Diego Luna: “In ‘Andor’ there are no Jedi who will save you. City joint is their only option”

Six years after the “Star Wars” franchise took a turn towards war and adult cinema with “Rogue One”, Diego Luna brings back the character of Cassian Andor along with showrunner Tony Gilroy (who participated in the script of the film and in the shooting) to tell us the origin of a rebel in ‘Andor’: “From the beginning we talked a lot about what were the motivations of the character and what was that past that we had imagined in ‘ Rogue One ‘, what we needed for the series and what not. The truth is that Tony has been involved with him since’ Rogue One ‘and knows him as well as I do, “Luna told us in an interview that you can see below. at the premiere of ‘Andor’ this September 21 on Disney +.

In the film, Cassian confronts Jyn Erso and tells her: “Suddenly the rebellion is something real to you. Some of us live it. I’ve been in this fight since I was six. You’re not the only one who has lost everything.” and leaves us wondering what exactly could have happened to him, what the Empire did to his family, but, as “Andor” shows us through flashbacks, the story is much more complicated: “That terrible past, that sad and dark past, that story of this character who is forced, forced to migrate. He is a refugeeThe moon reflects, “What does it mean that someone at six has to leave childhood and go into a fight that doesn’t end until ‘Rogue One’? That was the interesting story to tell.”

The ending of ‘Rogue One’ was not a spoiler to its premiere, which connected directly with the trigger of ‘A New Hope’, nor that of ‘Andor’, which in 24 episodes will count the five years preceding the movie. What can you give us then? In addition to a tremendous adventure, a mirror in which to reflect some current events or the most recent history: “I think science fiction has always been a useful tool for commenting on a reality. When I start by saying that this is happening in a galaxy far, far away, I can give myself the opportunity to draw parallels with the reality we live in and that ‘Star Wars’ has always been dedicated. Movies always end with a comment on when they were made. Especially now that we see them from afar, it is easy to find them “.

Unity is strength

In the series we will delve into the lives of a small group of rebels, but also of various officers of the Empire, an approach to the villains of ‘Star Wars’ as we have never seen. the fight between the dark side and the light side of the Force with more realism: “Cassiano is a refugee because we are talking about the oppression of a system. The Empire has marginalized the population, freedoms are limited and history speaks of a social awakening. A community articulation. And I think it is a very current idea. today How much are we citizens doing to transform our reality?“, asks Diego Luna and asks us, “In ‘Andor’ we will see real characters, they are flesh and blood, people whose only strength is in numbers. There are no Jedi to save you. Citizen articulation is your only option”.

Andor will arrive on Disney + on September 21st.