cassian
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Stellan Skarsgård Explains the Intensity of Filming His Iconic Andor Speech
“Calm. Kindness, kinship. Love. I’ve given up all chance at inner peace, I’ve made my mind a sunless space. I share my dreams with ghosts. I wake up every day to an equation I wrote 15 years ago from which there’s only one conclusion: I’m damned for what I do.”
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Cassian Andor Still Must Discover Responsibility
Almost everyone loved the first season of Andor. Simply put, it was an enthralling and engaging season of television, unlike anything we’d seen before in Star Wars. However, like many things in Star Wars, we can’t lose sight of the fact it’s a prequel and, as such, does have to build to certain things.
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Andor Was Ready to Drop Star Wars’ First ‘Fuck the Empire’
One thing that always confused me about Andor was why Fiona Shaw — a Shakespearean actor extraordinaire and multiple award-winning star of stage, screen, and TV — would have accepted the small, muted role of Maarva Andor, Cassian’s adoptive mother. That is, until I saw the series finale, where Shaw’s massive talents were put to…
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Even the Andor Post-Credits Scene Was Perfectly Andor
As the final credits rolled on what has been some of the best Star Wars of all time, you almost didn’t want to see Andor do anything that might be considered derivative of modern blockbuster entertainment. No big cameos, no huge surprises, just good old-fashioned storytelling. But then something popped up at the end of…