Diego Luna Thanks ‘Star Wars’ Fans at D23 and Says ‘Andor’ Is a “Complex Show”
Diego Luna recently appeared on Jimmy Kimmel Live to promote Andor, speaking about the show and what it was like to attend the D23 Expo.
During a lighthearted interview with Kimmel, Diego made a point to express his gratitude to Star Wars fans at D23 and how special they made him feel while promoting Andor.
It’s amazing, the energy over there, it’s seven thousand people in a room. Super fans, they make you believe like everything you do is worth an applause, you know? Basically, you come out, and I have to send a message, you know, because it’s a beautiful thing, the amount of love around Star Wars, you know, you come out and everyone cares about your show. It’s so weird!
I’ve spent my whole life trying to get people’s attention and at the end say “Oh! By the way, there’s a show you can watch where I’m in”, you know, and now it’s the opposite. It’s pure expectation, seven thousand people going “we wanna like it”, and you go holy crap.
I mean, I’ve been doing it for four years and a half, but I’m not sure you’re going to like it. I mean, I like it! But then you go out of that place and realize no one else gives a…
To his credit, Kimmel replied that some people out of there do still care, and they joked about how different Diego was treated in real life compared to an adoring audience of Star Wars fans. The actor ended the topic by joking “I wanna live there!”
When Kimmel asked if Andor was a show for adults and not for kids, Luna replied that it was a “complex show”:
I would say it’s a complex show, because my son loves it, my daughter loves it, so I… think it’s about people that want complexity… and there’s so many layers in the show sometimes… it brings the adventure and action that you want to see in Star Wars, but also it becomes very dark and political.
It’s a spies thriller. It gets very intimate into the life of these people. We have 12 episodes in this first chunk.
Speaking about Andor‘s three-episode premiere, Diego explained the decision to release so many episodes at once:
It’s a like a film, the whole thing, it’ll be like an hour and… it’ll be like a film basically, a good chunk. But also, it’s important for us that you get to see three episodes and understand what we’re aiming for.
It’s a lot of new characters, new planets, and again, it’s about spies, so there’s a lot of information and complexity. It’s cool.
In a hilarious story, Diego also revealed that, growing up, he thought R2-D2 was called “Little Arthur” (Arturito):
You know how R2-D2 is called in Mexico? … We call it “Arturito” because it sounds like that. For my whole life, I would say the first 15 years of my life, I thought it was Little Arthur.
Kimmel also brought up that Luna’s son Geronimo leaked some spoilers from Rogue One back before the film was released, so Diego set the record straight:
A lot of things, yeah, he took a picture of me, you know, when we were facetiming, and the costumes, and you know, wanted to send it to his friends. Uh, he used it as a pick-up line in the holiday with other girls, but now he’s so mature. Much more than me, definitely. He’s 14.
When Kimmel asks if he can trust Geronimo now, Diego jokes and reassures that he’s much more serious about spoilers nowadays. It doesn’t sound like he’d ever leak Andor spoilers now. Diego revealed that he often gets lectured not to spoil anything and told to “talk about the show and not about your life”.
Perhaps it’s things like that that make him wish he was back at D23.
Josh is a huge Star Wars fan, who has spent far too much time wondering if any Star Wars character could defeat Thanos with all the Infinity Stones.
