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‘Andor' Emmy snubs were ‘really painful,' says creator Tony Gilroy
For fans of the Star Wars series Andor, few Emmys snubs stood out more on nominations morning than the missing nods for lead Diego Luna in the title role and season-standout Genevieve O'Reilly as Mon Mothma in the supporting race. Creator Tony Gilroy was among those sorely disappointed. More from Gold Derby 'Landman' Season 2: Everything to know about Billy Bob Thornton series as teaser trailer, return date revealed Toronto Film Festival Oct. 7 documentary 'censorship' drama, explained Despite the show's award success in its second and final second — including nominations for Best Drama Series, Writing, Directing, and Guest Actor for Forest Whitaker — the accolades failed to highlight all of the stellar work that Gilroy saw on the show. In a candid conversation with Gold Derby, Gilroy reflects on his awards history (including running the entire film circuit with Michael Clayton in 2007-08), what nominations mean to him, and whether Andor was as political as some online trolls complained. Gold Derby: You've been through the awards circuit with Season 1 and, before that, with . What are your feelings about awards in general? Tony Gilroy: I grew up watching [awards shows]. They seemed really important when I wasn't involved in the movie business. I watched a couple people early in my career who I thought were bending their careers in a really warp-y way to play to it and making non-creative decisions to chase it. So, like any rational person, I was thinking, "Judging art and competing art and subjective awards?" and all the cynical things that go with it. When we went through it with Clayton, one of the really cool things about it was because we took the full ride. It was the year of the strike, and we were trying to shut down the Academy Awards that year. And we did shut down the Golden Globes. Very complicated, very heady year, and it was a great class of people to be with. I felt like when it was all over, I wasn't unhappy with what happened at all. And I felt like it gave me a really legitimate place to have an honest opinion about it for the rest of my life. For all of 's great success with this year's nomination, the show also had two of the most notable snubs, in Diego Luna and Genevieve O'Reilly. How do oversights like that feel from inside a show? It's really painful. Genevieve O'Reilly, of the 24 episodes, she must be in 20 of them. She gives a five-year performance that's complicated, nuanced, and breathtaking. It's a lifetime achievement. I'm sure when you're looking [at the nomination, you think], "When are you going to get a part like that again? When are you going to get an opportunity like that again? When are you going to ever do that kind of work again?" Especially, if you've been a working actor, but always on the margins, always down that list. And here's this incredible opportunity. And really, I would trade away a lot of other things to have her there. Diego, the same thing, but I worry less about him. It's about what [awards] can do for you and the utility of it. There are people where it will really change things for them, and they've done the best work they may ever do in their lifetime, and they're going, "Why didn't it happen?"... It really hurts, but I said it before: I do think the performances and the work that people did on the show is going to have a very long, a very long life. I don't think it has an expiration date on it that is anytime soon. A particularly toxic portion of the online discourse around Season 2 was driven by people who thought the series had politicized . What makes a piece of art political, in your eyes? I've been corralled into identifying and articulating what my political worldview might be over the past six months. And in the beginning, I was trying to evade and deflect to try to stay as anonymous as possible along the way. As it became increasingly difficult, over hundreds of conversations, I found myself bringing forward what I would identify as my own political beliefs, which — I really believe — are more moral than left and right or up and down. The things that we're dealing with in the show can be viewed in an absolutely moral sense, rather than a political one. I find that the elevation of cruelty, the diminishment of grace. Fascism and authoritarianism, as it is in the show, inevitably strips away freedom or freedom, but it also strips away decency and the qualities of humanity that I hold valuable. It's interesting. As much as everybody [in Andor] is coalescing around the rebellion and the revolution, you don't have anybody ever really articulating what their version of the post-revolutionary world should look like. There are people that disagree, but we never get into their ideologies. We're not talking about tax theory here, and I'm not talking about free market economy or supply-side. My