Andy Serkis, who plays Kino Loy in the Disney+ Andor series, has spoken about the events of episode 10, which aired yesterday, November 9th.
Beware of spoilers ahead!
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After last week’s episode, Kino joined Cassian Andor’s escape plan, and they helped their fellow inmates to get out of Narkina 5. However, at the end of the episode we learn that Kino couldn’t swim.
Serkis recently spoke to Collider about delivering his final line, “I can’t swim.”
“Yeah, I mean, that was one of the great things about having that arc. And obviously, as an actor, I knew that I was going to arrive at that point. And so that’s why I wanted to make him sort of bullish and really kind of unsympathetic early on. Then actually the effect of Cassian and he going head-to-head, and then the moment of realization that they’re never going to ever be released. And that’s sort of reigniting his humanity in a way. Then really in Episode 10, he goes on this journey, which is absolutely part of his core belief system, that the power of the individual can help others, and if you unite, you can change the shape of the future. That comes flooding back to him, and you actually see the process of that happening, which ends up with the kind of sacrifice, if you like, in that scene at the end,” Serkis explained.
“We tried it in different ways, we tried that line in lots of different ways, of him almost being angry without being too sentimental, kind of seeing his own doom,” Serkis continued. “We tried it, and then eventually we sort of settled into this area of his almost coming to terms with it. I think that moment of pathos probably was the way to go. It was a really explorative scene to do, and especially for me, for my character. But it was an amazing scene to shoot with everybody diving off, and jumping to freedom, and just this sort of sense of vertigo, and fear, and phobia of war. Yeah, it was an interesting layer, a very interesting layer to play.”
Watch the first ten episodes of Andor now, exclusively on Disney+.
