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Andoris returning with a full-throated rebel yell.
But that’s just how creator Tony Gilroy likes it.
“I can’t think of a better way to lay it out than what we lucked into.
Genevieve O’Reilly on ‘Andor’.Credit:Lucasfilm
It’s three or four days each time we land.
That has an intensification factor on all of those things in a way that I never anticipated.
I’ve never worked on anything like that.
Diego Luna in ‘Andor’.Lucasfilm
When we brought it into the room, everyone was very suspicious.
But it was really exciting to do.
It’s like cooking a sauce down where you just get down to the roux.”
Theo Costa-Marini, Diego Luna, and Alaos Lawson in ‘Andor’s.Lucasfilm
If all of this has your head reeling faster than the jump to hyperspace, you’re in luck.
Disney has put together a helpful 14-minute recap of season 1, which youcan now watch on YouTube.
ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY: In the trailer for season 2, we see Orson Krennic and Jyn.
Genevieve O’Reilly and Stellan Skarsgard in ‘Andor’.Lucasfilm
Are they going to be in season 2, or is that just teasing the run-up toRogue One?
TONY GILROY:I’m not gonna answer that question fully.
We’re not really teasers in our show, are we?
Ben Mendelsohn in ‘Andor’.Lucasfilm
We don’t really tease very much.
Everything that we’re gonna bring in to get toRogueis going to be organic.
There’s nothing we’re bringing in for fun.
Kyle Soller and Denise Gough in ‘Andor’.Lucasfilm
Or just because somebody wants to see it.
It has to be germane to the story.
We did see a bit of Saw Gerrera in season 1.
Diego Luna and Adria Arjona in ‘Andor’.Lucasfilm
Will he have an expanded role in season 2?
Yes, I’ll say yes.
With Syril and Dedra, audiences really responded to that strange sexual tension between them.
Denise Gough in ‘Andor’.Lucasfilm
Can you tell us anything about where that might go?
I responded to that too.
I don’t want to spoil anything.
Genevieve O’Reilly in ‘Andor’.Lucasfilm
But they’re unresolved when we leave them in Ferrix, aren’t they?
Why would I leave two fascinating characters like that behind?
There’s a lot of varieties of romance in this second season, because it’s over five years.
Stellan Skarsgard in ‘Andor’.Lucasfilm
People are going to do what they do.
But then, what does this incoming tsunami of revolution and war do to people’s relationships?
Maarva clearly cast a long shadow from beyond the grave in the season 1 finale.
Adria Arjona and Diego Luna in ‘Andor’.Lucasfilm
How much will her memory loom large this season?
She’s always with him.
Ferrix is always with Bix, Wilmon, Cassian, and Brasso.
Diego Luna in ‘Andor’.Lucasfilm
It’s with them all the time.
[Maarva] carries forward as a fundamental piece of who he is and what he’s become.
So, she’s ever present.
Fans were so excited to see K-2SO back in action in the trailer.
What can you tease about his return?
I fully know how how long you’ve waited for this.
I know how long you’ve waited.
I have my reasons for doing it.
They were really good narrative reasons, and I know that everybody’s been waiting.
So, we’ve done our best to make the most of it.
I hope it passes muster.
Mon Mothma had to walk this incredible delicate line in season 1.
Obviously, byA New Hopeshe’s gone public, so what might we see from her?
Canonically, there’s the moment where she leaves the Senate, and that’s in our timeline.
She has nowhere to hide, and this season just ramps that up to an almost unbearable point.
We still haven’t found them.
Luthen’s very committed to the rebellion, but he is also a slippery character.
How much should we trust him going into season 2?
I think of him as a start-up CEO.
Some guy who built a business in his garage.
For 15 years, he built the revolution in his garage.
Then, in Aldhani in season 1, they went public, and now they’re out there.
Now, for the next four years, how do you scale your company up?
How do you scale your little business that was so successful in your garage and build it out?
And how welcoming are you going to be to new ideas?
Those are all those are all going to be the friction for him in this second half.
He has one speed, and that is to make this all happen.
He’d do anything for the revolution.
Is that going to continue throughout season 2?
Or will we see him swing more in one direction?
He wants to belong in the worst way.
So, what happens when the first embrace comes from the fascists?
Is that where you go?
Or what if you’re embraced by somebody else?
Where do you go?
There’s also the influence of his mother which is practically Shakespearean.
Will she continue to exert that control?
There will be some Eedy here.
That’s all I’m gonna say.
I happen to be a big Eedy fan.
Bix was a big part of this without even fully understanding what she was involved with.
What lies ahead for her?
Does she have a greater understanding now of what’s at stake?
It’s another huge epic journey for her huge epic journey.
We talked about sacrifice.
What do you sacrifice on the altar of something that’s grown to be really important.
What if two really important things come to you at the same time?
What if love and revolution come to you at the same time?
And they don’t play well together.
What do you do?
That’ll be the friction for her.
Last season, we saw Cassian transform from a complete mercenary to a rebel.
How will that evolution continue?
He speaks the truth there at the end when he says, “Take me in.”
So when we meet him, it’s a year later, and he’s all in.
Luthen is a really great talent scout, a great agent and teacher as well.
Cassian’s utility, how far can he go?
We know how far he’s going to go inRogue.
By the time he gets toRoguehe can do anything.
He’s a master.
So, there’ll be espionage.
There’ll be leadership.
The person that the Council on Yavin is willing to send on the most important mission they have.
To get to that point, he still has a lot to learn.
