Speaking on the Miami Film Festival this previous Friday, the place he accepted the inaugural Virtuoso Award from Variety, Diego Luna supplied some perception into how he feels about Andor solely having another season, in addition to how season 1 is impacting season 2.
Both Diego Luna and Tony Gilroy haven’t shied away from sharing their constructive opinions on Andor’s restricted run. As a fan, it’s all the time disappointing figuring out there’s an finish to the content material you’re having fun with. However, nowadays of multiverses, jampacked timelines, and interwoven narratives, maybe it’s not such a foul factor that this prequel to a prequel knew the place its end line was from the beginning.
Speaking about his expertise throughout manufacturing to date, Luna stated:
“It’s been bittersweet as a result of daily I do know I’m a day nearer to the top. It was very nice to strategy a collection figuring out there’s an ending. It doesn’t occur! The new dialog on set with streaming is individuals speaking concerning the doable future… Like, ‘Well, there is likely to be a second season or a 3rd season.’ This factor of leaving every little thing open I feel is bringing nervousness to actors that must be handled. We’re all fascinated about one thing that we will’t know.”
I can see how eradicating the anomaly from the equation would put an actor relaxed, even when the readability is “that’s it.” Lucasfilm requires giant commitments from the actors they signal on, which is a double-edged sword that we’ve heard franchise actors each rave and complain about time and time once more. It’s a fantastic alternative, however it’s additionally very limiting, with actors not with the ability to signal on to different jobs for years relying on the size of the tasks. There’s additionally the factor that this information brings to manufacturing; actors are capable of finetune their efficiency in response to this data.
When requested concerning the affect this information and the discharge of season 1 has had on the set of season 2, Luna defined:
“The second season ends the place Rogue One begins. We’re not altering the ending of Rogue One in order that’s it. It’s a pleasant feeling, it’s like a protracted movie… It has a starting and an finish. We all know what’s going to occur. There’s one thing attention-grabbing with the second season, which is that I’ve a distinct feeling daily I’m going to set. Now I do know, not simply that the collection was nicely obtained and that folks favored it, however I do know why they favored it. That’s one other instrument now we have nowadays via social media. We truly hearken to audiences and critics. We perceive what issues linked and what didn’t join. It’s type of cool to have a possibility to go and execute one other season having this data. It’s, in a approach, a season that may find yourself representing the viewers another way. Somehow, the viewers is a part of this season as a result of the interplay we had served as inspiration.”
It’s encouraging to listen to Luna describe such a rigorously thought-out artistic course of throughout manufacturing that’s inclusive of constructive viewers suggestions. I admit I’m somewhat shocked to listen to this given Tony Gilroy’s famously aloof angle towards pleasing the followers. Not that he doesn’t care about producing high quality tv, however he’s by no means exuded a fan-collaborative nature. Of course, whereas Gilroy is driving the prepare, he has stated prior to now he roughly leaves manufacturing as much as his administrators, so that is very a lot a group effort.
Regardless, it’s a pleasant change of tempo to get some constructive and stable information from a Star Wars undertaking given the film information from the previous few days. For extra updates on Andor, try our newest report on the manufacturing of season 2 in Spain.
When she is not watching her family and friends’s eyes glaze over on the point out of The Clone Wars, she’s on the park along with her canine, Melvin, or on the sofa with a e-book in a single hand and a drink within the different. Physically, she lives in Ohio; spiritually, she lives in Naboo.
