New Details on K-2SO from Rogue One: A Star Wars Story

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One day before the new Rogue One: A Star Wars Story trailer hits the net, Entertainment Weekly posts their third article for the week with new revelations about the highly anticipated first Star Wars stand-alone movie. This time they focus on the reprogrammed security droid K-2SO, played by actor Alan Tudyk…

 

The next trailer for the “Star Wars” spin-off film will hit prime time tomorrow during Thursday nights NBC broadcast of the 2016 Rio Olympics. While we wait, Entertainment Weekly’s Anthony Breznican, shares some fantastic details with a new report about Rogue One.

 

The past few days, Breznican reported the significant news about the Holy Land world of Jedha and more details on the ‘Imperial’ turned ‘Rebel’ Bodhi Rook. Today, even more details have been revealed with EW’s interview with Firefly and Frozen voice actor Alan Tudyk. Check out the new details below.

 

From EW:

 

In the interview with EW, Tudyk grapples with whether to illustrate how Kaytoo interacts bluntly with the more sensitive humans around him.

“He has no filter. There was an old line, it’s not in there anymore…. I don’t think I can say it…” Tudyk presses his knuckles against his mouth, squints, is silent for a moment, then decides it’s safer not to share it.

“I can’t say what I want to say, but Kaytoo can say what he wants,” Tudyk explains. “He can say insulting things very casually if he thinks they’re true.”

 

Does he feel emotion?

Tudyk, who played the synthetic-with-spirit Sonny in 2004’s I, Robot, shakes his head.

“He’s not an overly emotional guy. He’s not like C-3PO, who’s like a f—ing neurotic mess. He’s flappable. Kaytoo is much more in the unflappable category.”

 

But he does understand right from wrong. Before being drawn into the Rebellion, Kaytoo served a different master.

“He was a security droid in the Empire and they sort of enforce whatever needs to be enforced. They are imposing. He’s 7-foot-1, and follows orders pretty well. If you’re asked to be detained, he can detain you. They stand guard, and if somebody doesn’t mind them, they’ll…” Tudyk laughs. “They’ll enforce the sh– out of [people.]

 

For all his rough edges, Kaytoo also feels fierce loyalty, Tudyk says, especially toward Diego Luna’s character, Rebel captain Cassian Andor, who cleared the droid’s databanks of Imperial programming and allowed him to break free of service to the galactic dictatorship.

 

Their friendship goes back long before the start of Rogue One.

“They’ve been around. They’ve been together for a while, a couple years,” Tudyk says. “He wants what Cassian wants. He loves Cassian, because he freed him. It’s also more paternal in that [Cassian] gave him life and took away the bonds of his programming.”

 

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The actor described a scene from the film in which Kaytoo encounters other droids of his model, still serving the Empire without question, without recourse, without much hope. It’s a bittersweet moment for a droid who doesn’t feel that sort of thing.

“You do meet other Kaytoos and they don’t have as much free will. We see them, and … Yeah, that’s not him,” Tudyk says.

 

We haven’t yet heard Kaytoo speak, but Tudyk told EW how he came up with the voice.

“I have an English accent,” says the actor, who was born and raised in Texas. “I feel like a lot of the Imperial characters are English, and the Rebels tended to be like Han Solo, you think of the Americans. And because he was a droid, it made sense that it would be more of a proper accent.”

 

You might consider Cassian and Kaytoo’s relationship to be similar to Solo’s and his Wookiee co-pilot, especially since Rogue One director Gareth Edwards previously described Kaytoo as “a little bit like Chewbacca’s personality in a droid’s body.”

 

Tudyk balks at this.

“Now, how the hell is that true?” he says, twisting his face.

 

Well, Chewie is also blunt, big, intimidating, and not afraid to roar his mind.

 

Tudyk isn’t sold on the comparison, since Kaytoo is such a stoic.

“I see Chewbacca as very emotional,” he says. “But I don’t speak Wookiee.”

 

 

For the full article with even more revelations make sure to go to EW.

 

 

May the Force be with you!

 

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14 thoughts on “New Details on K-2SO from Rogue One: A Star Wars Story

  • August 10, 2016 at 11:17 pm
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    “He’s not an overly emotional guy. He’s not like C-3PO, who’s like a
    f—ing neurotic mess. He’s flappable. Kaytoo is much more in the
    unflappable category.” and SLAYED

  • August 10, 2016 at 11:25 pm
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    Calling it now… Kaytoo is the only member of the team that survives.

    Also Cassian and Kaytoo prequel spinoff.

    • August 10, 2016 at 11:32 pm
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      I’m already sold on the idea.

    • August 11, 2016 at 12:08 am
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      1. Maybe
      2. Possibly
      3. No chance.

    • August 11, 2016 at 12:18 am
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      Being loyal, I’m going to (based on the great big nothing we know about the film right now) say he goes down with Cassian. As far as meatbag, it doesn’t read to me like he’s just a racist (speciesist?) jerkoff like HK, so I’ll vote ‘no’. And if you’re talking about a film spinoff? Gotta agree with UD down there – really can’t see LFL jumping on spinoffs based on spinoffs at this juncture. A comic or novel though? Sure, absolutely.

  • August 10, 2016 at 11:33 pm
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    That droid is going to steal the show, wait and see

    • August 11, 2016 at 12:19 am
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      Find I’m rapidly warming to the idea of this character, yeah.

      • August 11, 2016 at 12:37 am
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        I loved that little shot of him just dropping the stuff Jyn asked him to carry that we saw during the Celebration panel.

      • August 11, 2016 at 3:38 am
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        He said something positive. OMG.

  • August 11, 2016 at 12:55 am
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    I’m getting very attached to this “bolt-bag”

  • August 11, 2016 at 1:36 am
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    he’s just got to say meat-bag….

  • August 11, 2016 at 5:27 am
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    Looks like the robot from Jaba’s palace.

  • August 11, 2016 at 10:51 pm
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    K-2 stronly reminds me of HK-47

  • August 12, 2016 at 12:04 am
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    It sounds like one of his favorite mean lines was cut out in the rewrites: “He has no filter. There was an old line, it’s not in there anymore…. I don’t think I can say it…” Probably not the tone Disney were looking for.

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