Andor’s Tony Gilroy Is aware of You are Bored with Ready for Okay-2SO to Present Up

As Andor season two will get nearer to the occasions of Rogue One: A Star Wars Story, one intelligent fan-fave droid has but to make an look and there’s a reasonably clear motive why. Okay-2SO, the Imperial safety droid that towers over Diego Luna as Cassian Andor and is performed by popular culture fortunate appeal Alan Tudyk, was one of many unique movie’s most demanding results. And never due to the actor; the mechanics of the character’s presence merely required rather a lot.

Showrunner Tony Gilroy defined to the the Hollywood Reporter that whereas he is aware of followers have been ready for Okay-2SO’s origin story, it is going to repay when the second lastly arrives on season two of Andor.

“[Limiting] Okay-2SO got here from the expertise of constructing Rogue, to be trustworthy with you,” Gilroy shared. “From the very starting, that was some of the tough elements of the unique dialog—how lengthy I used to be going to should delay [K-2SO]? As a result of what are you able to do with him?”

“I don’t need folks to return and diagram Rogue, however simply inside that film, there are two or three or 4 locations the place we’re hiding him—the place he has to remain on the ship or can’t go someplace. He’s a extremely, actually tough piece of apparatus to hold by means of a narrative. The constraints on him are large. He’s a really seen, troublesome piece of story gear. So I knew intuitively how lengthy I must wait to do it.”

He continued,  “[K-2SO] is unbelievable and he’s humorous. Tudyk is hysterical and it’s actually nice. We had been like, ‘OK, we’re going to [have him in the show] and let’s make it spectacular and let’s actually make a factor out of it.’ And that’s what we’ve tried to do.” Gilroy teased.

Andor season two streams new episodes weekly on Disney+.

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