Editor’s note: Andor writer Dan Gilroy won his first Emmy for the Season 2 episode titled “Welcome to the Rebellion,” which featured Mon Mothma’s anti-fascism speech to the Senate [watch it below]. His Disney + series was front of mind Thursday at Disney HQ in Burbank where the Writers Guild and more were protesting the company’s decision to suspend Jimmy Kimmel Live after it faced warnings from the FCC and major station group preemptions over his Charlie Kirk comments. Some of the writers’ signs read “Did you even watch Andor?” and “This is literally what your show Andor is about.”
As one of the writers on the Disney+ drama Andor , we spent six years thinking about a fascist takeover of a galaxy far, far away. Six years thinking about ordinary beings as an authoritarian