If you bought stock in the Adria Arjone department a few years back, you are thriving right about now. The actress has been an up-and-comer within the larger Hollywood system for years now, but she has truly reached new levels of exposure and impact in recent years. Between high-profile projects like Richard Linklater’s Hit Man, Tony Gilroy’s Andor, and her heavily guarded mystery role in James Gunn’s upcoming Superman sequel Man of Tomorrow, Arjona has found herself at the center of some of the most highly acclaimed and anticipated projects in entertainment.
Her most recent role is as the final girl incarnate in Adam Wingard’s new A24 horror-action film, Onslaught. And in a recent interview, Arjona made it clear that despite her busy schedule and in-demand status, she not only had a great time making Onslaught but is very eager to work with Wingard again and again in the near future.
Wingard has developed something of a reputation for being the kind of director that performers form long-term creative relationships with. Most notably, Dan Stevens has remained a regular collaborator of Wingard’s ever since appearing in The Guest more than a decade ago, with their artistic partnership stretching all the way up to Onslaught, in which Stevens appears as a scene-stealing central character. The same could be said of Rebecca Hall, who appeared in both of Wingard’s MonsterVerse films, Godzilla vs. Kong and Godzilla x Kong: The New Empire, and then followed him directly over to appear in Onslaught as well.
John Carpenter has long served as a primary influence for Wingard (a fact that has arguably never been more self-evident than it is in Onslaught, which I mean in the most complimentary of ways), and Carpenter was very much a filmmaker who liked to form a troupe of regular collaborators and work with them time and again. Famously, Carpenter and Kurt Russell collaborated numerous times across their careers and jointly created some of the most endearing works of horror cinema in history, so it’s no real surprise that Wingard isn’t averse to following in those footsteps. But in a recent interview, Arjona revealed that she would be more than interested in being the Kurt Russell to Wingard’s John Carpenter, saying she hopes to make “1000” more movies together.
What’s also interesting about this is that Wingard recently revealed he actually wrote Onslaught for Arjona and had no backups in mind. Thus, it’s apparent that they each admire one another’s work and are eager to continue collaborating for a long time to come. Here’s hoping we get a bunch more exploitation action-horror hybrids from this duo, because Onslaught is one helluva vintage joyride.
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