Most 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 Archona. She made her debut in the series "True Detective" and immediately received recognition from viewers and critics.
After this work, she had other significant roles, however, the first exit to the set, as a rule, is remembered forever.
Biography
Adria Archon 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 recognized the backstage life of the musical elite - after all, her father was a celebrity. Everyone in Latin America knew the name of her father, Ricardo Archon. He often went on tour, and Adria and his 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 go 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 was always playing at home, the 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 a novice artist, and her childish mind eagerly absorbed everything.
After leaving school, Adria went to New York to get an actress education 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 school of survival, and then moved to Los Angeles.
Actress career
The first works of Archon in the movie are difficult to call serious: these are the roles in the short film "Loss", the series "Remember Everything" and "In View".
And on the screens at this time there is a stunning series "True Detective" (2014-
) Adria watched him 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 was not enough.
Adria still really wanted to get into the project, and fate went to meet her. Once the girl went to the casting in another series, but the producer of the "True Detective" saw her and sent her to an audition in another studio. It is not enough to say that the actress was worried - she was literally shaking from fear. She was not ready, did not know how to behave. And then she decided that she would remain herself - as she is, for there was nothing else left. And she was taken to the project!
Being on the 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 these people you yourself become better and more professional, because they set the tone in everything and keep the bar high.
Moreover, the director Nick Pizzolatto knows how to make actors together, so that they really become a team.
However, there were difficult moments too. No one looked at the fact that Adria is a beginner actress. If you had to do something, then she did it, and that’s it. And once she needed to portray how she seduces the hero Taylor Kitsch. It was necessary to show passion, sexuality in a situation where several cameras were aimed at you, and people crowded around the site. This was perhaps the most difficult moment during all the filming. However, Archon managed, and no one even noticed how difficult this scene was for her.
After this work, the actress had a creative vacation, 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, just in case, she decided to go, and became a participant in the project: she was approved for the role of an adult Dorothy Gale.
Adria later said that she was mistaken when she thought she was not suitable for this role. On the contrary - they are very similar to Dorothy. After all, the actress spent all her 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.
This was especially vividly felt when the actress recalled her move to New York and the confusion in front of this monster who lived, breathed and moved like a huge monster that could swallow you at any moment.
After the release of the series, Archon became truly famous. She has her own fans who create fan clubs on social networks. Magazines interview her and put her photo on the cover.
The portfolio of the actress also has full-length paintings. For example, the action movie "Pacific Frontier" (2018) and the thriller "Triple Frontier" (2019).
