- Andor season 2 episode 6 features a very cathartic second for Bix Caleen
- Adria Arjona has defined why it is so important for her Star Wars character
- Bix has struggled to maneuver previous the trauma she suffered within the present’s first season
Andor actor Adria Arjona has opened up on the cathartic “justice” that her character Bix Caleen enjoys on this season’s sixth episode.
Ahead of Andor season 2’s launch, I sat down with Arjona to debate Bix’s journey within the Star Wars TV present’s remaining installment.
As a part of our chat, I could not move up the chance to get Arjona’s ideas on the emotional launch Bix feels following occasions that transpire in season 2 episode 6, titled ‘What a Festive Evening’, too.
Full spoilers instantly comply with for Andor season 2 episode 6 and its predecessor’s remaining few episodes.
It’s an understatement to say Bix has been put by way of the emotional wringer in among the finest Disney+ reveals.
Her troubles might have begun in Andor season 1’s early entries, which noticed Bix contact nascent Rebel Alliance founder Luthen Rael to arrange a gathering between him and Cassian Andor. However, the chance she took was nothing in comparison with the traumatizing occasions she’d be subjected to later that season.
Indeed, when the Galactic Empire invaded Ferrix to trace down Cassian, Bix was caught within the proverbial crossfire. As certainly one of Cassian’s closest allies (she was his ex-girlfriend, in spite of everything), Bix was taken prisoner and psychologically tortured by the callous Doctor Gorst to power her to inform the Empire the place Cassian is.
Long story quick, Cassian rescues Bix within the Disney+ sequence’ season 1 finale and, with Brasso and Wilmon’s assist, will get Bix to a relative secure haven that, as we study on this season’s first episode, is an agricultural planet within the Outer Rim known as Mina-Rau.
However, whereas she escaped bodily, Bix remains to be mentally and emotionally trapped by the horrifying occasions she skilled.
The first three episodes of certainly one of 2025’s new Star Wars reveals, the occasions of which happen 12 months after final season’s finale, are usually not solely stuffed with extra trauma-laced moments, together with virtually being sexually assaulted by an Imperial Officer in episode 3, but in addition reveal she’s stricken by nightmares of Doctor Gorst.
In chapters 4 to 6, which happen one yr after season 2’s first act, Box has turn into hooked on the unlawful in-universe substance known as Death Stick, which she takes to assist her sleep.
It’s this two-year cycle of unending psychological and emotional anguish that makes the ultimate sequence depicted in ‘What a Festive Evening’ all of the extra cathartic for Bix. Indeed, when Cassian is known as upon to conduct a brand new, mysterious mission for Luthen, Bix needs to tag alongside.
It’s a superb job she does. Before episode 6 ends, we study that Cassian and Bix have been despatched to get rid of Doctor Gorst, whose secret lab is located on Coruscant – the identical planet the pair have been hiding out on for months.
Knowing how vital this mission is to her, Cassian lets Bix take the lead. Long story quick, she makes use of the identical psychological torture tools on the evil scientist earlier than Cassian destroys Gorst’s headquarters to make it seem like it blew up in an experiment gone fallacious.
I will not spoil what lies in retailer for Bix on this season’s subsequent six episodes – as I famous in my Andor season 2 evaluation, I’ve seen all 12 chapters. Nonetheless, episode 6 is a watershed second for Bix in her efforts to purge herself of the ache and distress inflicted on her – and Arjona absolutely agreed with that sentiment.
“[Showrunner] Tony [Gilroy] has a very stunning means of instilling confidence in you with out truly providing you with a praise!” Arjona joked to start with. “But, actually, I needed to do justice to how he wrote Bix’s arc this season and by what occurred to her on the finish of season one.
“After final season’s finale, I had so many questions for Tony as a result of I used to be actually curious to see how she was going to deal with it. How would she cope with it? Would she shove it underneath the rug or attempt to face it head-on?
I used to be actually curious to see how she was going to deal with it
Adria Arjona
“I very a lot establish with Bix as a personality, who’s somebody who has to behave powerful and be robust, and be a part of one thing nice,” Arjona continued. “But, due to what occurred in season one, she’s bodily and mentally unable to play a job within the riot, which frustrates her.
“That huge second [in episode six] permits her to redeem herself and, as you will see very quickly, she re-finds herself all through the remainder of the season. She has come again into her personal and also you lastly see the glint in her eye, which she had in season one, once more. It’s like ‘you’ve got gone by way of a lot, however now you are again to who you have been’. It was actually particular to see her overcome that and take possession of her future as soon as extra.”
Andor season 2 episodes 1 to six are out now. Three extra episodes will arrive on May 6/7, with the ultimate trio being launched on May 13/14.
