The second season of Andor is presently in mid-production within the UK, with 4 months of filming left, however The Hollywood Reporter caught up with star Diego Luna to look again on the first season and his expertise with the present, now that it’s been a couple of months because it completed airing.
One of the issues that we discovered going into the primary season is that showrunner Tony Gilroy initially supposed to make 5 seasons of the sequence, every one in all them masking one yr main as much as Rogue One. Plans have been modified as soon as they realized it might take them over a decade to provide all of them, and subsequently determined to compress the arcs of every of the final 4 seasons into three-episode arcs that we at the moment are getting within the second season. Luna instructed The Hollywood Reporter that he’s nonetheless glad they made that call, if for no different purpose than he could be doubling his character’s age within the present by the point they received to the top:
“We managed to make the sequence we made as a result of we took the time we took. The considered making 5 seasons, I’d most likely be 54 and nonetheless doing this. So it’d be not possible to fake to be the man earlier than Rogue One for such a very long time, and to be sincere, it’s such an intense journey. It’s unbelievable, however it’s so intense. And so it’s nice to know that we can provide every part to it, and by the top, nonetheless have one thing else to offer to different tasks and to life.”
Luna and Gilroy have at all times described Rogue One because the season finale of Andor, versus the sequence being a prequel to the movie. According to Luna, this enables him to seek out some freedom in what he can deliver to the sequence by understanding the place he should find yourself, fairly than wanting again on the movie and wishing he’d achieved issues in another way:
“I remind myself on a regular basis of the place the character finally ends up and what selections I made, as a result of that provides construction to every part I’m doing now. So I’m beginning the opposite manner round. It’s much less, ‘Oh, I want,’ and it’s extra like, ‘Okay, as a result of I get there, I can do that.’ So that’s the place I discovered freedom and all of the alternative ways I can get there. And then I’ll take into consideration what’s the most unpredictable one. So, all of the layers we didn’t get to see within the movie, I get to discover them now. If I had tried them on the time, then I wouldn’t be capable of discover them now. So it’s only a perspective type of factor. The freedom comes from understanding precisely what he does.”
Season one had a chilling reveal within the type of a post-credits scene, after we discovered that Cassian Andor was constructing elements of the Death Star throughout his imprisonment in Narkina 5, that means he was a part of the workforce that assembled the weapon that finally killed him. Diego Luna revealed his response to studying that early within the course of:
“I had time to digest that as a result of I’m additionally concerned as a producer. So I had an opportunity to see it coming, however it’s a kind of concepts that’s simply sensible. It’s additionally not apparent. He spent a fairly very long time dwelling the expertise of that jail with out discovering it out, and it lets you marvel, ‘Holy shit, what are they constructing? Could this be …?’ One of the numerous issues that the present has may be very affected person writing. There are nice concepts that include persistence. So it’s very mature writing, and that was a kind of reveals the place you have been like, ‘Shit, that’s so sensible.’”
For Luna, it’s a “pinch me” second that has been occurring for years. And not as a result of he will get to be in Star Wars, however as a result of he can’t consider they’re permitting them to be this daring and mature:
“I at all times had a sense that this wasn’t gonna see the sunshine [of day] until it did. (Laughs.) I saved going, ‘This is just too excellent. This is working.’ The complete concept, I at all times thought, ‘That’s not possible.’ Throughout the entire course of, we did precisely what we thought was finest. We by no means prioritized something however the present. The writing took the time it wanted to take, and we received the most effective solid you possibly can have. So every part simply saved getting higher and higher, and I at all times had the sensation that one thing needed to go incorrect. But it didn’t. We had the liberty and the assist of Disney and Lucas[film]. We had the boldness of Kathy [Kennedy] behind the present.”
Luna additionally described the writing course of as a real collaboration between Gilroy, the writers, and most people concerned within the present. A key participant in how the world is delivered to life is manufacturing designer Luke Hull, who helped him envision the world:
“Tony will sit down with the manufacturing designer [Luke Hull], and he’ll say, ‘Okay, what’s the logic of that room? Where are the home windows?’ And then Luke will make a fast drawing for when Tony is writing the scene that occurs in that room. Therefore, Luke’s logic is already on the web page. So that’s one thing particular. Usually, the writing occurs someplace else, after which it’s important to interpret it and convey it right into a grounded state of affairs. Tony makes you part of the writing from scratch, so that you’ll defend that logic all the best way to the top. That doesn’t imply it’s straightforward, however from there, something is feasible.”
The second season is promising to be far more intense and relentless, and we most likely shouldn’t get too connected to a few of these characters. The scripts have been prepared manner earlier than season one premiered, and so they have been retaining an analogous manufacturing schedule to what that they had the primary time round.
Cameras began rolling mid-to-late November on Andor season 2, and they’ll wrap in August, aiming for a launch date one yr later. They are presently in two places on the similar time — the Winspit Quarry, which served as Saw Gerrera’s base in season one (and can most likely achieve this once more, as Forest Whitaker has confirmed his return), and the Greenham Airbase, utilized in The Force Awakens to movie the Resistance Base in D’Qar.
Miguel Fernández is a Spanish scholar that has motion pictures as his second ardour in life. His favourite film of all time is The Lord of the Rings, however he’s additionally an enormous Star Wars fan. However, fantasy motion pictures will not be his solely cup of tea, as motion pictures from Scorsese, Fincher, Kubrick or Hitchcock have been an obsession for him since he began to know the language of filmmaking. He is that man who will watch a black and white film, simply because it’s in black and white.
