Tony Gilroy is a man with a vision.
So that became a very rapid explorationyou have basically a year to work on the show.
What hasnt reversed in that time wasAndors favor.
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Upon release, audiences and critics picked up on whatAndorwas doing, leading to rave reviews.
Which we were just about to start shooting, because the alternative was to just not do it.
But its also arriving in a form that Gilroy initially scrambled to adapt to.
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I would start with existence, for thats the first one.
The hubris and naivete and stupidity with which I entered this process, we all kind of did.
How are we going to do these five years?
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It was just impossible, absolutely impossible.
For Gilroy however, the consolidation was ultimately a galvanizing one.
Youll see howmuchwe have to say about it.
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I wouldnt do it any differently.
It was a great opportunity to get a different look and get a different thing.
I never think about anything thematically, or where I want a character to go.
I was like, Oh, okay, let me sketch a suit.
There must be someone investigating [Cassian killing two corporate cops].
Heres this guy, and hes investigating.
Oh my god, he could be like Javert.
He could be like, an obsessive dude.
Let me start with that.
You write that, and youre like well, where am I going with this?
Im finding the characters all the way through, much in the same way the audience is finding them.
Im getting them on their feet, and Im going teaspoon by teaspoon by teaspoon, Gilroy continued.
Thats how I do it.
It would shock people how things start there.
For Gilroy, however, that was part of what would ultimately make the character who he is.
My take on Syril is a little bit different than some people, Gilroy ruminated.
I think he was eager for acceptance, but passionately in need of that acceptance.
This will violate everything that I just said in the previous answer, Gilroy laughed.
Enter Nemik, the manifesto-writing insurgent.
Everyone has their own story about how theyre there… and I went I should really have a Trotsky.
I should really have a young Russian,' Gilroy continued.
I should have a dialectic character who introduces another note to the chorus of his education.
Where Cassian ultimately is going by the end of the first season is back home to Ferrix.
Narratively, I know I have to do thatI have to bring everybody back in one place again.
Thats the hardest thing in spy movies.
So lets have everybody come back for this funeral.
Thats the found object that, if youre writing really well, presents itself.
The other thing is mechanicalI gotta get everybody there.
And theres some fancy screenwriting to get everybody there!
Its the things that people dont notice, things that are tricky.
And thats a very satisfying feeling when all that can come together at the end of 12 hours.
And so with that realization we and Cassian alike march into season two.
Organized rebellion has begun to emerge across the galaxy, and with it, aworld of familiarity.
The black-helmeted Imperial military will be supplanted more and more by the familiar white armor of Stormtroopers.
It wants to feel inevitable.
I have Mon Mothma leaving the Senate, her big moment to leave, thats on my calendar.
So we actually have a mystery there at the end that has to be really solved.
But dont mistake any of that for a checklist.
More than that, we dont care about, Gilroy added.
We would never add anybody for fun.
Were not going to add anybody for a smile or a wink or anything like that.
Theres nothing in there thats some juicy tidbit just for the hell of it.
Everything has to be organic.
Andorwill return to Disney+ for its second season from April 22.
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