'Andor' Creator Tony Gilroy on When to Expect Season 2, Time Jumps, and Meeting K-2SO [Exclusive]

Here's our extended interview with ANDOR creator Tony Gilroy. He breaks down the Season 1 finale, when to expect Season 2, the epic fight sequence with Luthen's haulcraft, how the show will address time jumps, K-2SO, and so much more.

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GILROY: There's a couple [of] things that will stun you that I don't know. I don't really know. If past is predicate, and we do the same thing we did before, it'll be on the same schedule. It will come out two years later. The only place you can accelerate the processes is in post, and the only way you can accelerate in post is with money, and money is tight. And so, I don't really know, there would have to be some serious motivation next May or June or something.

GILROY: Early, early. Probably when I was still in the sketching phase. I was trying to fill out the whole jigsaw puzzle. What do you do first in [a] jigsaw puzzle? I'm not a jigsaw puzzle expert, but I think what you usually do is they usually start with the edges, right?GILROY: The edge, get a frame.

It's just some shows like to end on a big cliffhanger with a big action set piece. You know what I mean?GILROY: We have a marching band of amateur musicians and the daughters of Ferrix. GILROY: No, no. It'll be a year later. No, it'll be a year later after what you just saw. No, it'll be one year later. So, a great deal has happened in the interim.

GILROY: Yeah, I mean, yes. To the general question, yes. Anytime anything really great comes up in front of you, you want to think about how to use it. Look we audition—you know how many actors we auditioned this year, right? 190-something actors for speaking parts. And so Nina Gold and Martin Ware, they are this powerhouse, it's a real superpower for our show. So, we see a lot of people. So, if we see eight people for a part, and we all pick a winner, we all like who we like.

I figured there was going to be something, but I didn't expect it the way that it was going to be. I didn't expect her with the hologram.GILROY: Yeah. So, I mean, I knew we had that. If I didn't have that, I don't know what I would've done. And then once you're going to do her death in that sort of way, well who cares about it the most? And B2 is just so endearing and so special and just beloved.

GILROY: There's some, and we'll probably have more. It's a very strong flavor when it comes in. It's not just a visual flavor, it's a very strong character flavor. You have to deal with it politically. And in some places people were saying, “Oh, why is Narkina 5 all humans?" Well, I don't know how you would work out the bathroom on the floor with eight different varieties of genitals, or whatever.

What's interesting about Season 2, is that every three episodes is one year, which means that you can have a batch of three episodes that is really small character stuff, or you can just be jumping into when there's a big action sequence about to happen. The format of it being every year makes it just a really interesting season.

GILROY: I don't worry about that. I remember two months after Rogue One in an airport, I saw a novelization of Rogue One. And I’m reading it going, what is this? Who did this? So, what they do, I don't know, after the fact, if that's the question. I have a calendar, I have a canonical calendar of events. I know how everything goes in these five years, of our character's point of view. But, I know what's happening on the calendar.

So, we went up to the props house on the lot, and they showed us all this stuff. And they finished by showing us this thing that will play a big part, it's a big prop, it will be in Season 2. It has a big utility, and it's really complicated, and this guy had built it. And Johnny and I were just standing there and Ariel Kleiman's standing there, we're standing there watching this guy explain this fricking thing that they built.

I'm going to go fishing and see if you'll answer this, but you obviously start filming tomorrow morning. What can you tease about your first shot on day one of Season 2?I appreciate that. When you make Season 1, you obviously learned a whole bunch in terms of how to make Andor. Was there any big lesson that you took from the making of the first season that you are implementing in Season 2?

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