We’re now over a week past the end of Andor season 2, but as expected the conversation continues, the questions just keep on coming and so do the answers, which includes this illuminating reveal from Tony Gilroy as he explains to Nerdist that it’s Kleya rather than Luthen who is in charge of their covert outfit, and goes into why he constructed their relationship that way.
“I didn’t want anybody to think there was anything romantic. I didn’t want anybody to think she was his daughter or his lover. And I wanted the relationship to be absolutely as antiseptic as it is. But that required really explaining its provenance [in the flashback]. Then when you get into the provenance, you have this girl and the potential problem; oh my God, is he manipulating her into this life?
“And when you try to build against that, you realize it’s really cool. She’s actually been in charge of the thing from day one, from the moment they met. Kleya’s been in charge of everything. She really has been the boss. He’s afraid of her all the way through. If you go back and look at the whole show, she really is the navigator all the way through, from the time they met. And that’s a really cool thing to play with.”
