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09-05-2025
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How Andor Quietly Built a Very Cool Connection Between a Hotel Bellhop and Rogue One's Jyn Erso
The seed for a famous Star Wars slogan was quietly planted, by the most unassuming of characters, in Episode 8 of Andor Season 2. The five-word phrase would go on to be recited by both Cassian Andor (played by Diego Luna) and Jyn Erso (Felicity Jones) in Andor's 2016 'sequel movie' Rogue One: A Star Wars Story, and it also was reverse-engineered to lay the foundation for the very first Star Wars film's post-release subhed, A New Hope. More from TVLine Andor Reveals Why Bix Isn't in Rogue One - and Adria Arjona Says It Was One of Her 'Scariest Days on Set, Ever' Andor Star Unpacks Syril's Episode 8 Brawl With [Spoiler], Says Ending Was Filmed 'A Couple Different Ways' Andor: Could Syril Handle the Dark Truth About Ghorman? Kyle Soller Hints at Tipping Point Ahead In Andor Episode 8, with a quiet protest-turned-massacre unfolding in the Ghorman memorial plaza, Cassian alerts the hotel bellhop he met in Episode 5 that he is leaving and probably won't be back. Learning that the rebellion-sympathetic bellhop, named Thela and played by Lupin's Stefan Crepon, craftily never checked in 'Varian Skye' to begin with, Cassian tells the young man, 'I hope things work out for you.' Thela responds, 'Rebellions are built on hope.' That mantra clearly stuck with Cassian, because he parroted it early on in Rogue One, as he and Jyn arrived on Imperial-occupied Jedha to somehow score face time with rebel extremist Saw Gerrera. 'We'll give them your name and hope that gets us a meeting with Saw,' Cassian said. 'Hope?' asked Jyn. 'Yeah. Rebellions are built on hope,' Cassian replied. Later on in Rogue One, Jyn would argue to Mon Mothma (Genevieve O'Reilly) and other leaders that they needed to deploy their 'best troops, the Rebel fleet if you have to,' to Scariff, as a vital step in neutering the Empire's new super weapon. 'You need to capture the Death Star plans if there's any hope of destroying it,' Jyn asserted. 'You're asking us to invade an Imperial installation based on nothing but hope?' asked Senator Pamlo (Sharon Duncan-Brewster). 'Rebellions are built on hope,' Jyn replied, using the same words said years earlier by a mild-mannered bellhop. Want scoop on , or for any other TV show? Shoot an email to , and your question may be answered via Matt's Inside Line! Best of TVLine Yellowjackets Mysteries: An Up-to-Date List of the Series' Biggest Questions (and Answers?) The Emmys' Most Memorable Moments: Laughter, Tears, Historical Wins, 'The Big One' and More 'Missing' Shows, Found! The Latest on Severance, Holey Moley, Poker Face, YOU, Primo, Transplant and 25+ Others
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17-04-2025
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Doctor Who Boss Cheers His Tearful Time Lord: ‘Fans Get Up in Arms,' But ‘It's a Princely Performance'
In the latest Doctor Who season opener (pictured below, on the left), Ncuti Gatwa's Fifteen spilt a tear whilst processing the sudden death, at the hands of their robot overlords, of Sasha, a Belindachandra-1 resident he had grown quite close to in his six months on the planet. It was far from the first time that this Doctor has been brought to a single, powerful tear (or more) — sometimes of the happy kind, but more often sad — in his 11 appearances thus far, dating back to December 2023's 'The Giggle' special (fronted by Gatwa's predecessor, David Tennant). And while some fans have speculated that the recurring waterworks are perhaps a clue that this especially emotional Time Lord is 'broken' in a way akin to Peter Capaldi's Twelve, current showrunner Russel T Davies is here to clear the air. More from TVLine Daredevil: Born Again: Who Returned for the Finale? Who Didn't Survive? And How Did It Set Up Season 2? Andor Star Cheers Season 2's 'All-Out Weird' Dedra/Syril Connection: 'Not Your Average Rom-Com!' Jean Marsh, Upstairs, Downstairs Star and Doctor Who Vet, Dead at 90 'I mean, I remember the first time [Ncuti] did it, which is in [the 2024 Christmas special] The Church on Ruby Road,' Davies shared with TVLine. 'He thought Ruby (played by Millie Gibson) had vanished, been erased from time and space, which was astonishing, and he turned around in the studio and gave us that performance, which was absolutely spellbinding.' Davies thus waves off the suggestion that the tears are scripted, as some clue to something amiss with this regeneration. 'You don't tell an actor whether to cry, not to cry, not an actor of that stature. Absolutely not,' he scoffs. 'It's like, you wouldn't tell anyone to laugh or not to laugh! It's beautiful thing he does, and it's a completely new thing for the Doctor, that opens doorways into whole new experiences.' Davies says that his more emotional available Time Lord is but one of a multitude of ways one Doctor can vary from another, and how the long-running sci-fi series itself can be freshened up. 'Diversity is many things, and sometimes it's putting emotions on screen you haven't seen before, or that the Doctor has withheld himself from,' the showrunner posits. 'But it does make me laugh…. I know sometimes fans get up in arms about and they complain about it,' he notes. 'They're the same fans who say, 'Why don't you do something new with the program?' and you're like, hello. 'It's literally a princely performance,' he avows of Gatwa's take on Fifteen. 'I'm just here to watch and thank the lucky stars that I get to share in a princely performance like that. What an actor. Amazing.'Best of TVLine Weirdest TV Crossovers: Always Sunny Meets Abbott, Family Guy vs. Simpsons, Nine-Nine Recruits New Girl and More ER Turns 30: See the Original County General Crew, Then and Now The Best Streaming Services in 2024: Disney+, Hulu, Max and More
