{"id":480705,"date":"2026-02-20T22:35:07","date_gmt":"2026-02-20T22:35:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/480705\/"},"modified":"2026-02-20T22:35:07","modified_gmt":"2026-02-20T22:35:07","slug":"andors-tony-gilroy-gives-interview-he-couldnt-before","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/480705\/","title":{"rendered":"Andor&#8217;s Tony Gilroy Gives Interview He Couldn&#8217;t Before"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\tThe recent tragedies on the streets of Minnesota\u2019s Twin Cities have reignited the discourse about the uncanny prescience of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hollywoodreporter.com\/tv\/tv-reviews\/andor-season-2-review-disney-plus-star-wars-1236195861\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.hollywoodreporter.com\/t\/tony-gilroy\/\" id=\"auto-tag_tony-gilroy_1\" data-tag=\"tony-gilroy\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Tony Gilroy<\/a>\u2018s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hollywoodreporter.com\/t\/andor\/\" id=\"auto-tag_andor_1\" data-tag=\"andor\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Andor<\/a>. The well-documented killings of Minneapolis residents, Ren\u00e9e Good and Alex Pretti, by federal agents evoked Andor season two\u2019s Ghorman Massacre arc in which the masked occupying forces of the Galactic Empire slaughtered concerned citizens and peaceful protestors. And much like Good and Pretti, Ghorman\u2019s victims were immediately mischaracterized by Imperial mouthpieces as domestic terrorists and insurrectionists.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\tOn the subject of clairvoyance, Gilroy downplays such a notion for the simple reason that he based his Emmy-winning series on historical records.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\t\u201cYou get out your Fascism for Dummies book for the 15 things you do, and we tried to include as many of them as we could in the most artful way possible,\u201d GIlroy tells The Hollywood Reporter. \u201cHow were we supposed to know that this clown car in Washington was going to basically use the same book that we used? So I don\u2019t think it\u2019s prescience so much as the sad familiarity of fascism.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\tFascism is a word that Disney asked Gilroy to refrain from saying during the earlier promotional phases of Andor\u2019s spring 2025 release. When one considers how much energy is devoted to generating political outrage, it\u2019s understandable why the studio would not want the marketing of its most decorated series to be overshadowed by such noise. Bear in mind, they had just put out their live-action remake of Snow White, which conservative media used as a culture-war punching bag for nearly four years.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\t\u201cThe actors have a broad spectrum of political ideas, and we didn\u2019t want anybody to perjure themselves or violate their conscience. So we came up with a legit historical model,\u201d Gilroy says of Andor\u2019s promotional message. \u201cIt was a very, very safe and legitimate place for us to sell the show without ever having to say what I\u2019m free to say now.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\tBelow, during a recent conversation with THR, Gilroy sounds off on the current direction of the United States in relation to Andor. Then he addresses the recent report \u2014\u00a0one that was quickly denied \u2014\u00a0that the new co-president of Lucasfilm, Dave Filoni, was not a fan of his series. <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\t***<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\tSagrona.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\tSagrona teema!<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\tSo this is the interview you couldn\u2019t really give during the run of Andor.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\tYeah, we never were overtly misleading, but we were being delicate.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\tYou devoted nearly a decade of your life to making <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hollywoodreporter.com\/t\/star-wars\/\" id=\"auto-tag_star-wars_1\" data-tag=\"star-wars\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Star Wars<\/a> \u2026<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\tOh God, don\u2019t say it like that. (Laughs.)<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\tWell, when you finally put it in your rear-view mirror and started making a movie called Behemoth!, real life, as it\u2019s done before, eerily mimics numerous story points in Andor. Can you take me through your thought process as you\u2019ve watched the reporting out of the Twin Cities?\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\tWell, on a human citizen level, it\u2019s just an absolute gothic nightmare. The simplest answer to the strange synchronicity of all of this is really on them, the outside forces. We were pretty much doing a story about authoritarianism and fascism, and the Empire is very clearly a great example of that. It\u2019s a great place to deal with those issues, and as we\u2019ve discussed many times before, we had this wide open canvas to deal with it.