Andor showrunner Tony Gilroy has spoken to EW.com explaining why he resisted the impulse to bring back Jyn Erso, played by Felicity Jones, into the Disney+ series.
So with all those familiar faces, and with Gilroy saying that Andor would finish right where Rogue One begins, naturally Star Wars fans couldn’t help but wonder if Cassian’s partner in Scarif crime, Jyn Erso (Felicity Jones), might be making an appearance in the finale. Alas, it was not meant to be. But did Gilroy ever consider it?
“No,” the showrunner tells Entertainment Weekly. “I was asked that several times. I tried to sketch some versions along the way of what we would do. Episode 12 is very unique. It’s its own energy and we are not trying to hype anything in 12. We always knew it was going to be not a low energy, but a different kind of episode.”
However, that doesn’t mean the possibilities of more Rogue returns did not enter Gilroy’s brain. “I couldn’t think of a way to get anything else from Rogue One, really,” he says. But once Cassian was informed on the show he needed to meet informant Tivic — connecting the character to his very first scene of the movie — it appeared we might get to at least see the rebel spy before his untimely demise.
“I always thought, ‘Oh my God, I’m going to have to deal with Tivic the spy!’” says Gilroy. “Should I deal with Galen Erso? And was there anybody else? I really thought I was going to have to use Danny Mays as Tivic. I thought, ‘Well, we probably should.’
Until the showrunner changed his mind and decided they probably shouldn’t, which extended all the way to Jyn. “In the end, I realized if people didn’t absolutely have to be there, they shouldn’t. And it would’ve been lame to bring Jyn back as a cameo. That would’ve been really disrespectful in a way. I’d rather honor Rogue and keep it straight.”
Read the interview in full here, and stream the finale of Andor on Disney+ now.
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