Overview
A role that stayed with everyone who saw it
Shot over three golden weeks on the coast, Seventeenth Summer follows Mara Ellison through the last carefree August before adulthood. Adriana plays Mara with a lightness that slowly fractures — laughter in the daylight scenes, something braver after dark.
The commercial cut ran in cinemas nationwide; the full-length music edit became the summer’s most-shared video within days of release.
The role
“Mara is seventeen and infinite at once. I played her like a held breath — the whole film is one long exhale.”
Preparation meant two weeks of dawn swims, dialect sessions with local teenagers, and learning to drive the vintage convertible herself. The celebrated pier scene was captured in a single forty-minute take as the light failed.
Stills & moments
From the set of Seventeenth Summer
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