Andor's Tony Gilroy and Genevieve O'Reilly break the key dance of Mon Mothma
The first three episodes Ando Season 2 finally streamed on Disney+ Star Wars Rebellion.
In an interview with Tony Gilroy and Star Genevieve O'Reilly, who played Mon Mothma, IO9, the duo broke the last moment of the third episode of the week's decline. Gilroy also discusses how these key years are structured when the three-episode mini-film emerges.
Sabina Graves, IO9: The original plan was Ando There were five seasons to run, each covering a year, but it evolved into these three episodes of the “movie” arc. As you move forward, how many backstory are provided?
Tony Gilroy: I think when we came up with this idea and started trying it out, I initially thought, “Oh my goodness, okay…will it work? Will there be a lot of fairs when we come back?” Where do people have to say, “Oh, since I last met you…”? I don't want to do that, if you ask me at the beginning, I'll be like, “Oh, I'm going to have to write a huge negative space Bible where all the things that happen in between will release these other memos, and that's the other whole month of writing and the whole month No,,,,, No.
I mean in episode 4, Adria [Arjona] and Diego [Luna] It really needs to know what happened to the soldiers and what happened to the mission. That jump is specific; they need to know something, but when we go, there are few problems. The pickup, the beginning of the plot people are in and what they are saying, seems so usable that I never had to write memos for it. I had some conversations about this, but I never looked back and did the heavy lifting that I thought of at first, no.
IO9: Genevieve, is it really free to find the negative spaces that are covered in these years of growth and those that are covered in the spacious spaces that are built in the establishment of rebellion? I found her especially relaxing moments in episode 3, So Catholic. Can you take me to where you unfolded for her at that moment?
Genevieve O'Reilly: Yes, I mean the first three episodes take place within three days. It is in her ancestors’ homes, in her family culture. I was really excited about her history, we didn’t – like Tony said, the big fairs were rare. Just: She is like this, this is habit, this is ritual. We understand it implicitly, and then it goes on that three-day wedding, and a relationship with our daughter, her husband, her in-laws, and then family relationships there, and then there Luthen – a lot of things happened. As we walked to the sharp end of these three episodes, you did feel the meaning of where she was at that time, not just those family-type weights—the strict tension about that wedding, but with Luson there, a clear entry to her friend Tay Colma.
We know Tay Colma very well from season one, he's her fierce ally, so we start season two as he's very loose, very tight, or she sees it in him. Just like he saw those fake golden idols of Davos Sculdun, he was drinking and he wanted some of them, it was an implicit threat.
Of course, she saw her friend, and she thought it was something to say, but Luthen certainly saw it- his vision was even more cruel, and he called her it. He calls her romanticism, and he really demands that she be truly honest about her rebellion. He asked her to have that blood on her hands, and she agreed by default, so the moment you were going to talk about, the movement, culture and the celebrations were also a woman who just wrestled with her own internal chaos.
IO9: It's a beautiful moment, dancing and drinking – Tony, what do you think is the power and beauty of being with everyone else at the intersection with where everyone else is?
Gilroy: My brother John was with me forever, he was just a builder, a late-production manufacturer – we built a lot of crescendo measures. We’ve learned how to build these crescendos in movies that have been made over the years and then did that in the funeral season one. So it is really a very complex crescendo, and we are using a very unusual electronic dance music. I'm going to join Cassian and save the day, and Mon Mothma's hand is on hers and Edy shows up at lunch. I can do everything at once.
I'm very happy with the three ends. I'm going to talk about another thing about Mon on the dance floor: it does another thing. It tied the audience to her because the only person in that room who knew what happened to you and her. Everyone else is partying, everyone else is dancing, but you know what she does, so it only creates a relationship with the audience. I love how it binds the audience to the characters.
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