Stellan Skarsgård Says Andor‘s Strength Is in Its Heroes Not Lightsabers

Andor star Stellan Skarsgård recently appeared on the Q with Tom Power show to discuss the series’ revolution game master’s deliberate ambiguity behind the curtain. Luthen Rael, if that’s his real name, doesn’t personally use pew-pews or the Force to advance the resistance against the Empire himself and that’s always made the organizer’s motivations hard to pin down. “The people don’t know if he’s a good guy or a bad guy, which I really like, because none of us are really good guys or bad guys. I mean, it’s like real people. He does really terrible things, but so does any general—he sacrifices people for a cause, and so does every military,” he said. Luthen essentially tells Andor his identity doesn’t matter when he won’t see the sunrise of their revolution; what matters is that the Rebels get there no matter the cost, which as audience members we get to see over the course of the events in Rogue One: A Star Wars Story and George Lucas’ original Star Wars trilogy. Skarsgård continued ... Read full article.