Interview with Diego Luna: how 'Andor' is changing everything within the Star Wars universe
I finish buying a latte in a specialty cafeteria near my house and I prepare to walk, calmly, towards the hotel where I will sit a few minutes with Diego Luna to talk about Andor, the series that narrates the events leading up to Rogue One and has taken us all by surprise Politics, rebellions, normal personalities, scenes that seem to be taken from a movie noir along with sequences inspired by dystopian productions. It has been so different from anything we had seen before the Star Wars universe to the point that not a single lightsaber appears in its twelve episodes.
But at last, with Diego indisposed, we have to delay the interview a couple of days and make it virtual. With this, time a little more measured and a little more impersonal. Things that happen and that are beyond everyone’s control. No problem. The important thing is that this time his point of view and opinions about Andor not only as a star boy, but also as an executive producer, which makes him much more involved, from the conception of the series.
So, at least for me, it’s a great opportunity to delve into some of the less obvious aspects behind Andor The reasons why this is the production chosen to do something so different from anything we’ve seen before in Star Wars. Politics, social criticism, battles subtle, but no less relevant for that. A way of showing us that in that galaxy so far away, even on some planet that seems to be unimportant, there are personalities who are willing to fight for their rights, even if it means death.
” He is a character, perhaps the most human and earthly thing we have seen in Star Wars. A guy who can go unnoticed, who does not seem It doesn’t seem to matter. And when you talk about a revolution, the revolution is full of characters like that. It’s full of characters who suddenly understand the value of community articulation. It’s a character you wouldn’t necessarily care about, but suddenly it becomes your biggest concern. He is a guy who lives and owes a lot to anonymity”, he replies.
” Besides, the character is a pretext to meet a situation. And through it we can understand a social moment. What needs to be happening for a rebellion or a revolution to be articulated. What level of oppression is being experienced. How is that lack of freedoms How it lives. And how it is lived in the most intimate and individual”.
” In this series, which is what I can tell you about, it is without a doubt the starting point, Totally, and that is the main objective”, explains Diego Luna. “The objective is to create real characters that resemble you and me, who are full of these contrasts. We can say that we are always trying to be the best version of ourselves, but not that we don’t make mistakes. Not that we don’t live in those gray tones. And precisely these characters live there because, in addition, it is more interesting. For me it is more interesting when they tell a story of someone who lives in that eternal contradiction than someone from whom I can always expect their best version”.
” the drama ends,” Luna tells us. “And in that Tony [Gilroy] has been very meticulous. In giving all these characters that vision and that realistic angle. On one side and on the other
Because the series aspires to show the life of the Empire more bureaucratic and low command. How the lack of freedoms is experienced from there”.
Diego Luna plays Cassian Andor in ‘Andor’ Andor puts Diego Luna, a Latin American star, at the center of the Star Wars universe
“I’m not only aware, I share the feeling with you”, he answers smiling. “I also grew up watching these movies, I also grew up fantasizing about this universe and as a star it never crossed my mind to be part of this. It didn’t even seem possible to me.”
has taken over. In that sense, I feel like they’ve been pioneers.”
If you see the diversity in the cast of Rogue One, the diversity of accents, what that movie is saying is how such a heterogeneous team is capable of anything. And in the series it’s not just me in front of the camera, but also Adria Arjona (who plays Bix Caleen), but also behind the scenes”, explains Diego Luna.
” And I promise you that my son sees this typical, although it doesn’t seem regular to you and me. I am very pleased that for my son it is typical that his father is doing a series like this. I love the concept, because it was so necessary and vital”.
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