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\tSo you get out your Fascism for Dummies book for the 15 things you do, and we tried to include as many of them as we could in the most artful way possible. How were we supposed to know that this clown car in Washington was going to basically use the same book that we used? So I don\u2019t think it\u2019s prescience so much as the sad familiarity of fascism and the karaoke menu of things that you go through to do it. You could list them from the show, or you could list them from the newspaper.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\tIn the beginning, it was very confusing. People were like, \u201cOh, you\u2019re psychic,\u201d or, \u201cThe show is prescient.\u201d But in the rear-view mirror, it\u2019s really a much sadder explanation than that.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\tYes, you were inspired by history books, including the use of pretext.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\tYeah, it\u2019s the same shit all the time. Get rid of truth, get rid of a free press, destroy communities, nationalize the businesses, find an arbitrary enemy that you can elevate and false flag them through propaganda. Flood the zone with as much gak and atrocity as you can so that nobody can pay attention to what just happened, and pray that you have an overwhelming majority of sheep that will follow you. It\u2019s just tragically and sadly familiar. It\u2019s on them; it\u2019s not on us.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\tIn Andor\u2019s case, the Empire wanted a Ghorman mineral for their superweapon, and so they cultivated pretext for their occupation of Ghorman by blaming a local insurgency they empowered through Syril Karn (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.hollywoodreporter.com\/tv\/tv-features\/andor-star-kyle-soller-on-syril-season-2-1236210117\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">Kyle Soller<\/a>). The current administration sent ICE and other related agencies to Minnesota to deport undocumented people. But in late January, the DOJ requested the state\u2019s voter rolls, among other conditions, in exchange for a reduced presence. Do you consider the immigration crackdown to just be a pretext for larger election-related goals?\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\tYeah, but I think it\u2019s much more terrifying than that. I\u2019m having a great deal of difficulty \u2014\u00a0and have had a great deal of difficulty over the past few months \u2014\u00a0just watching really smart, good people try to make sense of what\u2019s going on by normalizing it in the slightest and trying to bring normalized conversations to this topic. I think the overall goal is to stop elections and to have a complete fascistic state. Any controversy that they can make and elevate to a hysterical pitch allows them to cancel elections or modify elections in any way they want. I think fair elections are what they\u2019re absolutely after.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\tBut I think they\u2019ve been stymied by their own stupidity. Fortunately for us, they have only a few of the pieces that you really need to take over. They have an incredible appetite. They have an incredible flood-the-zone ground game, but they have no narrative ability. They don\u2019t really have a [Joseph] Goebbels or a Mike Deaver in there. They don\u2019t have a presentation. They don\u2019t have a Leni Riefenstahl in there. They do not have a way to get their message out in a narrative fashion. They\u2019re terrible at that, and they\u2019re never going to be good at it.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\tSo I don\u2019t think they\u2019re going to get over, but I think the ultimate goal was always to get rid of the elections completely and just do a complete takeover. I don\u2019t see any other plausible endgame for them.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\tIt\u2019s the same playbook in Venezuela. Drugs and democracy were the pretext for regime change, but the first order of business was oil, not drugs or elections.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\tGhorman is Greenland. Ghorman is anything. \u201cWe want the rare earth, we want this.\u201d It really is just a crude laundry list of moves that they have, and my earlier answer stands for the way it rhymes with the show.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\tThe rush to control the narrative was also something you covered. Peaceful protesters on Ghorman were regarded as terrorists. The Ghor had no way to correct the Empire\u2019s account because they didn\u2019t have cell phone footage like the Minnesotans who countered the White House\u2019s version of events. Mon\u2019s big speech relates directly to this, as does the Ghorman senator\u2019s line, \u201cThey don\u2019t even bother to lie badly anymore. I suppose that\u2019s the final humiliation.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\tThey don\u2019t even care. They don\u2019t even have to lie well.