While the galaxy is on the precipice of war, and characters like Cassian Andor are striding headfirst into the frey risking life and limb, it’s hard to argue against Senator Mon Mothma being the one who has the most on the line. Prominent in the Imperial Senate, her actions not only help pay for the rebellion against the Empire but also see the sights close in on her own actions, and her family with it and speaking to EW, show creator Tony Gilroy broached that subject as the second season edges ever close.
Mon Mothma had to walk this incredible delicate line in season 1. Obviously, by A New Hope she’s gone public, so what might we see from her?
Canonically, there’s the moment where she leaves the Senate, and that’s in our timeline. So we’re definitely dealing with that, but I would say, of all the characters in the show, of all the hellacious things that people go through, and all of the difficulties and hardships, I don’t think anybody has a harder road than she does. Because she has to do everything that everybody else does with all the tension, fear, and anxiety and she has to do it in public.
She has nowhere to hide, and this season just ramps that up to an almost unbearable point. What Genevieve is going to do in this second season — we realized in the first season what a brilliant actress she was and that we hadn’t found the limits of what she could do. We still haven’t found them. But he opportunity to write for her and write her story large was very important to me in the second season.
