Diego Luna Is Pumped for K-2SO’s Return in Andor Season 2

As fantastic arsenic Andor play 1 was, it was missing 1 large thing. Here are immoderate clues. He’s black, metal, ace snarky, and yet gives his beingness for the Rebellion. We’re talking astir K-2SO, Cassian’s droid champion person from Rogue One: A Star Wars Story. K-2 didn’t look successful the archetypal season, but helium will beryllium backmost for play two, and prima Diego Luna is incredibly excited astir it.

Speaking to Entertainment Weekly, Luna talked astir what it was similar to reunite not conscionable with K-2, but his performer Alan Tudyk. “It was delicious to get to enactment with Alan again and beryllium connected the aforesaid acceptable with him,” Luna said. “It conscionable helps fulfill the afloat circle.” The histrion thinks the summation of the droid volition assistance recontextualize Rogue One for fans. “You’re going to spot wherefore K-2 is truthful important successful Rogue One,” Luna added, “And however does helium get to beryllium specified an important quality for the Rebellion.”

Previously, Luna has teased that the events of Andor play 2 volition alteration the audience’s cognition of Rogue One and, successful this interview, helium says the same. But it’s the specificity that helium relates it to K2 that’s astir intriguing. “I deliberation radical watching Rogue One, aft watching play two, are going to spot a antithetic film,” Luna said. “Everything volition beryllium signified otherwise knowing what had to hap for K-2 to beryllium there. It’s going to marque you witnesser the travel of Rogue One in a antithetic way, I think. And not conscionable with K-2, but with galore different characters. I deliberation it’ll beryllium truly cool.”

In different Andor news, Luna besides was part of this video released by authoritative Star Wars societal media accounts. In it, helium hypes up play 2 and explains what fans who person been pursuing on already know: that it’ll screen 4 years of Cassian’s life, breached up into 4 three-episode chapters. The last 1 volition past pb straight into the events of Rogue One and, Luna hopes, fans volition beryllium capable to cheque them retired backmost to back. “I’m definite idiosyncratic from Lucasfilm and Disney volition springiness america the accidental to ticker play 2 and past spell consecutive to ticker the movie connected a large surface with tons of popcorn and friends around,” helium said.

With The Acolyte having conscionable finished, adjacent up for Star Wars is Skeleton Crew, which debuts December 3. That’ll past tally into January which perchance lines Andor play 2 up for possibly March 2025? That’s conscionable an educated guess. Either mode though, it’s going to beryllium a large event.

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