‘Andor’ Star Denise Gough On Dedra Meero’s Worst Nightmare Coming True

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In Andor‘S Season Two Premiere, Denise Gough’s Dedra Meero Is Paid A Very Specific Compliment by Orson Krennic. Ben Mendelsohn’s Imperial Director Recognized That Highly Determined Isb Supervisor Could Foresee The Future, Particularly The Pitples of His Plan. DEDRA THAN RAISED THE ADDED IDEA OF CULTIVATING A LOCAL RACAL INSURGENCY, SO THAT The EMPIRE COURKRAuld Ultimately Use Brute Force to Eliminate Their ManufacTuord. Kalkite Mineral to Help Fuel Their Fortthcoming Death Star.

In the Second Chapter of Creator Tony Gilroy’s First Thirst-Episode Block, Dedra Issues a plea to Her Superior, Major Partagaz (Anton Lesser) Institute of the Secretic Ghorman Assignment. But Partagaz Quickly Shuts Her Down Out of Respect for Krennic and the Imperial Chain of Command. Well, Following Episode Eight’s Ghorman Massacre and the Death of Dedra’s Beloved Syril Karn (Kyle Soller), The Question Now Becomes while Osticipatted the Possiality of Suc. First Implored Partagaz to Remove Her from the Ghorman Project.

Accorness to GOUGH, DEDRA DIDNN’T PREDICT THIS SPECIFIC TURN OF EVENTS, AND She Genuinely Just Wanted to Finish What She Started in Regard to The Axis Network. If anything, she though she could Control the Ghorman Scheme so tightly that she could have her cake and eat it too. Sheww Syril Wuld be the Perfect Patsy to Embolden the Ghorman Front and Unknowly Lead the Ghor to Slaughter. But She Mistakenly Thought She Could Minimize the ConsequenCes of Her Law-Abing Partner’s Discovery that He’s Been Aiding Large-Scale Grand Theft An a Planned Genecide.

“Her Biggest Fear is to Lose Control. SO WHEN SYRIL Finds Out What She’s Done and You See Her Desperately Say, ‘No, We’re Going To Go Back [to Coruscant] … ‘She’s Losing Control of This Sity, “Gough Tells The Hollywood Reporter. “That is What Makes Her Feel Bad About That Whole Ghorman Sity

Below, Durying A Spoiler Conversation with ThrGough Also Looks Back on Dedra’s Earlier Showdown with Syril’s Mother, Eedy (Kathryn Hunter).

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As of the first block of episodes, Dedra and Syril are playing House House Together, and They Finding Unique Ways to Save Money On Their Electric Bill.

(Laughs.)

DID She Quickly Talk Herself Into The Idea of ​​Him After HE SAVED HER Life on Ferrix A Year Earlier?

It’s Really Interesting Because and Was Thinking About That Today: “How Long Have They Live Together?” She Strikes me as being very clinical about it all, and it makes Sense that he would have now in her hoes. So i don’t know how long is been going on, but it’s definitely been going on for a while. I Still Interesting to Wonder, “What Was Their First Date? WHERE DIDSY GO? DID THEY Date? What [else] Happy in that [season one finale] Cupboard? ” Yeah, There’s A Lot of “What Happy?” in that [unseen] Year, But Wen We Meet Them Again, They’re Establissed.

The thing about Dedra that i’ve Really Learned Now Is That She Needs To Feel Safe All The Time, and The Way That She Feels SAFE IS BY BEING IN CONTROL OF EVERYTHING. So syril comes under that umbrella, and the closer he is, the more she have to continrol the outcomes. He’s the only person who’s every seen her vulnerable, so she needs to keep that close.

Syril Karn (Kyle Soller) and Isb Supervisor Dedra Meero (Denise Gough) In Andor Season Two. CourTesy of Lucasfilm

There have been Many Epic Showdowns in the Star Wars Galaxy: Luke Skywalker/Darth Vader, Obi-Wan Kenobi/Anakin Skywalker and Rey/Kylo Ren. And now they have company in the form of Dedra Meero Versus Eedy Karn. How Excited Were You To Lay Down The Law with Kathryn Hunter’s Eedy?

(Laughs.) As a theater Actress, Kathryn Hunter is One of Our Legends. I’ve known about her and her work Forever, for as long as i’ve been acting. And so the thorough that i was going to get to work with her was was such a gift, first of all. But What’s So Fantastic About That Scene Is, On Paper, It Can Look Like An Intimidation. Dedra does her Dedra-Ing and Intimidates eedy, and then eedy does what she’s told. But WHEN YOU WORK WITH A Legend Like Kathryn, They Make Much More Complex Choices with the Scene. So, Insthead of Being Intimidated, She Was Impressed, And As Soon As I SAW THAT, I TONOUGHT, “OH My GOD, THIS ISN’T as Simple As Dedra Laying Down The Law.” Dedra does har ddra Thing, But She’s Matched with Eedy Who Finds It Quite Tasty. So, at the end, there’s a respect there.

