“It was actually quite incredible growing up like that,” he adds. García Bernal remembers those days fondly.
As a teenager, he apprenticed under his father, learning the ins and outs of theater production. “It was like being in Alice in Wonderland,” he recalls, holding his arms wide open to demonstrate the scale. Watching his father work entranced Diego. Luna remembers witnessing every step of his dad’s process, from the impressionistic sketches strewn across his home to the architectural dioramas that would steadily increase in size and detail. “We saw the adults play and we just wanted to play too. “We were quite advanced for our ages because we grew up really exposed to adult dynamics,” García Bernal tells me. They would become close friends and eventually creative collaborators, drawing deeply from their shared background. He forged a close bond with Gael García Bernal-another son of artists-when they were young. Whenever his father was working on a production, he would run around and watch the technicians and actors.
His mother died in a car accident when he was young, so Luna ended up spending a lot of time shadowing his father. “I was always in schools that were pushing you to be proactive,” says Luna. If there was a demonstration going on-say, the Chiapas uprising-educators would leave the door open for you to go. Social justice was central to their education. The student body would hold a referendum on everything, even on things as basic as what they would have for lunch. Luna’s schools were their own nascent forms of democracy in action. Tony Gilroy, the series’ creator, tells me that “the personality, leadership skills, grace, and empathy of the person that occupies number one on the call sheet has an incredible effect on a show.” In Luna, he found that he “could not have a better number one.” With Luna, that stubborn insistence on storytelling and heart trickled down through the rest of the Andor cast. You’re searching for glints of Shakespeare inside the terms and conditions. Of course, finding and holding onto space for artistry inside the vast bureaucracy of the Star Wars machine isn’t exactly easy.
“He approaches something not just as an actor, he really sees the bigger picture.” (As a child, Andor’s home world gets destroyed by the Empire.) “He’s got a directorial eye,” his former costar Sienna Miller tells me. I like to be able to have that texture in a universe like this.” Luna connected Cassian’s refugee status to the forced migration he sees happening all around the world. “We’re still telling very intimate stories and character-driven journeys. “We’re not here for the fireworks,” he says. Nevertheless, Luna doesn’t measure success by scale. I remember those days as being important. “I was 15 years old and I was feeling the responsibility of being a citizen in my country. He found comfort in the movement’s growing numbers and learned the power of banding together for a greater good.
“I remember meeting amazing people of all ages, all worried about the same issues, and feeling part of something meaningful,” Luna recalls on a recent hot July afternoon in Madrid. He and his classmates mobilized, independently organizing events-protests, concert fundraisers, food drives-to support the residents of Chiapas. With the encouragement of family and teachers, a teenage Luna would skip school to join the protests. In 1994, the Zapatista Army of National Liberation (EZLN) staged an uprising against Mexico’s government for the rights of Indigenous people in Chiapas, the country’s southernmost state. More than most actors, Luna gets what it’s like to be ushered into a rebellion. Luna tells me that, at its core, Andor is “about a community that is waking up.” The show, out in September, is part origin story, part political awakening, a saga about how imperialism can shake a population out of its reverie and make it fight back.
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Out of that line blossomed Andor, a new Disney+ prequel series set a few years before Cassian gave his life for the Rebel Alliance, which tracks his evolution from recalcitrant cynic to martyr.
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