This show really is a level above the writing for any other Star Wars show. Frankly, this story/writing would be amazing even if it didn't exist in the Star Wars universe

Also, we're halfway through the season now, what are everyone's thoughts on the Three-Episodes-at-Once format?

Personally, I've loved it.

Hate it. Basically eliminates water cooler talk because its tough to get the whole arc watched when life is busy. We've had to wait till the weekend each of the last 2 weeks to finish it.

You guys who won't cut out 2-1/2 hours of sleep on your Tuesday night are just as complicit as the absentee Senators and glad-handers who let Palpatine rise to power in the first place.

I think Bix goes out in this arc. Otherwise it would be weird for Andor to get so close to Jyn Erso in Rogue One if Bix bites it right before that.

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I think Bix goes out in this arc. Otherwise it would be weird for Andor to get so close to Jyn Erso in Rogue One if Bix bites it right before that.

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Does he get close to her? They never hug or kiss. They hold hands while their lives are annihilated.

Happy Andor day

The girl playing Kleya was Gilroy's third choice for the role and had never acted in anything real before as a professional. She's only 26!!!

https://www.starwarsnewsnet.com/2025/05/tony-gilroy-and-elizabeth-dulau-on-kleyas-breakout-performance-and-the-challenge-of-creating-suspense.html

It's hard to imagine anyone else but Elizabeth Dulau in the role of Kleya though as it turns out, she was a last minute replacement. Dulau was Tony Gilroy's third choice after two other actors turned down the part to pursue different projects. Gilroy revealed:

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"We had two other actors who had come on and they both got bigger jobs so begged [to] be released…So we needed a Kleya, and Nina Gold [in casting] put up Elizabeth Dulau in front of us and said, 'She has no credit. She just graduated from RADA like 15 minutes ago. She's never done anything.'

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Part of what makes Kleya such a fun and pivotal character are her interactions and often disagreements with Luthen Rael played by Stellan Skarsgrd. Gilroy went on about how impressed Skarsgrd was with Dulau and how he himself was blown away by her talent:

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"He's [Skarsgrd] just in awe of her… She never gave him an inch, not from the very first audition. I don't know how she has that kind of courage or that kind of spine. She came into the audition, and she was just a wall to him all the way through. Holy cow! She's bulletproof. We do not have one bad minute of film on her anywhere. She's like a Meryl Streep, natural, mind-blowing actor…She can do anything."

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Kleya's skills were on full display in episode 6 of Andor season 2 when she had to retrieve a microphone hidden in an artifact that was part of gangster Davo Sculdun's private art collection. With the tension mounting as Sculdun and high ranking Imperial officers including Director Orson Krennic are making their rounds in the gallery, Kleya realizes that the listening device is stuck. She attempts to pull it out, all the while using Lonni Jung, a fellow spy and member of the ISB to help shield her efforts. If she fails, not only would she blow her and Luthen's cover but she could expose the whole Rebellion spy effort. Dulau was enthusiastic about discussing the scene and working with Robert Emms who plays Lonni:

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"I love Robert so much. We had a lot of fun working on this scene, and he was just so encouraging the whole time as well. Luckily, the lines for that scene did not change very much at all. And when I first read the script, for that two months before we shot it, I remember thinking, 'This is such a technical scene, all the different components of it. I need to be off-book so early so that on the day I am not thinking about the lines."

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Dulau goes on to describe just how many factors she had to consider when shooting the scene:

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"She's thinking about the bug that's hidden underneath the piece, and she's focusing on that, trying to get it out. She's thinking about seeming as though she's not trying to do that at all, as though she's just flirting with Lonni. She's also thinking about Lonni and making sure he doesn't run away and blow her cover. And then she's also thinking about the other group in the room and keeping track of where they are. So my brain explodes just thinking about that…It was a whole lot, but I'm really glad with how it's come out. I think you see her switch between just, like, an innocent shop girl to deadly ruthless Kleya, and that was really fun."

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What is driving the suspense in the scene is the encounter between Mon Mothma (Genevieve O'Reilly) and Director Krennic (Ben Mendelsohn) and how they are moving closer and closer to Kleya during their conversation. Dulau was asked if she was following that interaction to inform her performance as she frantically tried to shimmy the bug from the artifact. Turns out, the scene was filmed in parts and Genevieve O' Reilly and Ben Mendelsohn weren't even on set when she struggled to accomplish her mission.

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"When we finally got round to shooting and turning around on me, I was the last person they shot in that whole scene, and I don't think they were available on that day, so I wasn't looking at any of them. There was a member of the crew who stood just to give me an eye line…So I just had to imagine they were there. So that makes it that much harder. But I'm still really pleased with how that scene came together."

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Would have never guessed she was a brand new actor. She's killing it.

If you're looking to kill time before the release at 8:00pm tonight the Rewatchables with Bill Simmons FINALLY did Star Wars and it's 3.5 hours long lol.

It annoys me that B2EMO seems to have been cut out of the show.

Also damn that was a short 1st episode

Downside of time jumping so much. Really wish we could have more seasons to flesh some stuff out. This all feels so rushed

Damn what a second episode

Episode 8...

Episode 8 was unreal. What a freaking work of art.
K2S0. Rebellions are built on hope

If I've offended you, I apologize....

Man that was epic and gut wrenching

Anyone complaining after episodes 8 and 9 need to have their head examined. That was epic.

Best of the Disney era is an understatement