Andor Was Ready to Drop Star Wars' First F-Bomb

One thing that always confused me about Andor was why an award-winning star of stage, screen, and TV would accept the role of Andor's mother. If Disney hadn't gotten in the way, Shaw's talents would have been used to their fullest potential in the finale.

Shaw did not say "fight the Empire!" at the end of the TV series, according to the actor who plays Imperial Security bureaucrat Dedra Meero in the show. In her interview with Empire, she related where else she could go.

“My first day was Ferrix,” she said, recalling her arrival on the eight-acre town built at Pinewood Studios—a living, breathing, industrial planet. “I was given my two Death Troopers—one of whom had to be trained to run like a Death Trooper and not like a musical theatre star—and I couldn’t help myself, I just started doing the [hums the Imperial March]. Then, everyone started doing it.” From the very start, a rebellious spirit was in the air. “Fiona’s voice was over all of us,” Gough says, recalling the finale’s fire-and-fury funeral monologue from Ferrix’s formidable matriarch. “Except, at the end, she didn’t say, ‘Fight the Empire!’ She said, ‘Fuck the Empire!’ Which we were all really excited about. But we weren’t allowed to keep it, obviously.”

It's definitely obvious. Finn calls the DJ a bastard in The Last Jedi, which is the closest a live-action movie has come to swearing. Andor is the most adult Star Wars tale out there, showing the horrors of the Empire and the reality that not all rebels are heroes. The song feels right because it feels earned by Andor. They would be angry. The people would be angry. In Shaw's speech, "fight the empire" is implied. To debase it, to hate it, to condemn it like that, really feels like what Maarva would say.

The Empire and all of its fascists should be fucked. You can read the whole interview here.

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