Andor's Denise Gough calls Dedra Meero's season 2 fate 'righteous'
Disney+'s Andor knows how to stick the landing, delivering a devastating final three episodes to close out Cassian Andor's (Diego Luna) story and also reveal where each of its characters end up — including Imperial officer Dedra Meero.
Warning: This article contains some spoilers for Andor season 2
Denise Gough tells Yahoo UK that she relished the place where the Star Wars spinoff left her character, as a prisoner on Narkina 5 after being accused of being a Rebel spy. For the actor, this ending was "righteous" and one that felt apt as punishment for everything the character had done since the season 1.
"I think for me it's such a gift to the audience to see this woman in the place. That episode of Narkina in Season 1 was so profound, so beautiful, Andy Serkis's work was just extraordinary — the whole thing. [So] I think to have that, such a tiny image of Dedra at the end, in the place where we saw [Cassian have to build pieces of the Death Star].
"It's all set up in season 1 what she's gonna have to go through now in there, it's saying [that] to the audience. Her end for me was righteous, completely."
She added: "I felt devastated by Syril's end, I really did", in reference to Kyle Soller's character who was shot and killed during the Ghorman massacre after he tried to get revenge on Cassian. Soller admitted to Yahoo UK he "wasn't surprised" by his character's fate on the show.
"In a way, I wasn't surprised. I mean, Syril is so running before he can jump in a way, and this is a recipe of disaster with all of the things that he's wrestling with and all the things that he wants to achieve and be remembered for. Aligning himself to a structure like the Empire, having never gone to therapy."
Narkina 5 featured in episodes eight and nine of season 1, it is the prison where Cassian was locked up in after he was unjustly arrested while walking in a seaside town. There the character met Kino Loy (Serkis), the leader of the prisoners who keeps them in line and on schedule with their gruelling forced labour.
When the prisoners realise that they'll never be released from Narkina 5 they decide to stage a coup, and after a dramatic uprising Cassian and others imprisoned with him are able to swim to safety. One person who is not able to leave, though, is Kino Loy because he reveals he can't swim, and his fate is left unclear to fans after that.
Andor season 1 and 2 is available on Disney+.
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