Adding to her momentous 2024, Arjona also starred in Richard Linklater‘s romantic crime caper Hit Man with Glen Powell, shot the final season of the Star Wars universe series Andor, and starred in and produced the indie dramedy Los Frikis in the Dominican Republic. Plus, there’s more in the pipeline.

Hence her noting that waiting at the airport was “the only time where I can kind of have a second,” speaking to IndieWire in December.

“I want to showcase different versions of what a Latin American woman can be,” she said of representing her culture onscreen. “So those three stereotypes that we’re so used to seeing a Latin American woman as, are disheveled by all these quirky, weird characters that I’m playing. That’s my role in it.”

To balance out going to the dark side for a role, she explained to Powell in a winter 2024 Interview conversation, “I try to surround myself with people I love and trust, and who make fun of me and are funny. As long as I’m laughing, I can go through just about anything.”

And it sounds as if she and Momoa share a spiritual side. “I do have little rituals,” Arjona told Powell. “I’m always with a little palo santo. I have crutches of things that I have invented for myself that are good luck.”