Having received a series order back in January, Prime Video’s upcoming TV adaptation of Ed Brubaker and Sean Phillips’ hard-boiled crime comic Criminal has added Star Wars: Andor star Adria Arjona to its cast.
Arjona – who will next be seen alongside Glen Powell in Richard Linklater’s Hit Man – joins the previously announced Richard Jenkins (The Shape of Water) in the series, and will play the character of Greta Watson, “a sharp-tongued top-level car thief and driver and the widowed mother of Angie.”
The official character description reads: “Ever since her husband died in a bank job gone bad, Greta has been battling with herself about how to escape the only life she’s ever known – and the only place she’s ever thrived. The problem is, she’s good at this. She’s looking for a big score, a lump of money she can use like a gun to shoot her and Angie out of this life and into another one.”
Criminal tells “the interweaving saga of several generations of families tied together by the crimes and murders of the past” and has Brubaker serving as co-showrunner with Jordan Harper (Hightown), while Ryan Fleck and Anna Boden (Captain Marvel) are on board to direct the first four episodes.
Via Deadline
