Tay Kolma Death, Mon Mothma dances at the wedding

Spoiler alarm: This article contains spoilers for the first three episodes of “Andor” season 2, which are now streaming on Disney+.

Welcome to The Rebellion, Mon Mothma.

The Senator of Genevievieve O’reily’s “Star Wars” received an abrupt awakening in the hard realities to stage a rebellion from “Andor” during the premiere of the second season. In the first three episodes, Mo organizes a wasteful wedding for her young daughter Leida (Bronte Carmichael) with the son of Shady businessman Davo Sculdun (Richard Dillane). In the first season, Mon and Davo negotiated a deal to give her a loan so that she can transfer money to the rebels to arrange the marriage of Leida. Everything becomes complicated when the old flame Tay Kolma (Ben Miles), a wealthy banker who is wrapped in the program, cleverly asks a bribe to keep his business afloat and to stay calm through the financial agreement.

In the middle of the wedding chaos, her daughter despises her and her husband that she has an affair with TAY. Mon is faced with a terrible decision: pay Tay or … eliminate it with the help of Luthen Rael (Stellan Skarsgard). In the end, Mon cannot risk ruining her rebel plans, so Luthen organizes an action with his spy Cinta Kaz (Varada Sethu) to kill him. A disguised cinta pretends to be Tay’s new driver and wipe it away at the end of the wedding, probably never to be seen again. In the meantime, Mon has a few drinks and dances at night to some showcitated wedding music, but O’Reilly explains how much is in her head in the final scene.

It seems that their relationships from Mon Mons and their family become more their connections to rebellion. Where does she end up with her daughter and her husband?

What is unusual about these first three episodes is that they are a lens in their family culture. It is such an interesting piece that I would never have expected from researching this complicated family dynamics and relationships. The mother-daughter scenes are beautiful and heartbreaking, and the scenes with their husbands feel so real. There is a moment when it really changed what I could have had for you. He gives a speech at the wedding and they think they may have been happy at one point. They take their decisions and ideologies far apart. In the scene shortly before the wedding, her daughter is brutal and makes it very clear that she makes opposition decisions against what her mother did. It’s pretty painful.

Then you have there at the wedding and your friend Tay, who was such an ally in season 1. He was so instrumental to bring everything together, and now he is asked a bit on the edges. He is a bit loose and he becomes this threat. There is this scene with Luten, in which he really calls her up for her perhaps romanticism about what this rebellion is and that she can have everything. But of course she can’t. He calls her and she tacitly agrees that her friend is murdered. It follows them forever. This is a really important threshold that we see that it corresponds to this decision, this rebellion comes first.

What’s going through monsters while she dances wildly?

At that moment she struggles with the demons into her. She uses the facade of this cultural celebration to a certain extent to be released in order to prevent pain. The only two people who really know what’s going on are the audience and Mon Mothma. For everyone else, she has become a bit messy to this lens at a wedding. But we understand that she struggles with chaos in her own head.

What music played during the dance scene? Was it the same song that we hear in the episode?

That was also in season 1. The piece of music that I believe was in the brothel scene in season 1 and also in one of the party scenes of Mon Mothma. This is like the mega hit mix that we have. It feels like it is part of the cultural material that is galaxy at that time. She is able to really leave itself out within this. You can feel this collision from old and new in these scenes with this speech that Skuldun gives with the really horny piece that he gives as this performative gift. You can feel how it turns against this Gauche-Ness. The crescendo of this dance piece really enables us to observe what you publish in this episode. When Mon -Mothma dancing and struggling from the structure of this calm aesthetics, there was such a gift.

There are other deaths in the premiere episodes, but Tay is one of the most surprising. How does that stay with Mon?

Rebellion has many faces. Each is important and painful, but they are different facets of this one idea. Forever, Tay’s murder follows it because she understands that she is part of it. It only breaks this romantic idea that you could get into the rebellion so far and have no blood in your hands. That was her friend from childhood. It breaks a little deep in her. It is important to show that everything goes hand in hand with costs for all of these characters. Everything requires courage, but it doesn’t come for free. Everything comes together with pain. Rebellion is not pretty.

This interview was processed and compressed.