ANDOR Star Stellan Skarsgård Talks Season 2, STAR WARS for Grown Ups, and Premiere Date

Like the rest of you, I’m extremely excited about the return of Andor for its second season, the production of which wrapped a couple of weeks ago. That first season of the series was so great, and Season 2 is going to close out the story that Tony Gilroy and the Lucasfilm team set out to tell for this character.

Stellan Skarsgård, who portrays revolutionary leader Luthen Rael in the series, recently talked about Season 2, and he seems very confident that it’s going to be great. He also mentions the show being Star Wars for grown-ups and teases when the new season will be released.

While talking with GamesRadar+ during a recent interview he said: "It's the last season of it. It ends where Rogue One starts so it’s up to that point. I think it will be very good as already the first one was satisfying for me because it’s sort of Star Wars for grown-ups – it’s a more realistic and complicated society that they’re living in and the claustrophobia of the fascist regime is palpable. I think we have a good season ahead of us."

As for when he thinks Season 2 will premiere, he said: "It will probably be out towards the end of the year or early next."

The second season will take us through the years of Diego Luna’s Cassian Andor's journey as a spy for The Rebellion and how he tracked down the secret of The Death Star's construction. The story leads right up to the events of Rogue One: A Star Wars Story.

Creator Tony Gilroy previously teased the end of the series, sharing that the creative team knows “exactly where we’re going” and that it’s been “creatively potent” to know where the story is going. He said: “If you know your ending, it really helps. We know exactly where we’re going. You know what you have to deliver emotionally and what the story has to do. It’s a decision borne of survival, but it’s good for us creatively.”

Gilroy explained how the story will play out in the final season of the series saying: “When we come back later, it’ll be literally like a Friday, Saturday and Sunday. And then, we’ll jump a year, and then it’ll be, like, four or five days, and then we’ll jump a year, and then there’ll be another four or five days, and then we jump a year, and be another four or five days. I don’t know whether anybody ever did it before because I don’t know if anybody had a chance to do it before. We’re in the brand-new era of making these shows. These shows are all new. This whole idea of how to make these shows, and the economic scale of them is new, and everything’s new.”

Every three episodes in Andor Season 2 will cover one year's worth of story, and when previously talking about what we can expect from the series, he explains that it explores the stresses, heartbreak, and triumphs of the growing rebellion: "Think about the revolution, and think about it from Luthen Rael's point of view, and Saw Gerrera's point of view, and Mon Mothma's point of view. They've started off as original gangsters in this thing, and it's underground, and it's secret, and it's small, and it's isolated, and contained. In four years, it's going to go big. Think about any restaurant that you knew that started off as a coffee shop, think about any startup company. What happens? Things get very complicated. If your stock and trade of your business is paranoia, and secrecy, and betrayal, and heavy consequences, expanding your business is really difficult."

Gilroy went on to say: "Then think about it from the Imperial side and they are getting very, very close to a very important energy project. People may have heard of it. It's an energy project. I guess that's not a surprise, but I think you'll see the wear and tear, you'll see all the stresses, all the heartbreak, and all the triumph of the 20 or 30 people that we're carrying forward, with Cassian at the center. You'll see those people stumble forward into a very complicated bit of chaos and history that we will pay attention to.”

He added: "We're gonna work the calendar. There are events on our calendar and you know what they are, some of them, and they're very important, and we will play those out."

This next Star Wars series can’t get here soon enough!