Andor showrunner Tony Gilroy reveals why Jyn Erso (Felicity Jones) doesn’t seem in season 2. With the second and ultimate season of the critically acclaimed sequence happening within the 4 years main as much as the occasions of Rogue One, there was hypothesis about whether or not Jyn would be a part of the Andor season 2 forged. The season options a number of references to Jyn’s father, Galen Erso (Mads Mikkelsen), and to the planet Eadu the place he’s stationed, however Jyn doesn’t make an look and is rarely referenced.

Whereas talking with Backstory Journal, Gilroy shares that when crafting season 2, he thought-about the whole lot, together with the opportunity of Jyn showing. He praises Jones as an actor and particular person, emphasizing that he would have cherished to work along with her once more, and that he was conscious of the numerous followers who wished to see her return. Nonetheless, Jyn doesn’t seem as a result of Gilroy didn’t see a possible or significant strategy to deliver her into the story. Take a look at his feedback beneath:

After I was constructing season 2 after season 1, I used to be taking a look at the whole lot. Felicity is only a unbelievable actor and a unbelievable individual and a extremely nice individual, and I understand how a lot love there’s for her on-line and the way many individuals have been begging for that to occur. If I might have considered a approach that did not tip the whole lot the wrong way up, I do not assume Lucasfilm would have had an issue. However I might by no means…when you begin it, what do you do with it? You bought to go all the way in which. Is she some connection to Noticed, and then you definitely get into that, however then you definitely return, and what does he say in Rogue One? It simply by no means pulled collectively.

What This Means For Andor

Present Canon Made A Jyn Look Difficult

Given his work on Rogue One, Gilroy is, unsurprisingly, a fan of Jyn, however he was by no means going to deliver her into Andor until it made sense for the story. With Noticed Gerrera (Forest Whitaker) and Jyn sharing quite a lot of historical past collectively, and Noticed being a key character in Andor, it is smart that Gilroy initially regarded for a possible avenue there. As indicated in his feedback, although, this may not have labored based mostly on the feedback that Jyn and Noticed make in Rogue One, particularly that they haven’t seen one another since she was 16.

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The Andor & Rogue One timeline has additionally beforehand established that Cassian Andor (Diego Luna) and Jyn had not met earlier than Rogue One and that Jyn steered away from the Insurgent Alliance earlier than they got here for her on Wobani. The Empire additionally didn’t know of her survival. With Jyn being unable to work together with Noticed, Cassian, the Insurgent Alliance, and with the Empire being unaware of who she actually was, there have been restricted choices for her to be included into Andor. Additionally, a lot of her story throughout Andor has already been informed within the novel Insurgent Rising by Beth Revis.

As a lot as I loved Jyn’s character in Rogue One, I’m glad she was not in Andor season 2’s finale or the sooner episodes. Past the issues of what had already been established within the canon timeline, there have been already loads of different storylines and character arcs that wanted to be resolved in season 2. Andor was by no means a present that introduced in acquainted characters only for the sake of it, as the whole lot was executed with vital narrative function, and that remained true till the very finish of the present.

Supply: Backstory Journal

Andor

8/10

Launch Date

2022 – 2025-00-00

Community

Disney+

Showrunner

Tony Gilroy