It’s been an extended look forward to Andor Season 2, with Season 1 wrapping again in November 2022. Thankfully, that wait gained’t final an excessive amount of longer, because the upcoming Star Wars TV present is lastly set to reach on the 2025 TV schedule in late April. Mother Mothma is among the many many characters followers who’ve a Disney+ subscription will reunite with, however in case you thought issues had been doing to get simpler for Genevieve O’Reilly’s character on this subsequent season, suppose once more. In actual fact, Andor creator Tony Gilroy describes what’s forward for her in Season 2 as “hellacious,” as if I wasn’t already sympathizing with Mothma sufficient.
Throughout Andor Season 1, Mon Mothma was nonetheless serving because the senator from Chandrila, however she was additionally secretly elevating funds for the Insurgent Alliance, with Stellan Skarsgård’s Luthen Rael being one among her fundamental contacts. However as Tony Gilroy, who helmed the Rogue One reshoots and is the mastermind behind Andor, defined to EW, we’re coming as much as the interval of Star Wars historical past the place she’s compelled to depart the Senate and change into one of many Revolt’s public figures:
Canonically, there’s the second the place she leaves the Senate, and that is in our timeline. So we’re undoubtedly coping with that, however I might say, of all of the characters within the present, of all of the hellacious issues that folks undergo, and all the difficulties and hardships, I do not suppose anyone has a tougher street than she does. As a result of she has to do all the pieces that everyone else does with all the strain, concern, and anxiousness and she or he has to do it in public.
Those that watched Star Wars Rebels will bear in mind in Season 3 that the primary characters had been tasked with transporting Mon Mothma to security after the Empire began looking for her when she spoke out publicly in opposition to Emperor Palpatine. Andor Season 2 will present the lead-up to that, although that’s removed from the one drawback on her plate. Let’s additionally not overlook that in Season 1, Mothma needed to take care of strained relationships with each her husband and daughter. Whereas O’Reilly’s character has already made preparations for her husband to take the autumn if the Empire discovers discrepancies in her monetary accounts, her daughter displaying an curiosity in Chandrilan courtship custom isn’t as simply dealt with.
Going again to Mon Mothma getting on the Empire’s unhealthy aspect in Andor Season 2, Tony Gilroy additionally had the next variety phrases to say about Genevieve’s O’Reilly’s efficiency on this Disney+ Star Wars present:
She has nowhere to cover, and this season simply ramps that as much as an nearly insufferable level. What Genevieve goes to do on this second season — we realized within the first season what a superb actress she was and that we hadn’t discovered the boundaries of what she might do. We nonetheless have not discovered them. However he alternative to put in writing for her and write her story massive was essential to me within the second season.
As a result of Andor Season 2 will leap ahead a yr each three episodes, by the point the present is finished, Mon Mothma will probably be the place we discover her shortly earlier than the occasions of Rogue One and A New Hope. That means, her political profession within the Empire has lengthy since concluded and now she’s one of many Revolt’s main figureheads. We all know she’ll make it by to the tip of the Galactica Civil Struggle and change into Chancellor of the New Republic, as seen in Ahsoka, however I do know it’ll be tough watching her endure much more hardship throughout this last batch of Andor episodes.
Andor Season 2 premieres April 22 on Disney+, with three episodes being launched weekly till Might 13. On Star Wars’ movie aspect of issues, The Mandalorian & Grogu opens in theaters on Might 22, 2026.