Tony Gilroy Has an Excellent Reason Why Jyn Erso Didn't Pop Up in ‘Andor'
When you finish watching season two of Andor, the natural next move is to dive right into Rogue One: A Star Wars Story, the movie that introduced Diego Luna's Cassian Andor to the galaxy far, far away. But he's not actually the lead character in the 2016 film—that distinction goes to Felicity Jones' Jyn Erso, daughter of reluctant Death Star architect Galen Erso. And while Andor leads right into Rogue One, and the two stories share many of the same characters, Andor creator Tony Gilroy made the call that Jyn wouldn't be among them.
In fact, he never even considered that Jyn would show up in the Andor finale, according to a new interview with Entertainment Weekly.
'I tried to sketch some versions along the way of what we would do,' Gilroy explained. 'Episode 12 is very unique … we are not trying to hype anything in 12. We always knew it was going to be not a low energy, but a different kind of episode.'
Gilroy did briefly consider bringing more Rogue One characters in—Danny Mays' Tivic the informant, for instance, who's killed by Andor early in Rogue One, and maybe even Mads Mikkelsen's Galen Erso—before thinking better of it.
'In the end, I realized if people didn't absolutely have to be there, they shouldn't,' Gilroy reasoned. 'And it would've been lame to bring Jyn back as a cameo. That would've been really disrespectful in a way. I'd rather honor Rogue and keep it straight.'
He's also well aware that Rogue One fans are now re-evaluating their view of Jyn and Cassian's relationship. With Andor fleshing out the relationship between Bix (Adria Arjona) and the doomed rebel, including their baby glimpsed at the end of the Disney+ series, it seems highly likely Andor wasn't falling for Jyn while they plotted to steal the Death Star plans after all.
'People who thought that was the love of his life are going to have to reorient their thinking,' Gilroy joked.
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