But it’s not exactly clear which incident was the final push he needed to move away from complacency.

Well, Luna thinks it’s both.

The actor explained:

The prison is about, he realizes how fucked up things are in this galaxy.

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He realizes how little the life of people means to the Empire.

There’s no personality there.

He realizes that prison is just a metaphor of the life out there.

Diego Luna as Cassian Andor points a weapon in Andor episode 12.

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You don’t have to be in that prison to be living in a prison.

He’s always running away.

That he can’t call that life.

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It’s the wake-up call, and it arrives too late.

He just realizes he always had it there.

That the words she was saying were true.

The entire first season ofAndoris streaming now on Disney+.

Check out our interview with Luna from before the premiere: