Raquel Laguna/ SUCOPRESS. Actress Adria Arjona stars alongside Naomi Ackie and Channing Tatum in the movie BLINK TWICE, directed by Zoë Kravitz. In this interview, Adria talks about what attracted her to the project, about her character and also about working with Zoë Kravitz and the cast. In BLINK TWICE, when tech billionaire Slater King (Channing Tatum) meets cocktail waitress Frida (Naomi Ackie) at his fundraising gala, sparks fly. He invites her to join him and his friends on a dream vacation on his private island. It is paradise. Wild nights blend into sunny days and everyone is having a great time. No one wants this trip to end, but as strange things start to happen, Frida begins to question her reality. There is something wrong with this place. She will have to uncover the truth if she wants to make it out of this party alive. Christian Slater, Simon Rex, Adria Arjona, Kyle MacLachlan, Haley Joel Osment, Geena Davis and Alia Shawkat also star in the film. BLINK TWICE, in theaters on August 23rd.
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00:00So many elements. I think the arc of my character Sarah's arc is one that I haven't necessarily played before.
00:11I think there were so many challenges when reading the script and they scared me.
00:18The movie scared me and I think you should do things that scare you a little bit sometimes.
00:23It was out of my comfort zone.
00:26Just a lot of them.
00:29I don't know how much I can say but I think where she sort of goes and the revelation of what really is happening in the island
00:39and orchestrating that was a big challenge.
00:42I think there's a lot of really challenging scenes and a lot of kind of dark places that my character has to go through
00:51and that was pretty challenging.
00:54We all lived together for two months in the same house and the same resort and that has its challenges as well.
01:02You almost felt like you were in this island and there was no escapism.
01:07Thank God everybody was so lovely and beautiful and we all got along so that kind of saved the whole process.
01:16Yeah, it was hot.
01:19You just kind of go through it. It's what the characters are going through and we would kind of just all laugh about it.
01:26We all were in the same position.
01:30We were all dying of heat but then we would jump in the pool.
01:34I don't think that part was challenging.
01:38I could work with Naomi every day of my life and I'll be the happiest actress.
01:45She's incredible.
01:47She's really smart and she's very visually inclined but also very actor focused
01:55and I think the culmination of those two doesn't happen as often
02:00and just watching her do what she does.
02:04I mean she's a brilliant director.
02:06It was really cool.
02:08I can't believe it's her first movie.
02:10It feels like this is her tenth.
02:12It's so good.
02:14This movie has various messages.
02:16I think it's about taking power back and the misusage of power
02:24and I think this movie is a conversational piece.
02:27I think everyone is going to leave with a very different message
02:31so I don't want to put my fingerprint on it.
02:33I think when you watch it you're going to leave the theater and you're going to have so many questions.
02:38You're going to feel confused.
02:39You're going to feel all these emotions and then you're going to want to go home and talk about it with your friends
02:42and I think that's what real good art should do.
02:47It should evoke these conversations.