Showrunner Tony Gilroy and actor Diego Luna have spoken to Empire Magazine about Andor season 2, coming to Disney+ later this month, teasing that the 12 episodes will feature big tectonic moves that will shape the galaxy for years to come.
Gilroy tells Empire in a new joint interview with Luna, nobody will emerge from Andor Season 2 un-squeezed. “What is the real effect of time — pressurised, painful time — on ordinary people that hopefully you care a lot about?” he says, teasing what the next 12 episodes will explore. “What happens to their love affairs? Their relationships? Their homes? Their children? What happens to everything around them, if you’re thrust into this vice-grip of revolution? Those are the big tectonic moves of the second season.”
As for Andor himself, he’s moving towards becoming “this super all-singing, all-dancing, spy-war-fighter”, Gilroy says, while Rael will face the perils of taking his homespun revolution operation and launching it into something big enough to topple the Empire. “Now, all of a sudden, he’s going public,” the showrunner teases. “What do you do if your currency is privacy and secrecy, and failure is death? How do you scale up? How do you play with others? How do all the disparate pieces of the Rebellion come together in [Rebel base] Yavin?” The aim is clear: you’ll never see Star Wars the same way again. Especially the events of Rogue One. “You’re gonna hear some lines [on a rewatch] and go [gasps gutturally],” promises Luna. “Before, you just passed over them. Not anymore.” We are one with the Force, and the Force is with us.
Read Empire’s full Andor interview – talking the 10-year journey of Star Wars’ most unexpected hero with Diego Luna and Tony Gilroy – in the Jaws At 50 issue, on sale Thursday, April 10th. Pre-order a copy online here.
Andor Season 2 streams exclusively on Disney+ on April 22nd in North America and April 23rd in the UK & Europe.
