Elizabeth Dulau, Andor’s Kleya Marki, talks about that difficult monologue in Season 2 Episode 10, titled ‘Make It Stop’, saying “I was super nervous because it felt like the entire filming process was leading up to that day”. Beware of spoilers ahead!
Dulau had one particularly fateful scene in the back of her mind the entire production, and it’s the seismic moment from writer Tom Bissell’s tenth episode, “Make It Stop,” in which Kleya has to end Luthen’s life. Denise Gough’s Dedra Meero finally cracked the case involving Luthen and Kleya’s Axis network, and while she was briefly distracted mid-arrest, Luthen attempted to end his life to protect the Rebellion’s many remaining secrets from the Empire’s information extraction apparatus.
Knowing that Meero was able to keep Luthen on life support, Kleya sprung into action and infiltrated the hospital that admitted him. That’s when Dulau essentially became the star of her own spy-action movie, as Kleya blew up a spaceport as a diversion and killed numerous Stormtroopers in a surgical manner. As soon as Kleya gained access to Luthen’s hospital room, she immediately closed the window, sealing the room from any adjacent sunlight. This act was a nod to Luthen’s season one monologue about how he’s turned his mind into a “sunless space” and sacrificed everything for a “sunrise” he’ll never see. Kleya then pulled the plug on her adoptive father’s life, fulfilling Luthen’s own prophecy in the process.
“[That monologue] has always been there in the background,” Dulau says. “I was super nervous because it felt like the entire filming process was leading up to that day. I always had it in the back of my mind, and I deliberately tried not to overthink it. When I looked at Stellan lying there on this hospital bed, I really felt heartbroken for what Kleya was about to do.”
Read the interview in full here, and stream the finale of Andor on Disney+ now.
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