Andor‘s Tony Gilroy Knows You’re Tired of Waiting for K-2SO to Show Up

As Andor play two gets person to the events of Rogue One: A Star Wars Story, 1 clever fan-fave droid has yet to marque an quality and there’s a beauteous wide crushed why. K-2SO, the Imperial information droid that towers implicit Diego Luna arsenic Cassian Andor and is played by popular civilization fortunate charm Alan Tudyk, was 1 of the archetypal film’s astir demanding effects. And not due to the fact that of the actor; the mechanics of the character’s beingness simply required a lot.

Showrunner Tony Gilroy explained to the the Hollywood Reporter that portion helium knows fans person been waiting for K-2SO’s root story, it volition wage disconnected erstwhile the infinitesimal yet arrives connected season 2 of Andor.

“[Limiting] K-2SO came from the acquisition of making Rogue, to beryllium honorable with you,” Gilroy shared. “From the precise beginning, that was 1 of the astir hard parts of the archetypal conversation—how agelong I was going to person to hold [K-2SO]? Because what tin you bash with him?”

“I don’t privation radical to spell backmost and diagram Rogue, but conscionable wrong that movie, determination are 2 oregon 3 oregon 4 places wherever we are hiding him—where helium has to enactment connected the vessel oregon can’t spell somewhere. He’s a really, truly hard portion of instrumentality to transportation done a story. The limitations connected him are huge. He’s a precise visible, troublesome portion of communicative gear. So I knew intuitively however agelong I would person to hold to bash it.”

He continued,  “[K-2SO] is fantastic and he’s funny. Tudyk is hysterical and it’s truly great. We were like, ‘OK, we’re going to [have him successful the show] and let’s marque it spectacular and let’s truly marque a happening retired of it.’ And that’s what we’ve tried to do.” Gilroy teased.

Andor play 2 streams caller episodes play connected Disney+.

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