Disney introduced on Monday night that it will likely be holding a livestream Q&A for season 2 of its Star Wars drama Andor on Tuesday, Might 14, at 12 p.m. ET. The stream shall be hosted on YouTube, and can middle on sequence creator, author, and showrunner Tony Gilroy and star Diego Luna, although different visitors from the present may also be current. Right here’s the embedded livestream and the outline of the occasion:
In anticipation of the three-episode sequence finale of Andor, be part of Diego Luna and Creator & Government Producer Tony Gilroy as they take us behind-the-scenes of the present’s remaining season. Diego and Tony shall be joined by particular visitors Adria Arjona, Denise Gough, Elizabeth Dulau, Genevieve O’Reilly and Kyle Soller for stay questions and reflections throughout their Star Wars journeys. With particular appearances by a few of your favourite creators together with @HeroesReforged, @CatherineLaSalle, and @MaceAhWindu.
Two issues about this livestream really feel uncommon: First, it’s dropping proper earlier than the season and sequence finale of Andor, which works stay on Disney Plus at 9 p.m. ET on Might 14, so followers gained’t have the ability to ask questions that take the tip of the season under consideration. (Probably a measure to keep away from spoilers for individuals who haven’t watched but.) And second, Disney says the members shall be taking stay questions from viewers.
As anybody who’s ever attended a stay Q&A with considerably well-known people most likely already is aware of, these sorts of boards not often produce actually nice questions. That’s extra typically true in a stay setting, the place questioners typically simply need to maintain the eye of these well-known folks, and have a tendency to ramble or not ask questions in any respect. “That is extra a remark than a query…” and “As a content material creator myself, listed here are my ideas in your work…” are clichés that also crop up at almost each viewers Q&A I attend at movie festivals. And I’ll always remember attending a live-on-stage George Lucas interview that made time for questions on the finish. A younger man with a Chewbacca-bandolier messenger bag and no compunctions about losing everybody else’s time bought as much as brag to Lucas about what number of Moleskine notebooks stuffed with story concepts he had again residence, and ended with, “So my query is, Mr. Lucas, what can I do for you?” Lucas was… not mild in his response.
Collectively, we will do higher. The important thing to an excellent Q&A is preparation — pondering upfront about questions that matter to you, then checking to see if perhaps the members have already answered that precise query elsewhere. (E.g. “Hey, Tony Gilroy, had been you pondering of Nazi Germany once you wrote this present, or one thing more moderen?”) And it’s vital to be as particular as potential with questions — “What was the toughest a part of the present to do?” isn’t a foul one, but it surely’s broad sufficient that it may very well be utilized to any facet of the writing, casting, taking pictures, modifying, or post-production work, and won’t get a very particular reply.
So let’s pregame this interview. What, at this level, do you need to know from Tony Gilroy and Diego Luna (or another promised participant on this venture) that you simply assume they haven’t already answered? What would you most like to listen to them speak about? Personally, I’d prefer to know whether or not Gilroy ever thought of another finish to Syril Karn’s arc. Not saying there’s something unsuitable with what we noticed on display — Gilroy has known as it a “Greek and dramatic” ending — however I actually thought he was being arrange for one thing else particular.
What do you most need to ask the Andor creator and solid? (If nothing else, perhaps the remainder of us may also help discover a place the place your query has already been answered, since there’s going to be a variety of competitors to get questions by means of in the course of the livestream.)
