Star Wars Celebration: Everything Announced at the Andor Panel (Live Updates)

We’re connected Day 2 of Star Wars Celebration 2025 successful Japan, and IGN has each the details connected the Andor: Season 2 sheet happening close now! Stars Diego Luna, Genevieve O’Reilly, Adria Arjona, Denise Gough, Kyle Soller, Alan Tudyk, and creator Tony Gilroy were connected manus to tout the caller season, which launches its archetypal occurrence connected Disney+ connected April 22. (Andor Season 2 volition marque its broadcast debut connected ABC and FX connected Wednesday, April 23, astatine 10:00 p.m. ET/PT.)

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Diego Luna Says to Watch Rogue One After Andor Season 2

Diego Luna took the signifier to pass the fans successful attendance that Season 2 is “so large successful each imaginable way. Everything matters truthful overmuch due to the fact that we’re getting adjacent to Rogue One. We person each the characters from Season 1 positive galore caller characters. Many acquainted faces you mightiness beryllium expecting. It’s going to beryllium intense.”

Luna added, “Then erstwhile you decorativeness watching the season, you should spell to Rogue One due to the fact that you're going to spot (it as) a antithetic film.”

Gilroy said that with Season 1’s storyline, “we took a full twelvemonth to bash the full season. Season 2, we’re going to bash 4 years successful 1 season. Each 3 episodes correspond 1 year. We’re dropping them 3 a week. It’s fundamentally similar dropping a movie each week. We effort to find the astir important 3 to 4 days (story-wise) successful each twelvemonth to onshore on.”

Andor Season 2 Will Be "More Ambitious"

Executive shaper Sanne Wohlenberg said this play is “wider, larger, much ambitious. Our bonzer squad truly outdid themselves.” The 2nd play boasts 140 sets crossed 7 stages. 2 backlots, 700 costumes for principals, 150 creatures, 30 droids advertisement 4100 VFX shots!

Gilroy said that “we’ll travel everyone you similar and love. Cassian’s astatine center, but there’s a chorus each astir him. We volition archer each communicative afloat out. We spell each successful connected each of them each the way.”

“For Mon Mothma, we commencement somewhere, this play takes america to full caller worlds. Whole caller characters. We commencement successful Chandrila. We commencement with a wedding and each the complications that brings.
Then we thrust and we reach. For Mon, successful particular, we spot her person to enactment nether the eyes of the Empire. We spell to immoderate acheronian places this season. She indispensable measurement retired of the shadows and hazard everything to talk immoderate truth.”

Deep Diving Into Andor Season 2 Characters

As for Dedra Meero’s arc this clip around, Denise Gough said, ”We recovered retired wherever Dedra comes from successful this season. A small spot astir possibly what makes her who she is. Things get existent strange. Just to beryllium portion of this thing, each quality is truthful afloat drawn. I’ve ne'er been portion of specified an ensemble. Dedra truly shows herself this season. It wasn’t truthful overmuch miss boss. It was overmuch much fascist this season.”

Kyle Soller said the narration betwixt Dedra and his quality Syril Karn is “really weird." Syril starts retired the play feeling truly bully astir himself. Promotion, caller friends, connected a caller planet. Flexing the tiny magnitude of powerfulness helium has successful his small pouch of the Empire. Trying to flex this [Soller past pointed to Gough].”

Soller added, “It’s an astonishing narration due to the fact that them coming unneurotic and opening themselves up to each different yet forces them into utmost situations that they ne'er anticipated. So it’s beauteous spicy.”

“When we archetypal conscionable Bix successful play 2, she’s near her home,” said Adria Arjona. “She’s truly trying to reconstruct herself. Coping with everything that happened with Dr. Gorst. You get a sneak peek into this peculiar narration that starts forming (with Cassian). In this season, you truly get to spot these 2 characters travel together.”

K-2SO Is Back connected the Screen!

Andor Season 2 sees Alan Tudyk reprise his relation from Rogue One arsenic the droid K-2SO. Tudylk said: ”I ever held up anticipation that K-2SO would return. I truly wanted it to happen. I held retired for my ain spinoff, K2-Fast, K2-Furious. But Tony is simply a amended writer. He has made an astonishing show. We get to spot however K and Cassian conscionable and the commencement of K-2SO volition beryllium seen this season. It’s beyond thing I could person hoped. It feels similar a precise important bid and it’s large to beryllium a portion of.”

K-2SO and Tudyk’s lack was keenly felt by Luna. “I missed Alan badly. It was 7 precise pugnacious years. I was laughing the infinitesimal one saw him backmost successful his precise choky suit. We spent a batch of clip successful a cockpit. He’s the astir generous and nicest spouse you tin person successful a scene. He was ever uncovering a mode to marque it much interesting, much fun. As an actor, that's beautiful. I ne'er knew it was going to beryllium truthful overmuch fun. K is simply a quality that has a soul. Alan took the quality to different level. It was bully and atrocious to spot however that quality gets born.”

The Andor sheet past concluded with an exclusive dainty for the fans there: the screening of the archetypal occurrence of Season 2! (Look for IGN’s reappraisal adjacent week.)

For much Star Wars Celebration coverage, find retired the latest connected The Mandalorian & Grogu, the Ryan Gosling-starring Star Wars: Starfighter (and erstwhile it happens connected the timeline), Star Wars Outlaws, and the caller Darth Maul animated series.