The Peabody Awards were handed out in a lavish ceremony on Saturday night, and Andor was nominated and won in the Entertainment category, which gave showrunner Tony Gilroy the perfect opportunity to head on out and represent the show one more time, making very clear the intent of the series message.
“we spent six years contemplating a fascist takeover of a galaxy far, far away. Six years thinking about what happens to ordinary beings when an authoritarian, insane, unchecked regime comes into the deal, and the show is really kind of what we learned.
“If you’re not willing to fight for the things that you love, your family, community, your culture, your planet, your truth, freedom, there’s an asshole ready to come in and take it away. We learned that bravery and sacrifice and resistance comes in all shapes and sizes, and we learned that courage is contagious.”
It’s also worthwhile listening to (and reading the transcript of) Gilroys appearance on episode 204 of the ‘We Disrupt This Broadcast‘ poodcast, where he lays down his thoughts on revolution and rebellion.
“It’s like families, right? They’re all unique and they’re all the same. And so I’ve been able to just sort of catalog shop history in a horrifying way all the way through the whole show. That’s what I’ve been doing. You know, there’s comps all the way through our, the second season that we’re coming out with now, the first year was basically the making of a revolutionary. It took the whole year for Diego Luna’s character, Cassian Andor to become a revolutionary. He starts off as a, I mean, he couldn’t be more cynical or disinterested or apolitical. By the end of it, he’s a committed revolutionary, and that’s sort of his indoctrination.
But the second half that’s coming out this spring is the four years that take him to his ultimate fate. And that’s about the consolidation of an organized rebellion, and the factionalism within it, the difficulty of coalition in many ways. And I’ve really, it’s been very helpful to know the things that I know or at least know where to go back and look for what I need to look for.”
While not an award for a Star Wars project, Ahmed Best couldn’t be more a part of the fabric of the saga, so a win for him – for Performance, Voice, and Motion Capture Director for the video game South of Midnight – is a win for us.
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Huge congratulations to Ahmed and his colleagues for their South of Midnight win, and the entire team behind Andor for once again doing us proud.
