Good morning from inside Celebration Stage at Star Wars Celebration Japan. We’ll be providing live updates of the Andor Season 2 panel, which is the headline of Saturday’s schedule. Refresh and scroll down for full coverage.
LIVE UPDATES
10.01 – Panel starts with a sizzle reel from Season 1.
10.04 – Tony Gilroy, Diego Luna, Genevieve O’Reilly, Denise Gough, Kyle Soller, Alan Tudyk, Adria Arjona, and Sanne Wohlenberg come out.
10.07 – Diego Luna pumps up the crowd, asking how many guards there are on each level, and greets everyone watching from around the world.
10.09 – Tony Gilroy goes over the schedule for Season 2: Three episodes a week, each covering a year in the lead-up to Rogue One.
10.10 – Executive producer Sanne Wohlenberg hypes up the production design and expansiveness of the second season. 140 sets, 700 costumes, 152 pictures of creatures, 4,100 VFX shots, etc.
10.11 – “Cassian is at the center of this, but it’s a chorus. We care about these characters as much as you do. We will tell every story full out. It may not be good, it may be good, but we go all in, all the way.”
10.12 – Genevieve O’Reilly thanks the crowd “for having us.” Adds, “We’re so excited to be here to talk about this. I can’t wait to share it with you. Hopefully you like it.”
10.13 – Adds that for Mon Mothma, the new season will take us to whole new worlds. We start with Chandrilla, and a wedding, plus all the complications that brings.
10.13 – “We go to dark places this season,” says O’Reilly.
10.14 – Denise Gough: “We find out where Dedra comes from. Things will get a little strange.”
10.15 – Gough: “It was much darker this season. It wasn’t as much girl boss. It’s much more fascist.”
10.16 – Kyle Soller: “It’s really weird. Syril is starting this season [feeling] pretty good about himself. He has a new promotion, he’s flexing a small amount of power that he has. He’s trying to flex this [points to Denise Gough]”. Gough: “It goes super well.” Soller: “A lot of staring.” (They stare at each other, “No touching.”)
10.17 – “Them coming together and opening themselves up to each other ultimately forces them into extreme situations. It’s pretty spicy.”
10.18 – Adria Arjona: “I’m really trying to be cool, but I’m so overexcited right now. This is insane! It’s so rare that you get to put faces to the reasons you make these choices. It’s really surreal and really exciting.”
10.19 – “When we first meet her in Season 2, she’s left her home. Then you get a sneak peek at this beautiful relationship that starts forming [with Cassian]. I think this season you’ll really get to see these two characters coming together. Probably one of my favorite parts.”
10.20 – Turns to Alan Tudyk, the audience erupts. “I’m not gonna top that, let’s just move on.”
10.20 – “I really wanted it to happen. I did for a time hold out hope for my own spin-off, K-2Fast, K-2Furious. We get to see the birth of K-2SO this season. It was very exciting to do, to be born. It’s beyond. It’s beyond anything I could have hoped. It feels like a very important series. It’s great to be a part of it.”
10.22 – Diego Luna: “We spent a lot of time in a cockpit moving. He’s the most generous partner to have in a scene. I never knew it was gonna be so much fun. Because when you read the pages, you’re interacting with a droid. But then Alan comes, and it’s just a character that has shape, that has soul. He brought a soul to his character and took the character to another level. It was nice to witness how he was born. It was nice and awful… (Laughs.)”
10.24 – Host: “Diego, did you bring anything to share with the fans here?”
10.24 – Luna: “This convention means a lot to all of us. We wanted to bring something really special. This is going to be for your eyes only. We’re going to show you the first episode of Season 2.”
Miguel Fernández is a Spanish student that has movies as his second passion in life. His favorite movie of all time is The Lord of the Rings, but he is also a huge Star Wars fan. However, fantasy movies are not his only cup of tea, as movies from Scorsese, Fincher, Kubrick or Hitchcock have been an obsession for him since he started to understand the language of filmmaking. He is that guy who will watch a black and white movie, just because it is in black and white.
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