

"I remember coming to the town that had been built by the production design and the set units every little thing had been thought of, every single drawer had something in it, every cabinet had a whole life inside," he said. Soller noted that the attention to detail on the show's set helped him get lost in the world.

And he finds a place to be seen if he can supersede his station and then climb those ranks." "He came from a place of such lack and such pain in his home life, that he's trying to fill this void within himself through the fascist corporate bureaucratic structure, where he finds order. He could go into the Empire, he could go into the Rebel Alliance, and he's got a lot of gray area," Soller said of Syril.

"He created a character that had a big question mark over him. "I've got you now, Cassian Andor!" is presumably what's going through Syril Karn's head. The actor noted that he was attracted to the role by Gilroy's writing. He's played by Kyle Soller, whom you might know from Fury and the 2012 adaptation of Anna Karenina. And she wants to really make her mark."īetween the two sides at the beginning of the show lies Syril Karn, a security officer who has a run-in with Cassian. I remember thinking how great she feels in that uniform - working for the Empire is everything that she wants," Gough said. "Dedra is so proud of herself, working in this incredible organization. Decked out in a magnificent white outfit with icy demeanor to match, she's determined to climb the ranks.ĭedra Meero undoubtedly feels pretty awesome as she leads a pair of Imperial death troopers into action. On the other side, we've got baddies like Imperial Security Bureau supervisor Dedra Meero, played by Star Wars newcomer Denise Gough (who recently appeared in Under the Banner of Heaven and voiced Yennefer in The Witcher 3). I'm excited for us to travel with her as a woman finding her voice."Īndor isn't all about the idealistic rebels though. In Andor, we find her very alone, living in a world of orthodoxy and construct - a woman who has had to navigate her ideals and her beliefs in systems of oppression… in a gilded cage. "Previously, we've seen her surrounded by like-minded rebels. "We meet Mon Mothma in a place we've never seen her before… navigating a very male-dominated Empire with a very powerful Emperor Palpatine at the top of it," O'Reilly said during the press event. The show will explore the years leading up Mon Mothma's formation of the Rebel Alliance.
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Mon Mothma is portrayed by Genevieve O'Reilly, who previously played the role in Revenge of the Sith, Rogue One and CGI animated series Rebels. Andor takes place before she unites the galaxy's scattered revolutionary cells under one banner, and will seemingly reveal more about the buildup to that moment. We've had glimpses of Mon Mothma, the Imperial senator who leads the Rebel Alliance, in Rogue One and Return of the Jedi ( "Many Bothans died…"), but know little about her beyond that. They aren't the only rebellious people the show will explore. That takes a turn when he runs into smuggler Luthen Rael, played by Stellan Skarsgard (also seen in Marvel's Thor movies). When we meet Cassian in the new show, he's embroiled in a life of petty crime.