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\tBut even the objective reality that technology provides us is under threat from AI. Perhaps that\u2019s a big reason why it\u2019s being force-fed to us. It further eliminates truth and fragments our realities even more.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\tI\u2019m not sure, and perhaps it will be the final fallacy that I\u2019m living under. I completely lost my predictive powers years ago when Trump was elected the first time, and perhaps I\u2019m still missing something fundamental. I used to think that I was really on top of this shit, but I don\u2019t think they have that kind of game. Everyone\u2019s wondering, \u201cWhy is Silicon Valley going along with all this? Why hasn\u2019t anybody raised their hand?\u201d And I think that there\u2019s a much more terrifying tech reich that\u2019s lurking in the background of all of this. That is actually sophisticated, and I don\u2019t think the Trump people are in control of any of that.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\tThey might be hitchhikers \u2014\u00a0and they might have opportunistic reasons to be at the same banquet with those people \u2014 but I don\u2019t think that they\u2019re aligned with them in any way. I have a feeling there are some sleeping giants out there that are just looking at this as a really wonderful dormant moment to capture market share or just run wild with AI before anybody pays attention to what\u2019s really going on.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\tIt becomes part of the cascade of failures. \u201cLet\u2019s lose everything to China. Let\u2019s get rid of all of our vaccines and get sick.\u201d To walk away from the opportunities of climate change is the classic one, because climate is the big moneymaker. China is going to make all the money on it now, and we\u2019re just letting that go because we have a business president who\u2019s on coal. He might as well be out going for whale oil. It\u2019s like, \u201cWhat the fuck?\u201d It\u2019s really extraordinary how many fundamental things are wrong.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\tThe perfect president and the perfect monitoring of AI and the perfect global summit meetings would\u2019ve gathered like-minded governments together to say, \u201cHey, how much trouble are we in? What\u2019s going to happen to the labor force? What\u2019s going to happen to society because of AI?\u201d But none of those things are going to happen now, and we will suffer for it.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\tI do know that the Biden Administration had some form of guardrails in place that were quickly rescinded by the Trump Administration. That was part of their half-a-trillion-dollar investment in AI data centers.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\tYeah, I think that there were people in the Biden administration who were really struggling to understand it and get their arms around it. I know there\u2019s a lot of people in Europe that are really thinking about it, but I\u2019m not sure it can be contained. It\u2019s terrifying every time I look at it, and it changes so much, month to month, that it\u2019s very difficult to figure out. But could there be a worse bunch of clowns in charge of it right now? No. You couldn\u2019t set the bar any lower than where it\u2019s being set in Washington right now.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\tAny video of Ren\u00e9e Good and Alex Pretti\u2019s shootings in Minnesota had numerous, \u201cIs this real?\u201d comments underneath them. It\u2019s chilling that we\u2019re already questioning everything we see.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\tIt\u2019s a terrifying, mysterious future that\u2019s approaching, and we just don\u2019t have time to think about it because we\u2019re so underwater worrying about all this other unnecessary shit. This is a sidebar, but all the guilds are starting their labor conversations now, and I wish I could say that the guilds have a really good handle on AI after all the research they\u2019ve been doing.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\tWe\u2019ll probably never fully find out about the Cassian, Luthen (Stellan Skarsg\u00e5rd) and Kleya (Elizabeth Dulau) types who are working behind the scenes to protect democracy, but among the democratic politicians, do you see enough <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hollywoodreporter.com\/tv\/tv-features\/andor-genevieve-oreilly-mon-mothma-1236199278\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">Mon Mothmas <\/a>and Bail Organas rising to the occasion?\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\tTo be an effective leader, you have to have both skill sets. You have to be a problem solver who\u2019s curious, empathetic, progressive, involved and sophisticated. That includes a pretty wide ideological spectrum, from center, center-left and center-right. I respond to people that are empathetic technocrats in a way. I really like proper problem solving, and I don\u2019t really like doctrinaire ideological answers.