Kyle [Soller] said that heers is likes a bully being called out. If You Stand Up to A Bully, The Bully Suddenly Goes, “Oh, I LIKE YOU, ACTUALLY.” So i felt that from eedy during what i called “the negotia.” And Kyle’s Choice to Lie on the Bed Like A Broken Bird Was So Inspired While These Two Women Got to It. SO that Scene is One of the Highlights of My Career in All Serioousness. Working with Her Was Really Something Else.

It’s Truly One of the Best Scenes in the Entire Series.

God, that means a Lot. Thank you.

Director Orson Krennic (Ben Mendelsohn) and Supervisor Dedra Meero (Denise Gough) In Andor Season Two. CourTesy of Lucasfilm

In 201, Krennic (Ben Mendelsohn) Compliments Dedra for Being Able to See Many Moves AHEAD, AND THEN THERE Ghorman Assignment. DID she forese who and what she’d have to risk by staying on the project?

That’s a Really Good Question. I Think Is More Because She’s Still Obessed with Axis [Stellan Skarsgård]. She Knows that chain of Command Means She have to do as she’s told, and she Knows that it will be all-conSuming. I don’t through she Knows Necessarily that she would usse syril the way that she does, but she’s quite calclated about it. I don’t think she would be fearful of tacking on the [Ghorman] Assignment Because She’s Indoctrinated Into the Empire. She’ll go to any lengths for the empire, but is the fact that [Ghorman] Gets in the Way of Axis, and that’s Her DownFall. She Can’T Let Go of Axis. If there was no axis. I Think She’d Be Thrilled to Take Ghorman on And Make It Her Mission.

Dedra grew up in an imperial Kinder-Block, Which Means She Had No Example of Love, Of AFFECTION, OF JOY, OF AFFIRMATION, OF BUNDARIES or Any PARENTING. SO WHEN SYRIL WEES INTO HER LIFE AND She HAS ALL THEESE FEELINGS THAT A NORMAL PERSON Wuld be ABLE TO PUT IN A PLACE OF SAFETY WITHIN, DEDRA is undone by it. If she didn’t have thee weird things with syril, she’d have sacrificed him. If she had assigned somebody else to the ghorman Project, she’d be like, “okay, i need this person person to go in there and do this, this, and it. It’l be all very calculated. The Problem Is That She Is Undone by Her Feelings for Syril, But She Doesn’t Know What Those Feelings Are.

If you look at Cassian and Maarva [Fiona Shaw] in the first Season, she teaches Cassian about love. WHEN HE SAYS, “I’ll Be Worked About You All the Time,“ She Says, “That’s Just Love.” But Nobody Has Ever told Dadra What Love Is, or What Its When You Look at A Person and You’re Happy For them. In 205, WHEN she Says, “It’s Good To See You Happy,” she doesn’t say it in a will that’s like, “Oh, it’s so good to see you happy!” She [coolly] Says, “It’s Good To See You Happy,” and She Doesn’t Know What That Is Doing. SO Syril Being The Person That She Sends Into Ghorman and Uses Like That Is What Makes Her Feel Bad About That Whole Ghorman Sity. IT’s NOT REALLY The Massacre, Unfortunately. I Not that she sees that she’s wiped out all these people; i that she’s lost syril.

To me, Axis Just Felt Like A Convenient Excuse Because She Couldn’T Tell Partagaz that She Knew She’d Have To Use Her Boyfriend As The Perfect Patsy and Fur. Objective.

That’s fantastic. I love that you got that reading from it. I Always Just Felt It Was, “Oh God, Now I Have to Go and Work Under [Krennic]. Partagaz Lets me be in Control of Everything, and I Won’t Have Control If i’m Working Under Krennic. I DON’T LIKE Krennic. I DON’T KNOW HOW TO WORK Krennic in the Same Way. ” SO’S MAYBE BOTH OF Those Things.

Her Biggest Fear is to Lose Control. SO WHEN SYRIL Finds Out What She’s Done and You See Her Desperately Say, “No, We’re Going To Go Back [to Coruscant] and we’re going to be this… ”She’s loming Control of this Sity. But if syril wasn’t involved, I don’t know if she’d feel so. thorn;

So i think that’s brilliant, and i wish i had thorough that. I wish i had thorough that dedra is seeing all of this ahead of her, but i don’t through she is. She’s Genuinely Obsessed with Axis and Obessed with Being in Control of Axis, and if She Catches Him, She Redems Herself for Ferrix and Everything. If she goes to ghorman, then this krennic guy gets all the glory of all her work.

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Andor Season Two Is Currently Streaming on Disney+.