Diego Luna additionally reveals what is going on on in Cassian’s thoughts throughout that scene.
[This article contains spoilers for Andor’s Season 1 finale]
Throughout the 12-episode first season of Tony Gilroy’s Andor, audiences have been handled to a front-row seat in watching the sparks of the riot lastly mild a flame inside Cassian Andor (Diego Luna). Within the finale, after enduring incarceration on Narkina 5, his mom’s (Fiona Shaw) demise, and seeing the consequences that torture has had on Bix (Adria Arjona) Cassian is lastly able to commit his life to the riot or die making an attempt to hitch. Within the remaining minutes of the episode, he sneaks onto Luthen Rael’s (Stellan Skarsgård) haulcraft and requested the person to both kill him or let him be a part of the riot, and naturally with Rogue One on the horizon followers understand how this dialog will go.
Forward of the finale, Collider’s personal Steve Weintraub had the possibility to talk with each Gilroy and Luna concerning the sequence, and he broached the subject of Cassian’s remaining scene with each of them. When requested about how early on he knew that this was the precise second he needed to finish the season on, Gilroy defined:
“Early, early. In all probability once I was nonetheless within the sketching section. I used to be making an attempt to fill out the entire jigsaw puzzle. What do you do first in jigsaw puzzle? I am not a jigsaw puzzle knowledgeable, however I feel what you often do is that they often begin with the sides, proper? The sting, get a body. So, most likely alongside the way in which, whereas I am sketching all various things, and here is a scene for who is aware of the place this goes, and here is one other scene for an additional episode and landmark scenes all over and various things. However at a sure level, I am on the lookout for that and at a sure level I am losing my time if I do not know what that’s. I’ve to know the place I am going. In any other case, you are losing time.”
From a screenwriting standpoint, it is sensible that Gilroy had the entire thing mapped out from the start as a result of the whole lot neatly suits into place as the ultimate moments of Season 1 attracts to an in depth. Each side of Cassian’s story earlier than this particular second has been main as much as his choice to decide to the riot, and Luna shed just a little extra mild on the place Cassian’s thoughts is as he makes that selection. Luna mentioned, “I feel for those who might learn his thoughts, on the finish what he is saying is, “That is no life. Take this factor I’ve away from me as a result of it means nothing except you let me struggle for freedom.” He is saying, “There is no level of dwelling like this.” He lastly will get it.” He went on to elaborate why that is such a pivotal second for the character:
There’s a whole lot of studying to return to search out the Cassian we see in Rogue One, and the dedication, the readability, the idea that he has there. However right here, what he is saying is like, “Yeah, take this away from me as a result of it means nothing except I am a part of what you guys are combating for.” And I feel it is that, it’s extremely deep, and it is the second he finds out he might be completely different [from] what everybody sees in him and what he sees, and what he thought he was. That there’s a likelihood to remodel, to evolve, and to change into a part of an answer.
Cassian Andor has been a compelling character since he was first launched in Rogue One, and he killed a person throughout the first jiffy of being on-screen. Andor has performed wonders with exploring what makes him a flawed, however fascinating character, and Luna appears to assume that is what makes him so attention-grabbing. As he put it:
“I feel that is what makes Cassian an exquisite character, as a result of he is imperfect. However there may be one factor about him, I feel makes him completely different. He is keen to forgive himself, subsequently give himself one other likelihood. And he would possibly fuck up many occasions, and mess up, however he offers himself one other likelihood. There he’s in the identical place the place he was the primary time Luthen discovered him, and he is there saying, “Sorry, I get it now. I get it. Now that I bought it, both you eliminate me otherwise you make me a part of the struggle.” I feel it is a very sturdy finale, man. And likewise the one you want for an additional season to occur. You want that.”
Whereas there isn’t a scarcity of inspirational characters within the Star Wars universe, Cassian stands aside as a result of he wasn’t born a hero or introduced up within the midst of the riot in the way in which that characters like Princess Leia (Carrie Fisher) have been. Cassian was simply a median one who noticed first-hand what the Empire was doing, tried to disregard it, after which noticed the ramifications of complacency. The way in which that the finale combines the entire concepts laid out throughout twelve episodes and makes use of them to push Cassian onto his collision course with the occasions of Rogue One is a masterclass in storytelling for everybody concerned.
