Andor's Tony Gilroy told his crew to put away their love of StarWars: 'They’ll put on a Star Wars [costume], and all of a sudden, this great actor...starts acting differently. And you go, 'Wait, no...You’re here because we want you to be real''
fans, but thanks to you, I no longer hold that opinion., and I think it’s because you’re not coming from a place of nostalgia. So do you still believe that not being a lifelong fan is your “superpower”? because that was my point of entry. It wasn’t that I didn’t like it. It just wasn’t on my radar. I wasn’t in awe of it. So when I came in here to futz around and repair [], I knew I’d do my thing. I was going to bring my thing here. And it worked.
: Tony Gilroy and Diego Luna on the set of Lucasfilm’s ANDOR, exclusively on Disney+. ©2022 Lucasfilm Ltd. & TM. All Rights Reserved.I just referenced your conversation with writer Brian Koppelman in 2017, and at the time, it sounded like you didn’t expect to return toThey tried to do a couple different versions of this show along the way. I wasn’t really interested, but the people that were trying it were feeling a little bit trapped in what we just discussed, this reverence for.
So they went back and pulled this old memo, and they were like, “We want to do this now.” They wanted to be that ambitious on this scale, and the timing was right for me. I had a bunch of other things fall apart. I was getting a little tired of things falling apart, and the one thing that they definitely have is an audience. So it wasn’t an overnight thing that you tiptoe into. It takes a long time. Everybody tiptoes forward, but that’s how it came to be.
And so the first decision you have to make is who’s going to be your production designer. Even in writing, my first call is to the production designer, because everything we do has to be designed. So we put a marker down. It was kind of a test for Disney: “How serious are you?” We didn’t want to go with any of the traditionalpeople. We wanted [production designer] Luke Hull, who was like 12 years old and had just donein every way. So we brought him over.
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