Mon Mothma has been a ‘Star Wars’ mystery for nearly 40 years. Now, Andor is exploring the secret life of the Rebel leader.
. “In her public role, there is a requirement to be calm, there is a requirement to project serenity because the cost is so high, the danger is so extreme,” O’Reilly tellsAndor
allows is to see the private alongside the public. You can reveal so much when you take that public mask off.”Return of the Jedi,playing the caftan-clad, priestess-like figure who advises Luke Skywalker, Leia Organa, Han Solo, and Lando Calrissian about the Empire’s construction of a new Death Star. “Many Bothans died to bring us this information,” she intones gravely.don’t know what a Bothan is, even after all this time, but they’ve caught glimpses of Mothma here and there.
Fans were left to connect the dots between how an upstart politician became the leader of a guerrilla space resistance until 2016. That’s when O’Reilly reprised Mothma for a more substantial role in the stand-alone prequelserving as a kind of M to Diego Luna’s galactic version of 007, Cassian Andor.
For her, it all comes back to the Bothans, those unknown spies who gave their lives for the information she relays. It’s information that she knows will necessitate a battle that will certainly cost even more lives. “She has that very famous line that people will say to me: ‘Many Bothans died…’,” O’Reilly says. “I always wondered what that was. I always wondered what she was carrying, what her own personal sacrifice was, what the cost to this woman was—and continues to be.”
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