Andor showrunner Tony Gilroy has spoken to the Hollywood Reporter about the difficulty in bringing back legacy characters to the second and final season of the Disney+ show.
Knowing that the series would end up on the doorstep of Rogue One: A Star Wars Story, Gilroy hoped to populate Yavin 4 Rebel Base with as many familiar faces as possible. But the realities of production meant that they had to forgo some actors and even recast.
“Legacy characters are really tricky to bring back. They’re very, very expensive. A lot of times, their schedules don’t work out,” Gilroy shares. “There’s probably a couple people that we wanted to have in Yavin at the end, who are in the beginning of Rogue, but we just couldn’t get them because they were busy.”
He also credits Disney and Lucasfilm for not pressuring him to insert the most storied Star Wars characters into the fold. “On the creative side, I will never have an experience like this ever again,” Gilroy adds. “It’s just amazing that they trusted us, and they backed our play all the way through.”
Read the interview in full here. Andor Season 2 streams exclusively on Disney+ on April 22nd in North America and April 23rd in the UK & Europe.
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