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\tBeyond all that, I yearn for storytellers, and I yearn for people that communicate. I\u2019m always frustrated by politicians that I really like when they can\u2019t get their messages out. The Biden White House had a great story to tell, but they never had a messenger or any way to sell it whatsoever. The Obama White House, in the end, the postmortem on that was some poor messaging about what was going on. I just think that messaging is really overlooked. Controlling the narrative is really valuable. The progressive politics and democratic politics and sensible politics have really failed in great measure by not having really good stories to tell and not telling them properly.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\tYeah, there are plenty of democratic leaders who are not meeting the moment. That was another point you illustrated, whether it was through the infighting among Rebel cells, or the red tape the Rebel Alliance put in Cassian\u2019s way.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\tWe literally tried to get every aspect of that experience in there.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\tThen there\u2019s all the parallels to Narkina 5. Cassian was sent to that prison unlawfully, and there have been numerous stories about people who\u2019ve been wrongfully detained in ICE detention centers. I know you\u2019ve answered the prescience question at length already, but I just want the readers to be reminded of all the items you accounted for in the show. It must be conflicting to hear it all laid out.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\tWe\u2019re proud of the show. God, we\u2019re proud of the show. That\u2019s our sustaining takeaway. We were stunned [about the prescience] for a while, but we\u2019ve really gotten to the point where it\u2019s really sad. It\u2019s just sad how predictable and lame and obvious and wrong it all is. Fascism is just a total fail in the end. It eats itself up in the end. So this will have been an incredible waste of time, an incredibly wasted opportunity and an incredibly dark period in America\u2019s history that it may never recover from.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\tYou were quoted as saying, \u201cFascism doesn\u2019t just take down the oppressed. It doesn\u2019t just come for the people it\u2019s trying to control. It inevitably destroys the people who have worked the hardest to build it.\u201d And we\u2019ve seen some notable examples of that recently.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\tYeah, it\u2019s really interesting to watch the moment of realization where they\u2019re suddenly cast off the island. Just read a little deeper into your Fascism for Dummies book, and go to the last chapter to see what\u2019s going to happen.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\tYou said not too long ago that you couldn\u2019t use the words fascism and genocide during early promotion of the show. And I do understand where the studio is coming from in not wanting the promotion of a show to be overshadowed by outrage media. James Gunn referred to Superman as an \u201cimmigrant,\u201d and conservative media pounced on it to no end. Did you have a hard time talking around the show you made?\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\tWe didn\u2019t. Diego [Luna] and I had some early, super long-lead press, and we tiptoed out. We were like, \u201cOh my God, this is really electric.\u201d So we stepped back, and we had a bunch of people that we were going to put on the road to sell the show. The actors have a broad spectrum of political ideas, and we didn\u2019t want anybody to perjure themselves or violate their conscience. So we came up with a legit historical model, and it\u2019s a version of what I\u2019m telling you now. \u201cWe studied history to make the show, and we based it on historical models. We don\u2019t have a crystal ball. There\u2019s comps for everything that we did all through history.\u201d So that was a very, very safe and legitimate place for us to sell the show without ever having to say what I\u2019m free to say now.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\tKathleen Kennedy has left the Lucasfilm building. You\u2019ve stated many times that Andor\u2019s success wouldn\u2019t have been possible without her backing your play, economically and creatively. The obvious takeaway here is that there\u2019s an appetite for Star Wars to be bold. But based on Kathy\u2019s exit interview with Deadline, the studio seems hesitant to take on riskier projects she championed, including one from your friend <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.hollywoodreporter.com\/movies\/movie-news\/steven-soderbergh-disney-ben-solo-star-wars-movie-1236508983\/\">Steven Soderbergh<\/a>, and another from your Andor writer, Beau Willimon, and James Mangold. Will you be disappointed if Andor doesn\u2019t yield more mature stories and is forever the outlier in the Star Wars catalog?