feeling is, in the current environment, we've moved past the political into the moral. ... When you move past politics into morality, something is really epically, globally wrong. In addition to being nominated for Best Series, you also have a nod for Original Music and Lyrics alongside Nicholas Britell for "We Are the Ghor." Yes! I want this. I want this Emmy really badly. You could say that I'm smiling, but yeah, I want this one. You were a musician, right? I played music really seriously for quite a few years, but it didn't work out for me. I made a very brave career shift. When Nick and I started writing, we listened to a lot of national anthems from around the world. There's some great ones, and there's some really sh-tty ones. I think [anthem writing] is a good shingle we could open up. If people want to trade up and get a new anthem, it could be a good side hustle. Best of Gold Derby 'Australian Survivor vs. The World' premiere date and cast photos: 'King' George Mladenov, Cirie Fields, Parvati Shallow … 'Five new life forms from distant planets': Everything to know about 'Alien: Earth' as new trailer drops Everything to know about 'The Pitt' Season 2, including the departure of Tracy Ifeachor's Dr. Collins Click here to read the full article. Solve the daily Crossword
Geek Girl Authority
07-07-2025
- Entertainment
- Geek Girl Authority
On Location: Valencia's City of Arts and Sciences on ANDOR: A STAR WARS STORY Season 2
Welcome to On Location , a weekly feature spotlighting landmarks and establishments seen on screen that viewers can visit IRL. Whether you're seeking a fun selfie, breathtaking vistas, or maybe a show-accurate treat, follow along for some bucket list destinations. RELATED: Check in with On Location's visit to the Continental Hotel New York from the World of John Wick An Andor Filming Location If you believed (as I did) that all Star Wars films and series are mostly filmed in a galaxy far, far away, or on a Hollywood backlot, you'd be forgiven. After all, the franchise's world-building grounds itself in spectacularly alien-looking landscapes and skylines. And Lucasfilm's ILM literally has the word 'magic' in its name. However, in the case of Andor: A Star Wars Story 's vast and impressive Coruscant Senate complex, they found that the superlative architecture of Valencia's City of Arts and Science in Spain (known to locals as Ciutat de les Arts i les Ciències ) was too perfect to pass up. Image Credit: Courtesy of Lucasfilm via The City of Arts and Sciences on Andor: A Star Wars Story Although the dome-shaped Senate Building had to be digitally inserted with the rest of the cityscape, the distinctive promenade Mon Mothma (Genevieve O'Reilly), her colleagues, and other Coruscant residents stroll along is, in reality, the South Cantilever of the Museu de les Ciències Príncipe Felipe, or Museum of the Sciences. The Cantilever terrace runs along the third floor of the Science Museum, 17 meters or over 55 feet in the air. At 220 meters long (approximately 720 feet), it provides a dramatic panoramic lookout for visitors, connecting the City of Arts and Sciences' four main buildings – the Agora covered plaza, the Museum of the Sciences, the Hemisfèric , and the Palau de les Arts Reina Sofía opera house. RELATED: The Rebellion Is Here in Andor Season 2 Special Look The City of Arts and Sciences' Museu de les Ciències opened in 2000. Architect Santiago Calatrava designed the south façade's repetitive white concrete buttresses to resemble a dinosaur's skeleton. Built with 58,000 cubic meters (over 2 million cubic feet) of concrete and 14 tons of steel, the building houses 42,000 square meters (over 450,000 square feet) over three floors, the largest surface area of any building in Spain. Various exhibitions take up 26,000 square meters (nearly 280,000 square feet) of the space. The museum's main objective is to engage visitors with interactive science exhibits. For example, the 'Chromosome Forest' on the third floor allows guests to explore and learn about the human genome using large-scale models of the 23 pairs of chromosomes. Image Credit: Disney+ The Eye of Knowledge In Andor: A Star Wars Story Season 2, the Senate Building replaces the Agora structure at one end of the promenade, but the City of Arts and Sciences's centerpiece, the Hemisfèric, remains visible at the other end. It was the first building completed in 1998. Also designed by Calatrava, it contains: an exhibition hall; a projection hall, which includes an IMAX Cinema, a planetarium, and a laserium; and the Carl Sagan Perimeter Ring event space. The building's design resembles a human eye. Its nickname is 'The Eye of Knowledge.' The ovoidal roof is over 100 meters (approximately 330 feet) long. A shutter system consisting of elongated aluminum awnings forms the 'eyelid,' which opens to reveal the 'iris' of the building, the projection hall. RELATED: Mon Mothma Takes Center Stage in Andor and It's