Diego Luna Is Pumped for Okay-2SO’s Return in Andor Season 2

As incredible as Andor season one was, it was lacking one huge factor. Listed below are some clues. He’s black, steel, tremendous snarky, and finally provides his life for the Insurrection. We’re talking about K-2SO, Cassian’s droid finest pal from Rogue One: A Star Wars Story. Okay-2 didn’t seem within the first season, however he will be back for season two, and star Diego Luna is extremely enthusiastic about it.

Talking to Entertainment Weekly, Luna talked about what it was prefer to reunite not simply with Okay-2, however his performer Alan Tudyk. “It was scrumptious to get to work with Alan once more and be on the identical set with him,” Luna stated. “It simply helps fulfill the complete circle.” The actor thinks the addition of the droid will assist recontextualize Rogue One for followers. “You’re going to see why Okay-2 is so essential in Rogue One,” Luna added, “And the way does he get to be such an essential character for the Insurrection.”

Previously, Luna has teased that the occasions of Andor season two will change the viewers’s notion of Rogue One and, on this interview, he says the identical. But it surely’s the specificity that he relates it to K2 that’s most intriguing. “I feel folks watching Rogue One, after watching season two, are going to see a distinct movie,” Luna stated. “All the things will probably be signified in another way realizing what needed to occur for Okay-2 to be there. It’s going to make you witness the journey of Rogue One differently, I feel. And never simply with Okay-2, however with many different characters. I feel it’ll be actually cool.”

In different Andor information, Luna additionally was part of this video released by official Star Wars social media accounts. In it, he hypes up season two and explains what followers who have been following along already know: that it’ll cowl 4 years of Cassian’s life, damaged up into 4 three-episode chapters. The ultimate one will then lead instantly into the occasions of Rogue One and, Luna hopes, followers will be capable to examine them out again to again. “I’m certain somebody from Lucasfilm and Disney will give us the chance to observe season two after which go straight to observe the movie on a giant display with tons of popcorn and associates round,” he stated.

With The Acolyte having simply completed, subsequent up for Star Wars is Skeleton Crew, which debuts December 3. That’ll then run into January which probably strains Andor season two up for possibly March 2025? That’s simply an informed guess. Both method although, it’s going to be a significant occasion.

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