<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\tDisappointed would be too strong a word. What would I feel? I don\u2019t know. I\u2019m not an investor. I don\u2019t have the responsibility. I don\u2019t have that portfolio on my desk. I don\u2019t know how I would behave if it was my ass on the line and there\u2019s X amount of money. The problem is there\u2019s no inexpensive way to do these shows [or movies]. I\u2019m watching the [Games of] Thrones spinoff now, the low-key, the low-fi one [A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms]. It\u2019s very refreshing in that it\u2019s so nice and down there.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\tBut I don\u2019t know what it would be like to make those decisions, and I don\u2019t know if I\u2019d be disappointed [if Andor is a creative outlier]. If I was going to do that job, I would rather go down swinging. I\u2019d rather go down in flames. As low-risk as my life is, my creative life is pretty high-risk, so I\u2019d like to swing away. Safety has never been one of my navigational principles. But disappointed? It doesn\u2019t matter to me what they do. I wish them luck. I really do.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\tDave Filoni is now co-running Lucasfilm with Lynwen Brennan. He\u2019s a George Lucas prot\u00e9g\u00e9 who\u2019s known for being a Star Wars purist. I <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.hollywoodreporter.com\/tv\/tv-features\/the-mandalorian-dave-filoni-grogu-star-wars-1235338924\/\">asked<\/a> him a few years ago what he thought of Andor, and he had nothing but praise for your work. Adjectives like \u201cbrilliant\u201d, \u201cfantastic\u201d and \u201cgreat\u201d were used. However, <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.thewrap.com\/media-platforms\/film-studios\/dave-filoni-explainer-lucasfilm-star-wars\/\">The Wrap<\/a> recently reported that he wasn\u2019t a fan of Andor, something Lucasfilm immediately denied. Did you ever sense any creative or philosophical disagreement from Filoni?\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\tNo. We\u2019ve only met a couple times, and we\u2019ve only had a half-a-dozen conversations over the last ten years. Seriously. I saw Jon Favreau at a scoring session once. We\u2019ve always gotten along with those guys, and we\u2019ve never had anything but high praise for everything that they\u2019ve done. We only have our show because of them, and we\u2019ve always said that was true. There\u2019s no Andor without The Mandalorian. It would not exist. So it has never been anything but cordial and pleasant, ever, ever, ever, ever. I don\u2019t know anything that you don\u2019t know. I really don\u2019t. [Writer\u2019s Note: The internet created a similar rivalry between Rian Johnson and J.J. Abrams during the Star Wars sequel trilogy. Abrams recently hosted a Q&amp;A for Johnson\u2019s new movie, Wake Up Dead Man.]<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\tYou had a very rewarding experience developing Andor\u2019s score with your neighbor Nicholas Britell and eventually Brandon Roberts. Did those collaborations spark your upcoming movie about a composer in some way, shape or form?<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\tNo, but it\u2019s part of it. My obsession with music started much longer ago than that. I started playing in bands when I was 11, and I had some fantasy at some moment in my life of being a studio musician, which was a very quickly dashed notion. I was way into it. And then the moment I started directing, I was way into the scoring and the music. When we were doing the score for Rogue [One] on that Sony stage with the huge orchestra and [composer] Michael [Giacchino]. I was just like, \u201cMan, there\u2019s got to be a movie here. There just has to be a movie here.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\tI did a lot of research on it, and it was happy research. I\u2019m never happier than when I\u2019m dealing with music. But I couldn\u2019t find a hook for the movie. And while we were doing Andor, I was increasingly activating the musical part of myself that is such a happy place for me. So I kept wishing I could figure out how to do this movie, and I didn\u2019t find the hook for it until we were wrapping on Andor. I finally found a hook, a way to do the movie. So Andor was a finishing school in scoring, for sure, because it\u2019s 20 hours of music. I learned a lot from it, but all it did was increase my enthusiasm to try to get Behemoth! made.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\tI heard that a bunch of notable composers are contributing music to it. Are Britell or Roberts involved?\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\tThere will be nine composers all in. Nick is not one of the nine, but Brandon is doing a cue. We\u2019re cooking it downstairs now. We\u2019re just starting to edit.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\tYou haven\u2019t directed since 2012\u2019s The Bourne Legacy. How long did it take you to get your sea legs back on set?\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\tThat\u2019s a really good question. It\u2019s daunting. When you\u2019re showrunner, you\u2019re too busy and too powerful to even direct. But when the set becomes your set, suddenly it\u2019s like, \u201cOh man.\u201d It took a few days to feel comfy in it, but I don\u2019t know if you should ever get too comfortable as a director.