“Andor” Team Talk Moving On From “Star Wars”

The new “Star Wars” series premiered its second and final season in Los Angeles on Monday night with cast and crew in attendance to discuss the final run of the show and the years spent on crafting and playing these roles.

Series creator Tony Gilroy once again reiterates to THR he’s done with “Star Wars” after this, having spent years with the franchise already:

“I don’t think it’s a stretch at all to say this is the most important thing I’ll ever have a chance to work on. It’s a major chunk of my life. We made eight movies in five years, that’s what we did really. That’s how we think of it.

I think I’ve contributed enough for the time being; I think I’d like to do something else for a while. Never say never but right now I’d like to go back and direct a movie maybe.”

He’s referring there to the way each season consists of four story arcs clocking in at around three episodes each. As so much of these shows is done practically, each of these seasons were major endeavors for all involved – including Cassian Andor himself, actor Diego Luna.

Luna tells the trade that each season has taken them two-and-a-half-years to do, so the original five season plan wouldn’t have been sustainable as it’s “impossible to keep the rigor, the attention to detail that we have in this show”. He goes on to say:

“It’s the best that could happen, saying let’s have two seasons, let’s finish in a moment where we’re all loving what we are doing, when we’re in love with not just the material but the process. It hurts to say goodbye, but it’s better to say goodbye at this moment than when you can’t keep going.”

Gilroy also says that trying to get established characters from the overall franchise into the show is a highly difficult and expensive task:

“Legacy characters are really tricky to bring back. They’re very, very expensive. A lot of times, their schedules don’t work out. There’s probably a couple people that we wanted to have in Yavin at the end, who are in the beginning of [‘Rogue One’], but we just couldn’t get them because they were busy.”

The second season of “Andor” starts streaming April 22nd on Disney+ with the episodes released in batches of three episodes weekly.

Source: THR

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