Andor director Toby Haynes recently spoke to Entertainment Weekly and discussed how we last saw Kino Loy, the character played by Andy Serkis, left behind because he was unable to swim, and teased there’s always a chance Serkis could return.
“Oh my God, I wish I knew,” Haynes laughed when asked about Kino’s fate. “I’m a fan from here on, so whether he comes back in this season or not, I don’t know.” He added, “I think it’s open there with what happens to his storyline. He certainly wasn’t killed. So we know that much. And then that’s the interesting thing about [creator Tony Gilroy’s] writing. If you’re not dead, then who knows what’s gonna happen to your character. So [his return] could happen.”
Haynes added of the shocking “I can’t swim” moment: “It was a surprise to us all. I had to start work on [episodes] 8 and 9 without seeing the end of episode 10, so I didn’t know that he couldn’t swim until that point. So it was a real shocker when I read that script.” He continued, “The way that Andy played it, we were doing it where he’s sort of angry and it’s emotional that he’s saying, ‘I can’t swim! I can’t swim!’ But then he just suddenly played it in this serene way where he was smiling and he goes, ‘I’ve done all this and I can’t actually get out, I can’t swim. This is where we say goodbye.’ I thought that was absolutely inspired and that was great working with Andy that he would just chuck ideas at it and you wouldn’t know it until he was actually doing it. And so it was sort of thrilling.”
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