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Andor showrunner never planned on answering one of the Star Wars series' first questions, he reveals: "I didn’t really didn’t want to fill that in"
The Disney+ series started with Cassian Andor looking for his missing sister... and no-one ever found her
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Those with long memories — or who rewatched the first season before the second dropped, because I know a lot of you did — might remember that the show started with Cassian looking for his missing sister… a plot thread that was never resolved during the rest of the show. According to series creator and showrunner Tony Gilroy, that was always the plan.
“People wanted to know if we’re going to resolve the sister. And the sister, in the beginning, is so much more interesting to me as a deficit. She’s much more valuable to me for Cassian as an absence,” Gilroy told The Hollywood Reporter in an exit interview about the acclaimed series. “As he says in the end, ‘Maybe I should stop saving people.’ His need to return and save people and to be a savior and the compulsion to do that comes from this hole in his life, and I didn’t really didn’t want to fill that in.”
(Of course, the sister would presumably have the same last name as Cassian, if Lucasfilm ends up wanting to make a third season of Andor despite the events of Rogue One: A Star Wars Story. Just saying…)
Cassian’s sister occupied a similar space to Andy Serkis’s Kino Loy, Gilroy said, in that audiences also really wanted that character to return and find resolution in the second season… and he wasn’t interested in providing that, either.
“Andy dropped the mic, man. What am I going to do that’s going to be better than what we did [in the first season]? All it does is minimize that moment,” Gilroy argued (correctly, in my opinion). “I knew a lot of people were talking about whether we had a way of [bringing him back]. But I didn’t want to have that sort of coincidental environment.”
Andor is available to stream in its entirety on Disney+.
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