, snapshots for every character, little moments of truth of who they are, little pieces and shards that go back to who they were,” say writer/producer Tony Gilroy. “And the pieces that we had for Cassian were that he’d been in the revolution since he was six years old. He’d been fighting since he was six years old.
“To me, it celebrates, in a way, and it challenges audiences in a very special way. It’s like you know this is possible. You know someone is capable of this. Well, I’m going to tell you something, you don’t know about what triggered that and, to me, that is when storytelling becomes fascinating.”Who is Cassian Andor?
Cassian is a human soldier and, later, intelligence officer, who became a hero of the Rebel Alliance after he played a pivotal role in obtaining the plans to the Death Star, helping to destroy the planet-busting space station in the events of the filmsis set five years before those historic events, so here we meet Cassian when he is still unformed, a kid from the wrong side of the galactic tracks trying to find his way in the galaxy.