Get the latest gossip
Don’t Forget About Luthen’s Little Wig
The hairpiece is one of Andor’s most stealthily revealing character details.
After first sporting short hair when he meets with Lonni in the bowels of the city planet, Luthen appears a few scenes later in his antiques shop with the same lavish locks he had in the first batch of episodes, when he was at a Chandrilan wedding. As one of the foremost and most deranged experts on the tops of Star Wars characters’ heads, of course I should have remembered that Luthen wears a wig when he’s in his public guise as the affable, well-connected proprietor of Galactic Antiquities and Objects of Interest. In the first season’s fourth episode, there’s a small but revealing scene where Luthen puts on the wig and his antiquities seller “costume” and practices smiling and posing to himself, just so that he’s embodying the face he’ll need to be.
Or read this on VULTURE