We sat down with Andor creator Tony Gilroy and writer Beau Willimon to talk about the discourse around the show, and how sacrifice is really its central theme
certainly hope that people are watching the show and getting a kick out of it. But they aren’t all that concerned about the capital-D discourse around it because while understanding’s big ideas is certainly part of appreciating the show, to them, that always comes second to understanding how everything about the story stems from small character decisions.
’s a tale about the very process of becoming something other than what you already are, Gilroy and Willimon told me, and as they were mapping out the shape of the show’s first season, they found themselves repeatedly coming back to the idea of sacrifice. Delving into just what all Cassian would sacrifice to survive as he went from being an orphan to a quick-witted con man has been one of’s ways of illustrating the evolution that he’s going through.
“Think about what we’re trying to do here,” Willimon said. “We’re trying to tell the story of how the Saw Guerreras and the Mon Mothmas and the Cassian Andors of the world are all trying to coalesce and foment rebellion. But where was Tony spending a lot of creative time in these early days? Blue milk cereal time with Syril and Eedy.”Rooting some of Syril’s willingness to work for the Empire in an emotionally abusive relationship with his mother is an effective way of humanizing him, obviously.
“It’s forcing you to relate to, to empathize with, to consider a third-tier bureaucratic hack in the Empire who is just as anonymous and unknown as the Luthen Raels of the world, and yet has a part to play in this huge tapestry,” Willimon said. “And weirdly, you find yourself rooting for this piece of shit.
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