Actress Adria Arjona, who plays mechanic Bix Caleen in the upcoming Disney+ Star Wars: Andor series, has shared the lengths that Tony Gilroy and the team went in creating an entire city for the filming of the show.
For Star Wars fans, what do you think they would be surprised to learn about the making of Andor?
ARJONA: They built an entire city for us, like an entire city. I got lost in it. I remember the first day that I walked on set, and I was in costume already, which was a coincidence. It just happened that was the day that they gave me the tour. I was at a costume fitting and I went over there, and I was mind blown. It was an entire outdoor city that exists. Ferrix exists. It’s not in a studio. It’s not parts of a set that we filmed in studio. It is very much a city. I keep saying three to five city blocks. I could be wrong. And I also could be maybe under, I’m not sure, I’m not good with distances.
One of the many reasons why I loved it is that it was clearly filmed on location, practical sets, everything just looked real. It just was very impressive.
ARJONA: Yeah. I had one scene where they were like, you got to run. And I was like, all, where do you want? And the directors where do you want? Cause they could point the camera pretty much everywhere. I was going in one specific direction because Ferrix does have a very specific geographical map. But either in this particular place that I was both ways would leave me to the same place. So it was like, wherever you want. And that was really cool. I’m like, “Oh, so you can point the camera everywhere.”
Read the interview in full at Collider.com where the actress also discusses her relationship with Cassian Andor and shares more about her character, Bix. The first three episodes of Andor arrive on September 21st exclusively on Disney+.
