Let’s be honest: Mon Mothma’s husband kind of sucks.
Warning: This article contains spoilers about episode 4 ofAndor.
Even the future leader of the Rebellion is not immune to romantic woes.
Genevieve O’Reilly as Mon Mothma in ‘Andor’.Lucasfilm Ltd.
There’s no other way to put it: Mon Mothma’s husband sucks.
(Not boring, though.
We’ll give him that.)
Genevieve O’Reilly on ‘Andor’.Lucasfilm Ltd.
ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY: Let’s go back for a minute.
What was that like for you, because I would have been pretty devastated?
And they were so beautiful about that and kind to me as a very young actor.
Stellan Skarsgard and Genevieve O’Reilly on ‘Andor’.Lucasfilm Ltd.
Cinema has to have a singular focus for it to drive, you know?
Cinema doesn’t have a lot of time to tell the story.
So I respected their decision, and when I watched it, it made total sense.
Genevieve O’Reilly on ‘Andor’.Des Willie/Lucasfilm Ltd.
I don’t know, but it looked cool!
It was very sci-fi.
We are loyalists trying to preserve democracy in the Republic."
I think when we meet her inAndor, she’s at the end of that line.
What do you think about her new look here?
We wanted to meet a woman at a different time of her life.
So, we wanted her look to reflect that.
It’s five years before she’s in a bunker, you know?
How would you describe their relationship and what is going on here?
And it’s enjoyable, I think.
you’re able to see it.
you could see the play.
And our exchange completely shifts.
Our exchange becomes about how to fund opposition.
How can she do it?
But she has to do it in a way where nobody sees her.
We know they’re revealing stuff to us, as an audience.
We know we’re taking off those public cloaks, if you will.
But also, what are we hiding from each other?
What are we not telling each other?
It felt like swordplay.
What do you reveal, and what do you hold?
Okay, we need to talk about the marriage.
What can you say about Mon Mothma’s relationship to her husband Perrin Fertha?
It’s awkward, isn’t it?
Mon Mothma has been a Senator since the time she was 16.
What is the orthodoxy that you live in and you have had to live within?
What is that cage?
And he’s exploring that.
He literally says at one point “Must everything be boring and sad?”
That seems to be a pretty wide gulf in terms of their outlook on things.
She has to lose a lot, because her husband is Empire.
Perhaps her life is Empire.
She has to escape it, right?
Or she has to risk stuff.
And she ends up in that rebel bunker.
I think she’s an extraordinarily political beast.
What she’s not revealing is her own passion, her own drive.
So, who can she trust?
What can you say about what’s coming up next from Mon Mothma on this show?
What you have from episode 4 is an understanding that this is a deeply complicated woman.
It’s a bit dirty, it’s a bit gray, it’s a bit shady.
She, perhaps, might make compromising choices that we haven’t seen before.
We have a woman who has the seed of rebellion within her.
That’s what we see inAndor.
We see a woman lean in to the seed of her own rebellion.
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