Where does Cassian go in season 2?
Did Kino Loy survive?
Is Maarva really dead?
Stellan Skarsgard and Diego Luna in ‘Andor’.Des Willie/Lucasfilm Ltd.
SPOILER ALERT: This article contains spoilers on the season 1 finale ofAndor.
Read on below for the answers, or listen to the entire interview on the latest episode ofDagobah Dispatch.
What he says at the end is true.
Fiona Shaw as Maarva in ‘Andor.'.Lucasfilm Ltd.
That’s really a blood oath that he’s in.
I don’t think that question will be in doubt.
I don’t think that’s an issue going forward.
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He’s all in, so we’re gonna juggle four years in the second half.
And what’s happening on a large scale is that canonically we’re gonna end up in Yavin.
But that alliance in Yavin are those the hardcore revolutionaries who really built everything?
Genevieve O’Reilly as Mon Mothma, Bronte Carmichael as Leida, and Alastair Mackenzie as Perrin Fertha.Lucasfilm Ltd.
Or it’s sort of the coalition government there that’s already contentious.
How do you collaborate when paranoia and secrecy are your product?
How do you scale up?
Tony Gilroy and Diego Luna on the set of ‘Andor.'.Des Willie/Lucasfilm Ltd.
How do you join forces?
And how does the empire exploit those differences?
What are the effects of time on these people?
But yeah, he’s in.
So now it’s: What do you do with it?
Are we gonna see even more factions within the Rebellion?
He’s been building something for 13 years or whatever it is.
And Aldhani is the debutante ball for him.
It’s really coming out of the thing.
She goes, “They’re treating this like a robbery.
It’s an announcement.”
And she realizes she’s in tune.
She’s a hunter who understands her prey.
And that’s that little moment there.
And then you see some fissures along the way with him.
[Luthen’s] anxiety is building.
What do you do?
How do you take a start-up outta your garage?
Luthen is there on the ground when he sees Ferrix and Maarva’s great call to rebellion.
What is he thinking when he’s starting to see that?
What is he thinking specifically in that scene?
I think he’s proud.
I mean, my God, he’s just so proud.
You just see him warm up as her speech goes on and that’s everything to him.
No, I think it’s his dream.
Or did you think: What more could you need than Fiona Shaw delivering a great speech to rebellion?
Did they have a production problem or was it a scheduling issue or what was it?
Why would he do that?"
So it was good.
It’s a fun bit of writing.
It did throw off myfellow podcast hostswho were wondering if Marva was really dead.
And I thought she’s pretty much dead after I saw the eulogy.
Oh, I know.
I saw that theory.
I love that theory.
I saw somebody with a theory, “Oh my God, she’s not dead.
They’re sneaking her out of there.
It’s Cassian’s way of getting her free and they think she’s dead.”
Speaking of somebody else that people have been very curious as to whether they survived or not.
We’ve gotAndy Serkis as Kino Loy.
I know there’s a ton of people who are very curious as to whether Kino survived.
He was such a great character.
Are we possibly gonna see him in the future?
He doesn’t die.
I don’t know.
We don’t see him die.
Switching over to Mon Mothma, she makes a huge decision to sell out her family in this.
Can you tell me a little bit about her finally crossing that ethical line?
Because that’s a big jump for her.
She has no place to hide.
She can’t shoot a gun or go jump off a cliff or blow something up.
She has no cathartic physical way to escape from the trap that she’s in.
I mean, just go be her in that moment and consider all the various possibilities.
Because if she goes down, everything goes down and what happens to her family then?
Every decision that she has is tough.
And imagine how that makes her feel?
Because you feel like, “Oh my God, we spent all this time escaping from all that.
Why is she doing this?”
But I have to be.
When I put her on, it’s very uncomfortable.
She doesn’t have a lot of good choices.
We didn’t really know much about Mon Mothma before this.
A lot of different situations don’t just involve themselves.
They have all kinds of subsidiary and collateral damage.
Was avoiding that fantasy element of the Force a way to keep the story grounded?
Was that something you just wanted to push away from?
Well, they’ve done all that already.
I mean, they did all that.
That’s one thing.
I don’t wanna do something that somebody did already.
That’s literally where I start everything, doesn’t matter what it is.
If we can’t do something different, then let’s not do it.
I don’t think they know what any of that stuff is.
It doesn’t concern them.
They’re trying to do their lives and they’re trying to do things.
It’s not just that our show is a new thing.
It also opens the possibilities to all kinds of other things.
Or is it just too much to name?
What I’ve learned is that it’s just epic.
The amount of things that I’ve learned I thought I knew.
I thought I knew everything about scoring movies and music and doing scores for films.
This is what we’re gonna do."
I’ve learned an incredible amount about everything, but I know now how to manage the show better.
I know how to delegate better so I don’t burn out.
I’ve learned the absolute vital necessity of my department heads and my producing partner, Sanne Wohlenberg.
There’s no show nothing would exist without her.
She’s the other half of what I do.
Luke Hull is my production designer, my primary writing companion.
He’s my first collaborator because we have to design everything first.
It’s just a whole fundamental thing.
You don’t know.
You’re really happy you did it, but you’re free to’t believe.
And then you like, “Oh my God, we’re gonna do it again.”
So we’re gonna do it one more time.
And I think everybody is of the hive mind that we know what we have to do.
We can’t let off, we can’t congratulate ourselves or take all this affirmation for granted.
So, there’s a lot.
There’s a big advantage to making your first movie.
You make your first movie because you don’t even know.
You’re like, “I’ll do that.”
And you don’t know you’re going over the Niagara Falls.
It’s not the first jump.
It’s the second one that’s really scary.
So I know the shoot will open, but it’s still “Oh my God.”
This interview has been edited for length and clarity.
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