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Andor showrunner Tony Gilroy says he "loved" The Mandalorian, but stopped watching because he "didn’t find it helpful to know what happened after" his Star Wars show
Andor showrunner Tony Gilroy has revealed that, while he enjoyed The Mandalorian, he never actually finished watching it.
"It was very disorienting for me to step outside my five year period. If I went backwards and looked at stuff, if I went forward and looked at stuff. I started watching Mandalorian in the beginning, but then I couldn't watch anymore, because, as cool as it was, I loved it, it made me – I lost my frequency," Gilroy told The Ringer-Verse podcast back in June, in quotes that have since resurfaced. "I didn't find it helpful to know what was gonna happen after so much… I definitely siloed my period off to make it work, as a defence mechanism I suppose, as much as anything."
The Mandalorian takes place many years after Andor on the Star Wars timeline, so it makes sense that Gilroy might have found that sort of foreknowledge unhelpful while he was working on his own show.
"It's driven us crazy on the show, every time people, the clickbait, trying to draw controversy between us and the other shows," Gilroy said recently. "By the same token, it would be very wrong to come in and try to slavishly reproduce [Andor]." He added that Lucasfilm has some "really unusual" projects in the works.
I'm a Senior Entertainment Writer here at GamesRadar+, covering all things film and TV for the site's Total Film section. I previously worked on the Disney magazines team at Immediate Media, and also wrote on the CBeebies, MEGA!, and Star Wars Galaxy titles after graduating with a BA in English.
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