The tip of one more Star Wars period is sort of upon us. Andor Season 2 is about to maneuver from the slate of upcoming Star Wars motion pictures and TV exhibits slate and start airing on the 2025 TV schedule, with three episodes being weekly on Disney+. As soon as the 12-episode season is over, it’s going to wrap up Diego Luna’s time as Cassian Andor, because the present is main straight into the occasions of Rogue One. Whereas there has hypothesis that Luna needed to depart Andor after Season 2, the actor knowledgeable CinemaBlend that he had nothing however a optimistic expertise engaged on the Star Wars collection because it reaches its conclusion.
Our personal Jeff McCobb spoke with Luna, who was seated subsequent to Bix Caleen actress Adria Arjona, through the Andor Season 2 junket, and among the many questions he requested him was out he felt about bringing Cassian Andor to an finish. The star of Kiss of the Spider Girl, which opens on the 2025 motion pictures schedule in October, answered:
Rattling, it feels good, man. It feels good. It has been 10 fantastic years. I have been waking up day by day with the necessity to to do extra, to maintain going to work, to maintain interacting with this household, with this neighborhood. I’ve realized so much. I am lucky, and it has been a very long time. It has been a very long time, and and I am nonetheless having fun with each second of it. And I need to depart it that means. I need to depart it in a really optimistic notice. What I went by means of, I am conserving, and that is all that issues.
This summer time marks the 10-year anniversary of when Rogue One, the second Star Wars film of the Disney period, started filming, with its launch to the general public coming in December 2016. On condition that the film ended with Cassian and the opposite principal characters dying, it understandably appeared on the time like he can be a one-and carried out character. Nevertheless, due to Andor, we’ve been been in a position to observe together with the title character within the half decade main as much as him perishing on Scarif alongside Jyn Erso. So Luna bought to stay round in a galaxy far, far-off for a decade, one thing he’s loved immensely.
Though it had initially been deliberate for Andor to run 5 seasons, present creator Tony Gilroy defined that this in the end simply wasn’t possible. The choice to finish the present after two seasons was “born out of desperation” after he realized simply how “monumental” an effort it was placing Andor collectively throughout Season 1. Moreover, since it is a Rogue One prequel, Gilroy added that, “Diego’s face couldn’t take the timing, as a result of it simply takes too lengthy to make it.”
So somewhat than dedicating one season to cowl a yr main as much as Rogue One, Andor Season 2 has as a substitute devoted three episodes every to peek in on what Cassian Andor is as much as within the subsequent years after the occasions of Season 1. The tip end result appears to have paid off, as Season 2 has already earned numerous early optimistic reception. And whereas Diego Luna is leaving Cassian behind him, he’ll all the time be a member of the Star Wars household, and he’s undoubtedly grateful for the expertise.
Andor Season 2 premieres tomorrow on Disney+, and the collection will conclude on Could 13. After that, subsequent on the live-action Star Wars TV entrance is Ahsoka Season 2, which doesn’t have a launch date but.