50 Fun Facts About Andor

Who created Andor and served as its showrunner?

Gilroy had co-written Rogue One and overseen its extensive reshoots.

How many years before Rogue One does the series begin?

Season one covers a single year; season two jumps a year per block of three episodes.

Which actor plays Cassian Andor?

He is also an executive producer and had played the part in Rogue One.

Which showrunner did Gilroy replace in April 2020?

Schiff had been showrunner since late 2018; Jared Bush wrote the original pilot and series bible.

Under what working title was the series filmed?

The real title was announced by Kathleen Kennedy at Disney's Investors Day in December 2020.

Who plays rebel spymaster Luthen Rael?

Skarsgård was the first to let slip that a second season was coming, in February 2022.

By what codename do Imperial agents know Luthen?

Dedra Meero's entire arc is her obsessive hunt for the man behind the name.

What is Luthen's public cover on Coruscant?

His assistant in the shop, Kleya, runs his covert communications.

Who plays Deputy Inspector Syril Karn?

Syril's hunt for Cassian begins after two of his corporate security colleagues are killed.

Syril starts the series working for which corporate authority?

Pre-Mor runs security for a whole trade sector before the Empire takes it over.

Which actress plays mechanic and black-market dealer Bix Caleen?

Arjona estimated the practical Ferrix street set at three to five city blocks long.

Who plays Cassian's adoptive mother Maarva?

Shaw called the scripts a scurrilous take on the Trumpian world.

Which actress was originally cast as Maarva before dropping out?

Fiona Shaw took over the role before filming began.

Who plays ISB supervisor Dedra Meero?

Gough has said the character's arc is about fighting her way up in a male environment.

Which agency employs Dedra Meero?

Its Coruscant entrance was filmed at a plaza in London's Canary Wharf.

Who is Dedra's commanding officer at the ISB?

He is played by Anton Lesser, known as Qyburn in Game of Thrones.

Mon Mothma represents which wealthy core world in the Senate?

She secretly channels her family fortune into the fledgling rebellion.

Who plays Mon Mothma?

She first played the senator in Revenge of the Sith, though her scenes were cut from that film.

How is rebel operative Vel Sartha related to Mon Mothma?

Vel leads the garrison raid and is in a relationship with the medic Cinta Kaz.

On which planet does season one's Imperial payroll heist take place?

The raid is timed to a rare celestial event the locals gather to watch.

Which idealistic young rebel writes the anti-Empire manifesto?

His manifesto is later broadcast across Ferrix and becomes a rallying text.

On which moon is the Imperial prison factory where Cassian is held?

The inmates build components that turn out to be for the Death Star.

Andy Serkis plays which prison floor manager?

Serkis had previously played Supreme Leader Snoke in the sequel trilogy.

What is the name of Cassian's home planet, ruined by the Empire?

Gilroy invented it as a Lord of the Flies-style world of children with no adults.

By what name was young Cassian known before Maarva took him in?

Antonio Viña plays the boy in the flashbacks.

Cassian's alias on the run is the name of which relative?

Clem Andor, played by Gary Beadle, was Maarva's partner.

What is the name of Maarva's stammering household droid?

Dave Chapman voices him, assisted by two puppeteers.

Who plays Bail Organa in season two?

Jimmy Smits could not return because of scheduling conflicts.

Ben Mendelsohn reprises which Rogue One role in season two?

Krennic directs advanced weapons research for the Imperial military.

Alan Tudyk voices which reprogrammed Imperial droid?

Tudyk was dropped from season one after story changes but returned for season two.

Which planet's massacre does Mon Mothma denounce in her Senate speech?

O'Reilly persuaded Gilroy to write a full speech rather than fragments for a montage.

Who plays Luthen's assistant Kleya Marki?

Gilroy wrote her flashback backstory after directors praised her season-one work.

The flashbacks showing Kleya and Luthen's past were inspired by which 1973 road movie?

They appear in the season-two episode Make It Stop.

Who composed the first season's score?

Britell and Gilroy are neighbours in Manhattan and first met about the project in August 2020.

Who scored most of season two after the original composer had scheduling conflicts?

The season-one composer still wrote episodes four and five.

How were season two's twelve episodes released?

Luminate found the format built momentum rather than the usual drop-off.

Andor was the first live-action Star Wars series not to use which technology?

The scripts suited real locations and large sets, much like Rogue One.

Which London district's plaza served as the entrance to the ISB headquarters?

The spot under the bridge to the Elizabeth line station had also appeared in Rogue One.

Which Lancashire seaside town's promenade was dressed as the resort planet Niamos?

Several days of filming took place there in early May 2021.

Around 500 crew travelled to Oban to film at which Scottish dam?

Sets were built around the dam and filming also took place inside its tunnels.

Who directed the first three episodes after Gilroy could not travel during the pandemic?

Gilroy stayed in New York and remained showrunner; Haynes also directed a later block.

Which director handled six of season two's twelve episodes?

Metz and Ruizpalacios directed the others; Gilroy did not direct at all.

Which House of Cards creator was part of the writing team?

Gilroy's brother Dan also wrote, and Tom Bissell joined for season two.

How many seasons was the series originally planned to run?

Gilroy called that plan physically impossible and ended it after two.

Which honour did the series win in both 2022 and 2025?

The citation praised a world stressing the need for grassroots organising against a fascistic state.

Forest Whitaker reprises which militant rebel leader?

His group, the Partisans, is too extreme for Luthen's wider network.

Who plays Syril's overbearing mother Eedy Karn?

Hunter is known for playing all three witches in Joel Coen's The Tragedy of Macbeth.

Which Zootopia writer originally developed the series and wrote its pilot script?

Bush also wrote the series bible before Schiff and then Gilroy took over.

Gilroy compared the early script's Andor and K-2SO pairing to which film duo?

He found it limited and claustrophobic, and wrote to Kathleen Kennedy with a different vision.

The first two episodes were broadcast on which US network on November 23, 2022?

They also ran on FX, Freeform and Hulu that week to attract new viewers.