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Andor’ Showrunner Reveals Season 2 Secrets and Why Writing Darth Vader Is ‘Limiting’

Tony Gilroy, showrunner of Star Wars show Andor, talks about first three episodes of Season 2, writing Cassian and Mon Mothma, and more.

We’re gonna do another year where each block of three will represent a year.” And literally, I think I probably went back upstairs to my hotel room and started sketching that night or the next day. Then the final piece of that puzzle was, with the help of knowing where I have to go, I wrote the in and the out — the scenes at the top and the end of each block, as proof of concept that it could really work and we wouldn’t have to do a lot of naked exposition. My guess is that in this moment in history, people will suddenly find themselves a lot more sympathetic to someone who just wants to live their life while all this crazy stuff is happening in the world.

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