Andor: “I am convinced that the career of Genevieve O’Reilly will take off after season 2”

Creator Tony Gilroy is enthusiastic about her actress in Première, while Senator My Mothma bursts the screen in the Star Wars series: “She is dazzling, she can do everything!”

She is not born of the last rain of Star Wars !

It’s been two decades that Genevieve O’Reilley is linked to the fate of the very distant galaxy.

Since she was chosen by George Lucas To play the senator My MothmaIn Revenge of the Sith,, in 2005. Since then, My Mothma returned in Snape One (2016), then in the animated series Star Wars Rebels (2017). But it’s really with Andor that she won her braids as a saga star. Especially in season 2, where his character bursts the screen.

After the broadcast of the first three episodes of season 2 ofAndoravailable on Disney+ since today, we guess that My Mothma is taking on a completely different scale, while the senator activates politically to counter the Empire, while working in the shadow in the creation of the rebel alliance, which we have known for – since The return of the Jedi (in 1983) – that it will become one of the bosses. At the time, it was Caroline Blakiston who played the character. Its younger version is therefore embodied dramatically by Genevieve O’ReilleyIrlando-Australian actress largely unknown in the battalion and who has struggled to unravel in industry in recent decades.

Crossed in movies Matrix or in Tarzanshe always had to be satisfied with the background. But at 48, she offers herself a chance to die the screen, and brilliantly grabs it in season 2 ofAndorlike his impressive dance scene, when her daughter’s wedding, when My Mothma Low everything on the track, both collapsed by the news and eager to maintain its public facet.

“I had crossed Genevieve O’Reilley for one or two days on the set of Snape One at the time. But I must admit that I did not know too much what place would take My Mothma Subsequently in history …“says the creator Tony Gilroy.

“”And then I saw Genevieve at work, and it was impressive. And in this season 2, she is just dazzling. “

The creator, visibly won over by the power of his interpretation, does not hide his enthusiasm and is convinced that the talent of Genevieve O’Reilley will reveal itself to the world thanks to season 2 ofAndor ::

“When you are author, it’s a treat to write for an actress like her, who can do everything. I am convinced that her career will take off after this season 2.. She has already done interesting things in the past, but I am sure that she will take a step after Andor. “

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It must be said that he has left him a place of choice. Beyond these first three episodes, My Mothma will take its share of the fight. A more political part, especially in the Galactic Senate. Tony Gilroy Decipher his presence:

“She really dominates and that is not to say! Because My Mothma Really has the most complicated trajectory of the characters in the series, because it acts in public. There is always a crowd watching it, and it makes its mission more complicated. “

The senator on her own alone will not be able to overthrow Palpatine. But undoubtedly, she will have greatly contributed to it. It remains to be seen if Genevieve O’Reilley will also be able to pull the chestnuts from the fire Andor.

Andor season 2 will continue next Wednesday on Disney more in France.