During an interview with Perri Nemiroff to discuss the actors Critics Choice Award nomination for Best Actor in a Drama for Andor, Diego Luna explained how impossible it would be to explore the last four years of Cassian’s life in the same formula as the first season.
The actor shared, “It’s not possible, but you know what? It’s not because of us. It’s because of Rogue One. I mean, I also have to look close enough to Rogue One. Can you imagine me in 10 years pretending to be the [character] I was 20 years ago? Just impossible. I mean, sadly there’s no machines or CGI that can do it.”
Earlier in the conversation, Luna expanded upon just how much work goes into a single season of a series like Andor, and stressed that with the first season, what audiences saw was around four years of Luna and Gilroy’s lives spread out across twelve episodes of television. While televisions may be getting shorter because of streaming, there is still a considerable amount of human labor that goes into them, which is often left out of the conversation by audiences. Luna shared:
We didn’t want this to end up being an animated series. I am who I am, and Tony Gilroy has to be the writer of this. We cannot be doing this for 10 years. Basically, the first season took four years. The second will take a little less, but he has to write 12 episodes. Then we have to go [into] pre-production. That normally takes six to eight months to build these places and to start with the whole process of designing, casting. Then the execution is another seven [to] eight months, and then post-production starts. That’s not easy either. So it’s a long journey. Each season takes three [to] four years of my life and of Tony Gilroy’s life.
Read more here, and watch the complete first season of Andor on Disney+ now.
