Adria Arjona talks sharing screen with Dakota Johnson’s

Rising Hollywood actress Adria Arjona has recently shared the screen with indie film darling Dakota Johnson in the brand-new movie Splitsville, which she described as “an unromantic comedy.”

The film begins with Ashley, played by Arjona, dropping a bombshell on her husband Carey (Kyle Marvin): she’s been unfaithful and is ready to call it quits.

From there, the story unravels into a sharp, chaotic comedy that follows the tangled love lives of two couples, Marvin and Arjona on one side, Johnson and writer-director Michael Angelo Covino on the other, each testing the messy boundaries of non-monogamy with wildly different results.

Speaking with PEOPLE, Arjona shared that it is “beautiful to be a part of something that is reimagining what a romantic comedy might feel like or be like.”

The interviewer also pressed the Andor breakout star about working alongside Johnson—briefly, but significantly enough to balance the film.

“I didn’t have too many scenes with Dakota but, again,” Arjona noted, “you have two really beautiful and sensible males sort of leading this movie, and so much so that they give the women all the power in this film.”

The actress added that while the “bro element” of the male actors is vivid on-screen, they were intensely protective of the women’s characters.

“Making sure that we sort of felt happy with the way that they wrote our characters and really gave us ownership over them,” Arjona said of her co-stars. “It’s rare, and I’m really thankful to them for that.”

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