Andor's second season is here, which means the cast and creators are on the promotional tour to push the show. As they're in and out of various interviews, my new favorite one popped up on my YouTube feed over the weekend.
Sitting down with BuzzFeed Celeb, five of Andor's cast members were asked to take a Star Wars trivia quiz from Buzzfeed. It was ten questions from the movies and TV shows. Broken into two groups, Diego Luna, Adria Arjona, and Genevieve O’Reilly were on one team, and Denise Gough and Kyle Soller were on the other. Though to clarify, they were not playing against each other, which was probably for the best, as Kyle was his own worst enemy.
What transpired had me cackling over my coffee this morning. While Denise and Kyle might play the villains and Star Wars' weirdest new fascist couple of Dedra Meero and Syril Karn, the duo are hilarious together. They really enable and play off their scene partner well, for better or worse, when Star Wars trivia questions are at stake.
One of the best moments is when the producer Lindsey, a wonderful chaos person whose sole purpose of being there is the stress them out, asks Kyle why he chose the answer he did. His face, which is in the thumbnail of the YouTube video, fell as the panic set in. Poor Kyle whimpered, "You need my reason? It was impulsive!"
"I don't like you, Lindsey" Denise jokingly scowled later in the video.
What was fun about the other group was how much more calm but still just as hilarious they were. Diego was panicked when the one Rogue One question popped up, scared he would miss it. However, it was Diego and Adria's willingness to follow whatever Genevieve picked, even if she was flat-out wrong, was wonderful.
The entire interview is a lovely time and a great way to spend 10 minutes of your day, if only to see Kyle Soller have a slow mental breakdown.
Andor Season 2 is now streaming on Disney+.