A YouTube livestream occasion on Tuesday, that includes Andor creator/author/showrunner Tony Gilroy and star Diego Luna, together with numerous stars of the sequence, inevitably touched on one of many total sequence’ most devastating moments. One of many sequence’ operating villains, civil servant and basic catspaw Syril Karn, has a key confrontation in episode 8. Addressing the character’s storyline alongside Luna and Syril actor Kyle Soller, Gilroy revealed that the sequence’s climax was certainly one of his greatest battles on the present.
[Ed. note: Spoilers ahead for the Andor season 2 episode “Who Are You?”]
In “Who Are You?”, Syril lastly comes face-to-face with Cassian Andor (Luna), the insurgent he’s been obsessive about because the starting of the present. That obsession destroyed his profession, took him throughout the galaxy, and led him to a satisfying, sophisticated new life. However he realizes it was all a lie, and that he was used to assist the Empire mass-murder the individuals of the planet Ghorman. Within the midst of the Imperial bloodbath on Ghorman, cleverly deliberate and constructed by Syril’s lover Dedra (Denise Gough) together with his unwitting assist, Syril occurs throughout Cassian — and assaults him.
And Cassian, who’s by no means seen or heard of Syril earlier than, asks “Who’re you?” Syril is clearly devastated. And a minute later, with out ever attending to reply Cassian, he’s useless. The 2 males stay mysteries to one another, and Cassian strikes on.
“That line was very troublesome to say!” Luna says within the livestream, speaking about how a lot he needed to put apart all his emotions about Syril’s historical past and his personal data of the bigger story in an effort to make the second work. “I believe it was very sensible additionally.”
“I needed to actually battle for that line,” Gilroy says. “There was a whole lot of controversy about that.”
Luna says Gilroy known as him the night time earlier than capturing that scene to emphasise the significance of getting the road proper, as a consequence of that battle to maintain it within the script. They debated capturing alternate variations of the assembly, however Luna recounts Gilroy saying “It’s that one. You need to perceive, it’s that one.”
Luna says when he truly acquired to the road throughout capturing, “The second after we stated it, and that form of ‘Oh shit!’ — the entire scene turns 360 in that second.”
“I instructed them, I’m naming the episode ‘Who Are You?’” Gilroy stated. “I pushed all my chips on that. There have been a whole lot of telephone calls about that… I used to be very clear, [though] there was a whole lot of noise.” Due to the pushback, Gilroy says he did shoot alternate variations of the confrontation, regardless of his objections: “Whaddya do? You get alts. However, like, generally the constructing of alts diminishes the one [version] that you really want. So that you get half a slice of the factor that you really want. My name to him was like, ‘You will get all of the alts you need, however I do know what I’m going [with] after I get within the chopping room. […] So be sure to get a great one, as a result of I’m not going to take a look at the opposite ones.”
For his half, Soller cites the road “Who’re you?” as “the demise blow” for Syril. “That line is so chopping. All the pieces Syril experiences within the 10 minutes main as much as that’s form of crushing, however that’s the final demise blow for him. The man whom he’s been funneling all of this vitality towards for the previous couple of years simply doesn’t even know he exists. Brutal. Brutal.”
One enjoyable reveal from later within the livestream, although, is that Gilroy additionally needed to battle for a a lot smaller and fewer telling element within the present. Within the season 2 episode “What a Festive Night,” Cassian’s fellow insurgent Bix (Adria Arjona) confronts her torturer, Imperial scientist Physician Gorst (Joshua James). He’s first seen getting into his torture lab carrying a flowery cupcake in an ornamental package deal, which he units down on a pc panel proper earlier than Bix reveals herself.
“I needed to battle for that cupcake, too,” Gilroy laughs. “I don’t know, I simply wished it! However no person [else] wished it.”
Picture: Disney Plus through Polygon