About Time The third of the ticketed venues in the City of Arts and Sciences is the Oceanogràfic , an open-air oceanographic park. It is the largest aquarium in Europe. Designed by architect Félix Candela, the complex resembles a water lily with eight petals. Each petal is a building identified with one of the following aquatic environments: Mediterranean, Wetlands, Temperate and Tropical Seas, Oceans, Antarctic, Arctic, Islands and Red Sea, in addition to the Dolphinarium. Buying a combined ticket (starting at €49.80/approx 60USD) for the three sites is the most economical way to visit. Open from 10 am to 9 pm, it's an amazing way to spend a day AND recreate some key Coruscant moments. Water, Water, Everywhere All the water features seen around the Senate District in Andor: A Star Wars Story are real. Each building is surrounded by enormous reflecting pools of water. In total, they cover over 13,500 square meters (just under 150,000 square feet). As the land was once part of the Turia riverbed, it seems rather fitting. RELATED: 4 Places We Want to Visit in the Star Wars Universe One last seen-on- Andor filming location is located at the City of Arts and Sciences is the Umbracle. Another Calatrava design, it is a 320-meter (1000-foot) long landscaped walk enveloped by an open structure 60 meters (147 feet) wide. Free to access, the garden contains many shrubs and plant species indigenous to Valencia. These include several varieties of palms and orange trees. Inside, you'll find The Walk of Sculptures and an art gallery. Functional as well as beautiful, its ground floor is the City of Arts and Sciences' main parkade. Both seasons of Andor: A Star Wars Story are streaming on Disney+. 10 STAR WARS Characters Who Need a Novel of Their Own Diana lives in Vancouver, BC, Canada, where she invests her time and energy in teaching, writing, parenting, and indulging her love of all Trek and a myriad of other fandoms. She is a lifelong fan of smart sci-fi and fantasy media, an upstanding citizen of the United Federation of Planets, and a supporter of AFC Richmond 'til she dies. Her guilty pleasures include female-led procedurals, old-school sitcoms, and Bluey. She teaches, knits, and dreams big. You can also find her writing at The Televixen, Women at Warp, TV Fanatic, and TV Goodness.
The Guardian
18-06-2025
- Entertainment
- The Guardian
My Brilliant Career: Netflix announces adaptation of Miles Franklin's classic novel
Netflix has announced an adaptation of the Australian classic My Brilliant Career, the much-loved novel by Miles Franklin. The new show, which is now filming around South Australia, stars The Newsreader actor Philippa Northeast in the lead role as Sybylla, a headstrong young woman who finds herself torn between the safety of a traditional life and the liberation of being an unmarried writer. Sybylla goes to stay at Caddagat, the homestead of her grandmother Mrs Bossier, who will be played in the Netflix adaptation by Anna Chancellor from the BBC's Pride and Prejudice and Four Weddings and a Funeral. At Caddagat, Sybylla befriends Harry, a young, wealthy neighbour who falls in love with her; Harry will be played in the new adaptation by Slow Horses actor Christopher Chung. Andor actor Genevieve O'Reilly will play Sybylla's aunt Helen and Kate Mulvany plays Harry's aunt Gussie Beecham. What It Feels Like For a Girl actor Jake Dunn will play Frank Hawden, a jackaroo at Caddagat who makes constant advances on Sybylla. The adaptation has been developed and co-written by Liz Doran, who worked on Josh Thomas' comedy Please Like Me and the surfing drama Barons. 'It's been a privilege to work with so many incredible creatives on this reimagining of Miles Franklin's rollicking tale of a young woman's quest to determine her own life,' Doran said on Wednesday. Stella Maria Sarah Miles Franklin, for whom both the Miles Franklin and Stella literary awards are named, was only a teenager when she wrote My Brilliant Career. It was a bestseller, but Franklin was subject to 'unwelcome notoriety' due to speculation over her novel's autobiographical elements; she pulled the book from publication, stipulating it could only be reprinted after her death. Franklin died in 1954 and the novel has never been out of print since it was printed again in 1966, becoming a feminist classic. The book was also adapted into a 1979 film starring Judy Davis and Sam Neill and directed by Gillian Armstrong, and into a hit stage musical at the Melbourne Theatre Company in 2024. Minyoung Kim, Netflix's vice-president of Asia Pacific content, called My Brilliant Career 'a timeless Australian story with themes as relevant today as when it was originally published'. 'We're excited to be partnering with some of Australia's best creatives and talent to bring this story to a whole new generation on Netflix and, with its stunning locations, there's no better home for this production than South Australia,' Kim said.
