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One of the things that makes the Star Wars galaxy so appealing is the alien creatures that populate it. While humans are still front and center of the stories most of the time, you don’t have to wait long to see them surrounded by these colorful extraterrestrials, from Chewbacca to Yoda. And yet when it comes to Andor, which premiered its second season, there are significantly fewer aliens to spot. It’s something that Tony Gilroy, who created the Disney+ subscription-exclusive series, is well aware of, but he opened up about these smaller numbers while speaking with CinemaBlend.

Gilroy addressed this topic with our own Jeff McCobb while he was seated next to Mon Mothma actress Genevieve O’Reilly, who discussed her character’s drunken dance sequence in “Harvest.” When Jeff asked Gilroy if he noticed that Andor doesn’t include as many aliens compared to other Star Wars projects, the showrunner answered.
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00:00this might be like the most uh the least amount of aliens we've ever seen and like alien creatures
00:08we've ever seen in any project in the star wars universe have you thought about that at all
00:12yeah i'm a little bit sensitive about it i mean we it we we we've tried to do more and more and more
00:17um there's a lot of different reasons for it it's um but yeah there i think there are more
00:25they're more this season than than previously and and i'm always trying i'm always trying it's it's
00:30on my mind it's on my mind all the time well i mean no pressure because that's kind of what i like
00:34about it it's like the same reason i love drug one it's like it's if there's something about it just
00:37feels more grounded and real you know what i mean you could say the same thing about lightsabers you
00:41know they're a very strong flavor when they come in and it really shifts things you have to be really
00:45careful about how you do it yeah and but it makes it more impactful when they do pop in i agree i agree

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