There are floors with the power to fry people on Andor. The Imperial Security Bureau officer Dedra Meero uses headphones that play the sounds of a species that can transmit their painful death rattles to any living thing.
In a recent interview with /Film, Andor's supervising sound editor David Acord said that the sound itself was actually created for the show. It was like when that scene came up. We had to come up with a sound that would be used to torture someone. We came up with a lot of questions about what these creatures sound like. We came up with the idea of what the sound makes the characters feel. There is a sound.
The sound won't be played on-screen. Tony said, 'No, we don't want to hear it' The actors are allowed to carry that scene because the audience doesn't hear it. He said that once the headphones go on, it's just her breathing and terror in her eyes that sell it. The audience is expecting to hear something in that moment, and then when you don't, it immediately kicks in your own imagination. Is this something? Your imagination is going to be more frightening than anything we would create. It's effective.
It was definitely one of the scariest moments that we have seen so far, and we think Dedra Meero is about to start.
Andor is available on Disney+.
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