On Monday, June 1st, Andor showrunner Tony Gilroy joined K-2SO actor Alan Tudyk and supervising sound editor Margit Pfeiffer for a day at Lucasfilm’s headquarters in San Francisco.
Alan Tudyk, the acclaimed actor and man behind the machine, hadn’t been to Lucasfilm’s San Francisco campus since Rogue One: A Star Wars Story. “This is the coolest day ever,” beamed the father of the group, who had brought his two sons along for the Star Wars fun.
Joining Tudyk on his tour was Tony Gilroy, Andor’s creator and executive producer, and Pablo Hidalgo of the Lucasfilm Story Group, who led the duo on an in-depth look around the historic Presidio campus. “Do you get sick of me talking about you?” Gilroy jokingly asked Hidalgo, “I talk about you all the time.” Indeed, their close collaboration throughout the production of the show led to the appearance of Yavin 4 in early episodes of Season 2 and a new understanding of the “Tarkin Massacre” on Ghorman.
Of course, no tour of Lucasfilm is complete without a stop at the famous Yoda Fountain, topped by a statue of the wise Jedi sculpted by legendary artist Lawrence Noble. And after a few questions — “We couldn’t get a B2EMO statue?” Gilroy asked while Tudyk joked, “Is this actual imported swamp water?” — the real tour began inside.
As the group made their way up to another area to (finally) find B2EMO, Gilroy reacted as if meeting an old friend. “Hello darling!” exclaimed Gilroy. Made by the droid department, the same team who built the original, this Bee has become a good luck companion for the San Francisco staff. Looking closely at the worn universe aesthetic present on all of the displayed props, GIlroy wondered aloud: “Is there a funk shop where you guys just decide on how to get ‘funk’ on everything?”
”Let’s finish up the tour with a Death Trooper,” said Hidalgo pointing them towards a towering statue of the black-garbed (and voice-garbled) baddies from Andor’s “sequel” film, Rogue One: A Star Wars Story. “They were initially designed to match the work of Ralph McQuarrie’s original stormtroopers. He would draw them tall and skinny, just because that was his art style. So they tried to mimic that in Rogue One.”
As a final parting gift, Hidalgo gave Gilroy a copy of Star Wars: The Rise and Fall of the Galactic Empire by Chris Kempshall, a book published last year that many Andor fans have been visiting (or revisiting) after the show’s finale. “We made a book written by a real-world historian, charged by the real-world history of Star Wars.” With a book for the director, but not one for the actor, Tudyk quipped: “I saw an Emmy in a case back there, I’ll just go grab that.”
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