star has the wind at her back. After her powerful turn as Bix Caleen on season one of the Emmy-nominated , she followed it up with a scene-sealing performance in Richard Linklater’s , which included Arjona’s contender for line delivery of the year. (More on that later.
) She’s also starring in the upcoming , Michael Schwartz and Tyler Nilson’s follow-up to their critically acclaimed 2019 film, . And with season two already in the can, Arjona is currently filming yet another highly anticipated series in , which Ed Brubaker and Jordan Harper adapted from Brubaker and Sean Phillips’ comic book series of the same name. (Co-directors Anna Boden and Ryan Fleck are helming the Amazon Prime series, which counts Charlie Hunnam, Richard Jenkins, Arjona, Emilia Clarke and Luke Evans as series regulars.
) In the meantime, Arjona returns to the big screen next Friday in Zoë Kravitz’s well-received directorial debut, . She plays a former contestant named Sarah, who’s a part of a group of women that accept an invitation to the private island getaway of tech mogul Slater King (Channing Tatum). The latter has just re-emerged following his “cancellation,” and the psychological thriller explores what happens when the wrong lessons are learned from the #MeToo movement.
Arjona’s Sarah initially brings her competitive reality-show mindset to the proceeding, but she soon realizes that she’s going to have to support her fellow female guests, including Naomi Ackie’s Frida, if .