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.'
00:00I was watching the trailer and I saw a comment that said Cassian Andor must be in pain from carrying the Star Wars universe on his back. Does your back hurt?
00:09Not at all. I mean, if something I can tell you is that it relieves so much pain, you know, being in this universe and belonging to this family and being part of a project that people care so much about.
00:26But it's something very special, you know, and I can't compare this to any other experience in my life.
00:34You know, it's been 10 years of being blessed by working in something that matters to people. It's very special.
00:42What do you hope is the legacy of this character?
00:45I don't know. I hope there is... It's a good question. But I don't know. I'm no one to answer that one.
00:55And I 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 companies, 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 this, you know.
01:27And I can tell you one thing. The show Tony Gilroy pitched me when this was six years ago when we were about to start is the one we're delivering today.
01:37And that integrity would never happen without the freedom we got, you know.
01:45I 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?
02:00I mean, if you just say it that way, but I mean, what I was trying to say, and I want to make sure you get it,
02:08is that we worked two years and a half for each season of this show, you know.
02:13So imagine five seasons. It's impossible.
02:16Impossible. That'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 rigor, the attention to detail that we have in this show.
02:32So 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 keep going, you know.
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