re: Andor Season 2 Discussion (All Episodes Available)

On a side note, who'd be down for a Luthen origin story starring Bill Skarsgard?

Here is a behind the scenes video of episodes 4-6.

I mean one of his 95 sons who are also actors. Bill seems to be the best choice in terms of how much more he resembles Stellen.

Am I the only one more interested in what happens with Syril than anything else happening on this show? Such a bizarre character to feature in a series like this, Tony Gilroy has to have big plans for him. I predict he goes full rebel.

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Cassian will smoke him, move along, and that will be the end of Syril.

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Who knows what Gilroy will do, but Syril has a pitiful existence. I can see his exit just being a blip.

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...the stealth MVP of Andor’s second season is none other than a seemingly insignificant antiquities shop assistant.

Kleya Marki steals every single scene she’s in as the assistant to flashy antiquities dealer Luthen Rael (Stellan Skarsgård). Of course, Kleya is more than a mere shop assistant. Played to perfection by Elizabeth Dulau, the character is actually a key component of the emerging rebellion, and Kleya’s steely gaze could pierce even Darth Vader’s black armor.

While at this point it is practically impossible to imagine anyone else in the role, it turns out Dulau was actually a last-minute replacement for the replacement to the original actor cast for the part. “We had two other actors who had come on and they both got bigger jobs so begged be released,” reveals Andor creator Tony Gilroy. “So we needed a Kleya, and Nina Gold [in casting] put up Elizabeth Dulau in front of us and said, 'She has no credit. She just graduated from RADA like 15 minutes ago. She's never done anything.'"

They brought in the freshly graduated Dulau, and, as Gilroy tells it, “Oh my Lord, just from the first minute!”

In fact, Gilroy notes that he and Skarsgård still can’t stop talking about his scene partner. “He's just in awe of her,” Gilroy says. “She never gave him an inch, not from the very first audition. I don't know how she has that kind of courage or that kind of spine. She came into the audition, and she was just a wall to him all the way through. Holy cow!”

According to the creator, there’s nothing Dulau can’t handle. “She's bulletproof. We do not have one bad minute of film on her anywhere. She's like a Meryl Streep, natural, mind-blowing actor. So you start to write into her as we go through season 1, and then more and more and more and more and more. She can do anything.”

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Kleya Marki steals every single scene she’s in

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I have a feeling she will die as an unsung hero for the rebellion.

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Along the same lines - what happens with Mon's husband? I'm guessing hes going to stumble onto her activities. Do they off him? Do they part ways amicably with him promising to be silent? Does he stick with her and is just a background contributor to the cause we never hear about?

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I think it's gonna turn out Perrin was in on it with Mon all the time, or at least well aware of what she she is doing and helping out in his own way. I think their argument about his gambling in front of the eavesdropping chauffeur in season one was an act to explain her disappearing credits.

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I don't think so.

His motivation in life is to enjoy himself. He has that currently. Protected upper class, peaceful homeworld not under duress, in the "in crowd" on Coruscant. Enough disposable income/wealth to gamble large sums, and the arranged marriage gives him some room to be a bit of a playboy. He does seem to be growing out of that, but it seems to be more of an "I'm getting older" thing, instead of him trying to change anything.
There doesn't seem to be any incentive (from his perspective) to change the system, as he's benefitting from it.

And I think the scene with the chauffeur carries much more meaning and power when it's Mon screwing her husband over for the cause, instead of them playacting together.
Hell, if he was in on it, there's no reason for her to use her banker. He's got the gambling debt connections, he could come up with a way to launder the money going to the Rebellion himself instead of what she ended up doing.

My interpretation was that because of the need to disassemble part of the piece to remove the bug, Kleya wasn’t going to be able to do it with others watching. So she would have either had to somehow get into the exhibit alone, or do it while others were there but distracted.

She chose the latter, presumably because of the tight timeline. I thought the scene was a bit silly (albeit entertaining) but I don’t think it’s some kind of big plot hole or anything.

To me the larger point of that whole sequence wasn’t the bug. It was the fact that Luthen and Kleya are operating on razor-thin margins. Their entire operation depends on the ability to hide in plain sight, and anything that draws the smallest amount of scrutiny could ruin that. I think that’s a major point the writers were trying to illustrate - that the entire house of cards could come crashing down at a moment’s notice.