As we bid farewell to the excellent Andor, showrunner Tony Gilroy has spoken to the Deadline about the finale and asks what happened to Cassian’s sister.
DEADLINE: In your granular storytelling, you have disrupted the Star Wars canon. What did you feel the series was lacking?
TONY GILROY: I think it was a marriage of two appetites. The attraction was the opportunity to work on this scale. The first decades of my career have been as a short story writer, and I feel like this is an epic novel. It was also the opportunity to use all the self-education I’d done over 40 years on history.
All of the stuff that had been banging around in my head all these years — Russian Revolution, the French Revolution, the Haitian Revolution, Oliver Cromwell, Zapata, I got to go deep on. I had no place to put that, and this was like, wow, they want me to do a show that takes place over a five-year period about a revolution and the people inside it.
DEADLINE: What happened to Cassian’s sister, the one he was looking for in Season 1, Episode 1? There wasn’t any closure on that by the end of the series?
GILROY: No, there wasn’t. I did it in the beginning because I’m always leaving things for myself to try to pick up on. There are all kinds of things that I do to pick up on later, or things that I lay down so writers will pick up on them in the room. But what I found was, with the sister, when I put it in there, I didn’t know how I was going to resolve it, and at one point, I had some melodramatic version of how that would play out in a Season 2. But as I went along, I realized, as I got to know Cassian, a very important absence in his life; the fact that he left her behind is a hole that will never be filled. When you watch the show, how many times does he go back for people? In fact, Bix even says, when they take off and escape from Ferrix, “Cassian will find us.” He goes back for Maarva. He goes back for Kleya. The savior component of him is much more interesting to me than some resolution. How many things in your life are unresolved?DEADLINE: Unlike the Season 1 finale of Andor, it seemed quieter this time.
GILROY: We were always going to take our foot off the gas. It was about making sure that the linkage was proper to Rogue One, that it was a summing up of all of the characters that we carried along. So much of Season 2 at the end is about the endurance and fortitude and the price that everybody has paid over time.
Read the interview in full here, and stream the finale of Andor on Disney+ now.
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