The Andor actors discuss events of episodes 7, 8, & 9 (major spoilers)…

Kyle Soller, Denise Gough, & Ben Mendelsohn - 3+ minute Yahoo video: www.youtube.com/watch?v=s77Bj_ctPi8
Kyle Soller, Denise Gough, & Ben Mendelsohn - 2 minute MovieZine video: www.youtube.com/watch?v=EVk9v3HgHLI
Kyle Soller, Denise Gough, & Ben Mendelsohn - 4+ minute eCartelera video: www.youtube.com/watch?v=xJPy_iTt_MY
Kyle Soller & Denise Gough - 6 minute Brandon Davis video: www.youtube.com/watch?v=UhUFJJ86os0
Kyle Soller - EW article & interview
Kyle Soller - Hollywood Reporter article & interview
Kyle Soller - Collider article & interview
Kyle Soller - Variety article & interview
Adria Arjona - 2 minute TVLine video: www.youtube.com/watch?v=eSCH5TWJGeo
Adria Arjona - SuperHeroHype article & interview
Adria Arjona - TVLine article & interview
Diego Luna - Tech Radar article & interview
Diego Luna - EW article & interview
Genevieve O’Reilly on Mon Mothma’s pivotal ‘Andor’ speech: LA Times article & interview
Genevieve O’Reilly (and the Gilroys) on Mon Mothma’s pivotal ‘Andor’ speech: EW article & interview
Genevieve O’Reilly on Mon Mothma’s pivotal ‘Andor’ speech: Vanity Fair article & interview
Genevieve O’Reilly on Mon Mothma’s pivotal ‘Andor’ speech: StarWars.com article & interview
Genevieve O’Reilly - 30 second clip on political genesis in Star Wars: x.com/TIFF_NET/status/1917564613350285405

Tony Gilroy on the Genocide speech - Hollywood Reporter article & interview
Tony Gilroy explains how the Force just awakened - Mashable article & interview
Tony Gilroy on breaking Rebels canon - ComicBook.com article & interview
‘Andor S2 Q&A - Dan Gilroy - Episodes 7-9’ - 61 minute Backstory Magazine video: www.youtube.com/watch?v=KeXed1Kozwg

a couple of edit / montage videos from Episodes 8 + 9…

‘Andor: The Ghorman Massacre’ - 5 minute montage edit video from SWFT: www.youtube.com/watch?v=-PGzPX6YeE8

‘Andor | Mon Mothma’s Speech’ - 2 minute montage edit video from Gamerstrix: www.youtube.com/watch?v=BK2qQ5YJ_H8

^ NME article: www.nme.com/news/tv/andor-has-just-released-one-of-the-highest-rated-tv-episodes-of-all-time-3861196

& https://thedirect.com/article/andor-season-2-breaks-historic-star-wars-record (beating The Mandalorian IMDB ratings - and ‘places it in the top 10 highest rated television episodes of all time, in among Game Of Thrones’ The Rains Of Castamere, Succession’s Connor’s Wedding and Breaking Bad’s Ozymandias.’)

Andor creator reveals scrapped K-2SO ‘horror movie’ episode

Tony Gilroy explains the ditched origin story and why it was scrapped.

https://ew.com/andor-creator-reveals-scrapped-k2so-horror-movie-episode-11728167

“Dan Gilroy wrote an amazing, entirely self-contained episode that was episode 209,” Gilroy reveals, referring to his brother and Andor writer. “It was an amazing episode that was like a horror movie.”

So what exactly happened in this scrapped K-2SO horror movie episode that was originally slated to be episode 9 of season 2? “It was the K2 story,” Gilroy explains. “They had to bring this huge ugly tanker ship to Yavin, and there was a KX unit that was trapped inside there hunting. It was sort of like a monster movie with K2 on it. It was really cool.”

As for why the entire episode never made it to the filming stage, it came down to a matter of economics. “We could not afford to do it,” sighs Gilroy. “It was made clear that it was out of the range, so we had to abandon that and consolidate things.”

and later in the article…

“We made as many concessions as we could, but it was still a huge gamble on their part to keep going and still a huge ask. So thank you, Disney, and thank you Lucasfilm. It was lot of tough conversations and a lot of anxiety, but really, in the end, they really backed our play.”

^ the full article is very much well worth a read - especially on the changing economics for the Andor series between Seasons 1 & 2.

A few insightful and absorbing videos from the Spaceman youtube channel on Andor Season 2 (so far)…

‘Andor Defends A Beautiful Character Assassination’: www.youtube.com/watch?v=pkZpupuvigE

‘Andor Season 2 Explores The Dark Side Carefully’ (episdoes 1-3): www.youtube.com/watch?v=tm3ljy2JPcw

‘Andor’s Second Chapter Massacres Its Fears’ (episodes 4-6): www.youtube.com/watch?v=AOuh3TsdV5M