Why the Star of Andor Elizabeth Dulau does not see Luthen and Kleya as Dad and Girl

When we meet the leader of the first rebels Luthen Rael (Stellan Skarsgård) in “Star Wars: Andor,” he helps Cassian Andor (Diego Luna) to escape Ferrix police and recruit him for a Heist job. Then We see Luthen living a double life, working as a luxurious antique dealer on Coruscant, the capital of the empire he fought. Kleya Marki (Elizabeth Dulau) is Luthen’s assistant in the two of his life.

So from the beginning, Luthen has had an air of mystery; We see early that he wears one mask (well, wig) so are there others? In “Andor” Season 1 CHAPTER 8, “NARKINA 5,” Saw Gerrera (Forest Whitaker), Radical Anti-Imperialistasks Luthen what his ideology is. Luthen replies that he is “cowardly” who is afraid to let the empire grow unbeaten. Ok, but that is not that Really answer the question. What did him so much fear in the first place?

In that regard, how did Luthen and Kleya fake such an unrecorded trust, where they are both So ready to sink to extremes to destroy much more evil? “Andor” revealed Backstory Luthen even darker than expected in his last chapterSeason 2 “Make It Stop.” At one time he was an imperial soldier called Lear. She participated in at least one massacre (and perhaps more) and discovered a young girl (April Woods) hiding for her life in her ship. His faith was already shaken in the empire and he unwilling, taking the girl with him. One guess what her name was.

In a unique interview with /movie, Tony Gilroy’s “Andor” creator said that Skarsgård did not want Luthen’s motivation as a rebel to be revenge. So as Skarsgård explained itself in the behind -the -scenes feature “Season 2 devolved: Farewell,” Gilroy had Epiphany: “He is revenge (Kleya).”

In further backs during “Make It Stop,” we see how Luthen Kleya learned to be a rebel. Kleya has sworn to destroy the empire and Luthen helps her because she is owed more than she can have been paid. But though Luthen picked up Kleya, Dula has steadily said across interviews she is she it is not see their bond as a father and daughter.

Talking to Hollywood reporterDulas acknowledged comparisons between the story line of Flashback Luthen and Kleya and “The Last of Us.” However, she also finds the story “Andor” “much darker.” The relationship of Joel (Pedro Pascal) and Ellie (Bella Ramsey), for all his complications, is one of the ultimate love. With Luthen and Kleya, it’s not so simple. In “Devolved Andor Season 2,” Dulau elaborated:

“It is not a father-dye relationship. For him to become that, he would mean that Kleya forgives (Luthen) because she (helped kill her family). There are parts of Kleya who really hate this man.”

Note the Duls say part of Kleya Hate Luthen. There are also parts of it that love it, but love could never be pure as a parent and child should be. Luthen probably could never look at Kleya without feeling guilt. Their last scene together underlines the contradictions. Kleya kills Luthen jailed to calm him down, showing loyalty to her revenge above all else, but she does so with a broken heart and a last kiss on his forehead.

According to dules (through The Hollywood Reporter), one film with which Gilroy drew The Luthen & Young Kleya Flashbacks was “Paper Moon” 1973 Peter Bogdanovich. Artist Con Moze Pray and his daughter (perhaps) Addie Loggins (father and daughter of real life Ryan and Tatum O’Neal) drive across Kansas together and pull scams along the way. As with the comparison of “The Last of Us”, Dules believe that Bond Luthen and Kleya are much darker than Moze and Addie’s.

One comparison hi us find closer coming The anime horror legend “Monster” (based on manga by Naoki Urasawa). In Chapter 9 “Monster”, our hero Dr. Kenzo Tenma takes firearms lessons from Hugo Bernhardt, retired mercenary. Bernhardt has a quiet young girl living with him – but she is not his daughter. During surgery in Myanmar, she killed the girl’s mother, then brought her home as she would have someone to be raised. Although Bernhardt admits that the girl will probably hate her for the rest of her life, at the end of the episode they can at least enjoy a warm meal together.

Another manga/anime that makes such a relationship not a side plot but the whole story is “Vinland Saga,” the historical epic of the Viking age by Makoto Yukimura. The leader of “Vinland Saga” is a crowd, a teenage warrior fighting in a Scandinavian band led by the Askeladd Devious. The father of Cruffinn himself, Thors, was murdered by Askeladd. A crowd serves askeladd not because of loyalty, but hatred; He wants to win a very duel with his father’s murderer. Blinded by his fury, a crowd only many later realize that during all the childhood years he spent trying to avenge his father, Askeladd were his father. But that doesn’t mean a crowd could completely forgive and forget, the same way Kleya couldn’t for Luthen.

“Star Wars” is about lot Of things, but the main nine films have become a family saga back to -active, starting with Darth Vader’s disclosure that Luke Skywalker’s father is “The Empire Strikes Back.” In “Return of the Jedi,” Luke’s arc is entirely concerned with the conflict between the father who idols also Be someone who is so hurt and intimidated – and can reconcile that by drawing Vader back to the light.

“Andor” may avoid many “Star Wars” stereotypes (including the clear split between light and dark) but his examination of a complex parent relationship is more than true to the series’ traditions.

“Andor” streams on Disney+.