The return of K-2SO is one that fans are uber-excited to see, long-awaited after not happening in season one of Andor back in 2022, but it could be a surprise to learn that showrunner Tony Gilroy had a number of reasons to hold back the bone-dry droid despite fans clamouring for his sarcastic return.
“[Limiting K-2SO] K-2SO came from the experience of making Rogue, to be honest with you,” Gilroy says. “From the very beginning, that was one of the most difficult parts of the original conversation — how long I was going to have to delay [K-2SO]? Because what can you do with him? I don’t want people to go back and diagram Rogue, but just within that movie, there are two or three or four places where we are hiding him — where he has to stay on the ship or can’t go somewhere. He’s a really, really difficult piece of equipment to carry through a story. The limitations on him are huge. He’s a very visible, troublesome piece of story gear. So I knew intuitively how long I would have to wait to do it.
[K-2SO] is fantastic and he’s funny. Tudyk is hysterical and it’s really great. We were like, ‘Okay, we’re going to [have him in the show] and let’s make it spectacular and let’s really make a thing out of it. And that’s what we’ve tried to do.”
