One of the most exciting characters we ’re eager to see more of inseason twoofAndoron Disney+ is Stellan Skarsgård ’s Luthen Rael , the rebellion ’s main orchestrator . As the Empire has tried to uncover who he is , the mystifying helper of many identities and stunning wardrobe choices has become a fan - favourite new character of theStar Warsuniverse who ultimately gets Andor ( Diego Luna ) to join the cause .
In a live Q&A session on the officialStar WarsYouTube channel , showrunner Tony Gilroy was asked where he catch the stirring for the “ morally grizzly ” character . Gilroy broke it down as an creative person starting to exemplify the earth he ’s edifice and who inhabits it .
“ This is the same as with any character . I think the soft thing to say is reckon you just have a pencil and a piece of paper and you ’re gon na start to draw somebody , ” he enjoin of Luthen , who happens to be the designer of the rebellion in a Galax urceolata far , far out . “ I needed an organizer . I ask a recruiter . I needed somebody who was at the center of something . I involve a Modern mysterious character . What would he be like ? What ’s a cool job for that ? What ’s the kind of job that gives you access to all kinds of things and also plugs you on Coruscant ? Oh God , what if it ’s a verandah ? What if its an passe gallery and then once you eff that just leads to all kinds of other things . Well , he call for a sidekick does n’t he ? ”
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Ever since his introduction , Skarsgård has imbued Luthen with a cold determination to get all the pieces moving no matter how many he loses along the room as the ISB attempts to find him . As Gilroy points out , it ’s really address to the threat he poses in the volatility of “ how ’s he gon na do this and how long has he been doing it . ” In his all - timekeeper soliloquy from season one , Luthen all but read his forfeit is his humanity in decree to invent the tools needed .
Gilroy continued to share how he ’s learned more about Luthen since writing the first season . “ There ’s a mint of thing about Luthen that I did not know until we started writing season two . So those thing we ’ll get wind about Luthen , [ like ] who he was before in season two . You ’re gon na see a guy who make a startup company in his service department and in Aldhani , he goes public . It ’s gon na be the stress of how do you take your slight revolution and all the work you ’ve done for 15 year — how do you go public with that and how do you go big ? That ’s really the stress [ he ’ll be under ] so we ’re gon na watch him under a great deal of emphasis . ”
And since he ’s clearly a instrumentalist still unseen even in events that survive his legacy beyondRogue One , we ca n’t await to see if he die starting the revolution or slinks even deeper into its shadows .
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