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\tI have one nitpick regarding Andor season two.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\tGo for it!\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\tI just wish that Bix (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.hollywoodreporter.com\/tv\/tv-features\/andor-diego-luna-adria-arjona-1236195763\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Adria Arjona<\/a>) got to go on a full mission with Cassian. I keep imagining her as Varian Skye\u2019s muse. Were there any budgetary limitations that prevented such a scenario?<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\tNo, but there are other things that we did for budgetary reasons. I put a [Bix and Cassian mission] off screen. In the first scene at the safe house [in 204], they\u2019re talking about a mission they just came off of where he killed somebody who saw their faces. So often in films or whatever, it\u2019s not what you want to say; it\u2019s where you can say it. Where\u2019s the opportunity to do it? It certainly would\u2019ve been fun and easy to write interesting things for them to do together, but where do you put it? How does it fit? What\u2019s its application? So it happens to take place off screen in the year before the Coruscant safe house.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\tIn closing, do you have any parting words as the Andor chapter of your life concludes?<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\tWe did our last guild Q&amp;A last night with [writers] Tom Bissell and Danny [Gilroy]. We\u2019re really at the end of talking about it. They\u2019re putting together a coffee table book, The Art of Andor, and they asked me to write a foreword for it. I had a whole bunch of homework while I was doing the movie, and I kept looking at it, going, \u201cWhat is this?\u201d So I finally opened the book, and I was like, \u201cOh my God.\u201d I wasn\u2019t just incredibly nostalgic. Every page has ideas that we talked about over the course of a million meetings, and it\u2019s just so good. The whole thing was just so overwhelming.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\tIn the foreword, I really leaned on how many people and how much insanity it took to pull our sled, and how cool and fun a process it was. A bunch of really talented people were encouraged to be as maniacal as they wanted to be for a long period of time. It really was a hive mind mania among [EPs] Sanne [Wohlenberg,] Johnny [Gilroy], Luke [Hull] and Kathy. So I\u2019m proud of the way that we managed the company and all those thousands of people that worked on the show.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\tTo be proud of the thing that you made in the end and have so many people respond to it, it\u2019s really been such a pleasing chapter. I\u2019m sorry to leave it behind, and I\u2019m glad I have something else to distract me so I don\u2019t have any major post-project letdown.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\tSeeing your brother Dan accept his writing Emmy for \u201cWelcome to the Rebellion\u201d must\u2019ve been another prideful moment.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\tIt was, yeah. All that stuff is good. But looking to awards for affirmation, I\u2019m old enough now, and I\u2019ve been through it enough, to know that it\u2019s just not good for you. If that\u2019s where you\u2019re going to get your value, then you\u2019ve missed the point. It would really be a shame to be as old as I am and to have that be a motivator. As silly and trite as it sounds, it really is about the process. If you\u2019re not enjoying it while you\u2019re doing it along the way, you\u2019re missing the train.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\tSo I\u2019m not sure if we\u2019ll ever see something like Andor again \u2014\u00a0made live, not by AI. Will someone ever spend that kind of money to make something live again [on streaming]? I don\u2019t know if that will ever happen again, but what a great thing it is to be able to have done it. We got away with it, and we feel pretty good about it.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\t***<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The recent tragedies on the streets of Minnesota\u2019s Twin Cities have reignited the discourse about the uncanny prescience&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":480706,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[19666,88,5295,57178],"class_list":["post-480705","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-andor","tag-entertainment","tag-star-wars","tag-tony-gilroy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/480705","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=480705"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/480705\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/480706"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=480705"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=480705"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=480705"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}