Your funeral speech in Andor was a huge highlight of a show surprisingly packed with anti-fascist sentiment (we all know that when you said “Fight the Empire!” you really wanted to use a different f-word there). Did you know at the time just how apt the whole show would be in the US political climate? notanauthority
I did say a different word in my speech, and the writer hoped that Disney were OK with it, so we kept the strong f-word right to the end. And then I think some executive buckled, so it became “fight the Empire”. It was filmed after the first Trump incumbency, when there was another president, so it wasn’t overtly connected to the America that is now.
When I performed that speech, I was filmed by about 200 cameras so they could make a hologram. I was alone in a huge studio, no director or crew in the room with me. There was a “God” mic – somebody spoke to me remotely saying, “We’ll do that again”. It was quite scary.
