We spoke w/ Andor’s Adria Arjona about her character's relationship with Diego Luna's Cassian Andor and the way Tony Gilroy created new worlds and characters.
With Andor arriving on Disney+ September 21st, I recently got to speak with Adria Arjona about making the newest Star Wars series. Andor is a two-season event that starts five years before the events of Rogue One. The first season will cover a year, while the second season will cover the next four years in 3-episode blocks.
ADRIA ARJONA: Yeah, it really is a true origin story of such a great character that we already know and love. And I think Tony did such a great job of creating these new worlds that are so intricate and so smart and interesting Ferrix for example, is a place where of everyone is sort of the same. You don't see hierarchies and economical disbalance is everyone's sort of a worker, and they all sort share things.
ARJONA: Yeah. I had one scene where they were like, you got to run. And I was like, all, where do you want? And the directors where do you want? Cause they could point the camera pretty much everywhere. I was going in one specific direction because Ferrix does have a very specific geographical map. But either in this particular place that I was both ways would leave me to the same place. So it was like, wherever you want. And that was really cool.
That doesn't, that's not usual. He just really wants you to get in that mindset and start preparing your gears to embark on this new journey. He wants you to think on your own and think as big. So I could then have my own ideas and opinions. I would never give an opinion on his writing because why would I? I would make it worse, man, but it gives you the option. That is what is so respectable of him. I am in awe of that man.