b><\/p>\n<p><b>You may also like:<\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.castingnetworks.com\/news\/franklin-casting-director-juliette-menager-talks-working-with-suzanne-smith-the-challenges-of-finding-english-speaking-french-actors\/\" title=\"\u2018Franklin\u2019 Casting Director Juliette M\u00e9nager Talks Working With Suzanne Smith, the Challenges of Finding English-Speaking French Actors\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">\u2018Franklin\u2019 Casting Director Juliette M\u00e9nager Talks Working With Suzanne Smith, the Challenges of Finding English-Speaking French Actors<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.castingnetworks.com\/news\/jack-lowden-talks-the-joys-of-working-in-his-native-scottish-accent-thoughts-on-his-river-cartwright-character-in-apple-tvs-slow-horses\/\" title=\"Jack Lowden Talks the Joys of Working in His Native Scottish Accent, Thoughts on His River Cartwright Character in Apple TV+\u2019s \u2018Slow Horses\u2019\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Jack Lowden Talks the Joys of Working in His Native Scottish Accent, Thoughts on His River Cartwright Character in Apple TV+\u2019s \u2018Slow Horses\u2019<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.castingnetworks.com\/news\/june-2024-30-activities-for-every-day-this-month\/\" title=\"June 2024: 30 Activities for Every Day This Month\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">June 2024: 30 Activities for Every Day This Month<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Snapshot In the Sundance smash Hit Man, Adria Arjona is Madison, a beautiful young woman in a bad marriage who may or may not want her estranged husband killed. 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