Geek Tyrant
26-05-2025
- Entertainment
- Geek Tyrant
Mon Mothma Actress Genevieve O'Reilly on Building ANDOR's Quietest Tragedy with Tony Gilroy — GeekTyrant
In a galaxy ruled by empires and explosions, some of the most devastating moments come not from space battles, but from quiet, human decisions. That's exactly what Andor Season 2 delivered in one of its most gut-wrenching scenes, thanks to a powerful collaboration between actor Genevieve O'Reilly and series creator Tony Gilroy. In Episode 3 of the new season, Mon Mothma (O'Reilly), a key architect of the rebellion, faces a deeply personal crossroads. As her daughter Leida (Bronte Carmichael) prepares to enter a traditional Chandrilan marriage, Mon—haunted by her own loveless union—offers Leida a chance to walk away. The scene doesn't hinge on action or spectacle, but it hits just as hard: a mother offering her daughter freedom, only for the daughter to choose the cage. Turns out, that emotional pivot was born from a quiet, behind the scenes conversation. 'Tony and I had discussed this when he said she was getting married and I was like, 'Oh, no, she's not gonna do this to her daughter. He's great about having character conversations with actors. 'He's so deeply collaborative and curious about the actor's perspective. I remember saying to him, 'She has to give her an out. If it's that woman who was there in Rogue One and Return of the Jedi, I understand that there's a pain within her. But if it is that woman who can be a pillar, then what would she do?'' That openness allowed space for something honest and devastating to bloom. What Mon gives her daughter is not control, but a choice. And the fallout crushed her. 'And then for Leida to turn the way she did, it just broke my heart. It's deeply brutal but it was a moment for Mon to gather herself. We saw that. We saw the pain. And I'm sure there were many reasons, but there is a power dynamic shift where Mon steps in to who she is. 'You end in this huge, big [dance] piece where you understand the chaos that everyday people have to hold. And not just everyday people, but somebody who's managing to help build rebellion; what that is and what that chaos within that woman must be.' This is what Andor continues to do better than almost anything else in the Star Wars universe, turning the rebellion into something personal. Every glance, every silence, every difficult choice deepens the story. It's not just about good versus evil. It's about what you sacrifice to do what's right, and what it costs when the people you love make different choices. Source: GamesRadar+
Geek Tyrant
24-05-2025
- Entertainment
- Geek Tyrant
Watch The Cast of ANDOR Take a STAR WARS Trivia Quiz — GeekTyrant
Some of the cast member of Lucasfilm's Disney+ series Andor sat down with BuzzFeed to take a Star Wars trivia quiz. The video features Diego Luna (Cassian Andor), Genevieve O'Reilly (Mon Mothma), and Adria Arjona (Bix Caleen) on one team and Denise Gough (Dedra Meero) and Kyle Soller (Syril Karn) on the other team. As you'll see, some of these actor really don't know that much about the Star Wars franchise outside of the show they worked on. The video came with the following note: 'To celebrate Andor Season 2, we had the cast — Genevieve O'Reilly, Diego Luna, Adria Arjona, Denise Gough, and Kyle Soller — take a Star Wars trivia quiz to see how well they actually know one of the greatest franchises in the galaxy.' Enjoy the video!
