Summary
AndorSeason 2 officially reached the halfway point this week with the second batch of heartbreaking episodes.
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COLLIDER: Tony, you were right.
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I sobbed my eyes out with this series.
Especially in these first three episodes, we see so much of the Chandrilian culture.
TONY GILROY: Luke Hull, who’s the production designer, is the first person I deal with.
He’s really my primary collaborator creatively.
We had such a thrill making Ferrix, and we went so deep on it.
It was such a payday for us all the way around.
I mean, I can’t even tell you.
Youve got to come up with a new aesthetic.
You don’t want to do anything you did before, so you’re searching for things.
We’re both very, very particular about how things go.
What’s it look like?
What’s the architecture like?
What’s the economy?
Coming up with the culture, the vibe, the language.
Nick Britell and I wrote the national anthem.
How ‘Andor’ Season 2 Brings Chandrilian Culture to Life
I love it.
I love everything that we get to see in this.
you’re free to feel the bits that are imposed on her.
They’re like, Oh, here we go.
You go up to the top, and this is what happens.
Within the same culture, you see really massive differences between maybe the Mothmas and the Sculdens.
It’s so rich.
It informs so much.
So, I think it can’t but inform or add to or create how you watch the rest.
Have you read any of the other books that have Mon in them?
OREILLY: I have to plead ignorance here.
I think it was really important for us to invest in this.
GILROY: It doesn’t help us to do that.
We’ve cast our own spell, so we really venture to tune that out.
But I love how it ends up informing things in the readers minds.
GILROY: I hope so.
I love so much of the world-building in these first three episodes.
Why an agricultural planet?
What went into the decision there in the conception of that?
How do you feed all these people?
So, the idea of this gigantic sort of Soviet commune farm system made sense to me.
Because I love the Tay and Mon dynamic.
OREILLY: The work that we did in Season 1, he was so valuable.
He was everything to her.
He was really her partner in Season 1.
Within Tony’s writing, there are these little layers, and it’s very subtle.
Then in Episode 2, there’s another, and then in Episode 3, there’s another.
Would you say that?
GILROY: I had to really sell this one.
She’s making it sound really easy.
There are a couple of things I had to really sell.
This was a real sales job on my part.
And I’m like, It’s a year later, and he’s Fredo.
How many people do you know in your life, and then a year later, Whoa…
I had to really sell it.
But it was not a slam dunk when I turned that one in, no.
GILROY: No, no, no.
She made it sound really smooth, but no, she was like, Really?
OREILLY: [Laughs] That’s my job.
But Tay Kolma, it’s Fredo.
Why Bail Organa Had To be Recast
I love that.
I do have one spoilery question for the next set of episodes.
The recast of Bail.
How did that come to be?
Was Jimmy [Smits] busy?
I love Benjamin [Bratt], he’s a perfect pick for Bail.
Obviously, in a perfect world, he would come back.
They just couldn’t put it together.
Finally, we have to have him because we have to.
You have to have him.
Ben was such a brilliant get as a replacement.
He’s a fantastic Bail.
I’m just glad it wasn’t the AI de-aging thing or any of that.
I was glad it was a recast, so thank you for that.
GILROY: Me too.
OREILLY: Me too.
