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At the 'Andor' premiere, Diego Luna chats with THR and describes what he hopes the legacy of his character Cassian Andor will be. Plus, he talks about the special experience he had working on 'Andor' and 'Rogue One.'

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00:00I was watching the trailer and I saw a comment that said Cassian Andor must be in pain from
00:05carrying the Star Wars universe on his back.
00:08Does your back hurt?
00:09Not at all.
00:10I mean, if something I can tell you is that it really is so much pain, you know, being
00:17in this universe and belonging to this family and being part of a project that people care
00:25so much about, it's something very special, you know, and I can't compare this to any
00:32other experience in my life, you know.
00:34It's been 10 years of being blessed by working in something that matters to people.
00:40It's very special.
00:41What do you hope is the legacy of this character?
00:44I don't know.
00:46I hope there is… it's a good question, but I don't know.
00:53I'm no one to answer that one.
00:55I think that's for the audience.
00:58What I can tell you is that as a filmmaker, as a producer, an actor, I just hope other
01:07companies, you know, decide to give creators this freedom we got, you know.
01:14I've never felt this amount of freedom working in any project, you know.
01:19The producers like Lucasfilm and Disney, they were just completely open for us to deliver
01:26this, you know.
01:28And I can tell you one thing, the show Tony Gilroy pitched me when… this was six years
01:33ago when we were about to start, it's the one we're delivering today.
01:38And that integrity would never happen without the freedom we got, you know.
01:47I feel really proud and really lucky to be part of this show.
01:52You've said that the show being just two seasons is good for your mental health.
01:56What sort of toll has playing this character and this role taken on you?
01:59I mean, if you just say that way, but I mean, what I was trying to say and I want to make
02:07sure you get it is that we work two years and a half for each season of this show, you
02:13know.
02:14So imagine five seasons, it's impossible, impossible.
02:17That's more than a decade, you know, doing just one show.
02:22We wouldn't be there at the level we are today, you know.
02:25It's impossible to keep the rigour, the attention to detail that we have in this show.
02:33So it was the best that could happen, you know, saying, like, let's have two seasons.
02:38Let's finish in a moment where we are all loving what we're doing, you know.
02:42When we're in love with not just the material, but the process, you know, and the team.
02:49It hurts to say goodbye, but it's better to say goodbye at this moment than when you can't
02:56keep going, you know.
02:58So yeah.
02:59Thank you so much.
03:00Congratulations.
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