Because Gilroy chose to focus on writing future episodes and rarely came to set, Luna served as his consigliere. In addition to advising on casting and production and art design, he addressed actors’ questions about the writer’s motivations for a character and asked for certain scenes to be shot again to align more with Gilroy’s vision. When deciding whether to give actor Muhannad Ben Amor, who plays young rebel Wilmon Paak, a bigger role, Gilroy looked to Luna. “I go to Diego, ‘Man, tell me, what do you think? Let’s talk to this kid — can we really get this second season out of him?’ Those kinds of things are invaluable.” (When asked about shouldering so much responsibility, Luna laughs: “I slept much better than Tony over those years.”)

huh dunno why I posted this unrelated extract about Diego Luna. Anyway how come Serkis wasn’t in Andor season 2? his character’s death may have been implied but starwars characters have survived far worse odds and Andy’s performance in season 1 got a lot of buzz…