Rodrigo Perez at The Playlist spoke to Academy Award-nominated writer Beau Willimon about who his favourite Andor character to write for is.
“I’ve got to go with Saw Gerrera because you get to write these grand arias, and he’s so wonderfully and deliciously insane,” Willimon laughed.
“When you get to write something for Forest Whitaker, you could pretty much give the guy a phone book and it’s going to be great,” he said. “Getting to write that
Rhydonium speech [ed. The highly combustible and dangerous starship fuel featured in the series that Gerrera purposefully inhales, where you really feel that this is in his DNA, and this recurring theme in the show that Tony had from the very beginning, that none of these people are going to make it.”
For Willimon, Gerrera represented the ultimate willing-to-risk-it-all fighter who typifies these overarching themes.
“Through ‘Rogue One,’ we know that anyone who’s still alive in the ‘Andor’ show, most of them are going to bite the dust in the movie that you watch right after episode 12 of season two,” he continued. “So, it’s this idea of—who are the people that are willing to do this, to make these sacrifices, that need this despite the fact that they’ll never see the fruits of their labor. No one, I think, illustrates that idea better than Saw Gerrera.”
It all dovetails so brilliantly together, “Andor” and ‘Rogue One,’ I told Willimon that they could extend some of the iconic quotes. “It’s like ‘Rebellions are built on hope and hope is built on sacrifice,’” I suggested.
“I love that,” he said. “It’s absolutely true, and put that on the poster.”
When asked to write his favorite speech or monologue for “Andor,” Willimon again cited a sequence featuring Whitaker.
“The rhydonium monologue felt like just one of those arias you get to write that is totally earned and totally character specific, and when you do get just to let the fireworks go,” he said.
During our conversation, I posited that Saw Gerrera and his band of rebels would make for an excellent ‘Andor’ spin-off sho,w to which Willimon totally agreed. “Totally, I’d love to work on that show.”
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