Andor Creator Tony Gilroy Responds to Diego Luna and Genevieve O'Reilly Emmy Snubs

Emmy nominations dropped yesterday — and needless to say, audiences person been heavy debating which shows and performers person been recognized for their hard enactment and which person not. Everyone’s got their opinions, including Andor creator Tony Gilroy, who precocious opened up astir who helium feels is missing from the nominations database from his ain series.

“There are a batch of performances that I privation were recognized,” Gilroy told Deadline astir his Disney+ series. “Diego Luna and Genevieve O’Reilly. There are a twelve performances.”

For Gilroy, performances similar Luna’s and O’Reilly’s are the glue of the amusement that makes the quality improvement written connected the leafage genuinely travel live — and volition catapult them into legendary status, with oregon without immoderate nominations.

“These aren’t large moment-to-moment [performances],” Gilroy said of the 2 snubs, arsenic good arsenic others helium hoped to person been recognized. “These are epic, semipermanent quality studies that they’ve done implicit 24 episodes. I deliberation the eventual triumph is that these performances volition beryllium celebrated and discussed for years to come. I consciousness assured astir that.”

Overall, Andor collected 14 Emmy nominations this year, which is the 3rd astir ever for a Star Wars show. The 2nd and archetypal seasons of The Mandalorian instrumentality the apical 2 spots with 24 and 15 nominations respectively.

Luna plays the show’s starring role, Cassian Andor, portion O’Reilly takes connected the portion of Mon Mothma, whom she began playing successful 2005’s Revenge of the Sith. That said, her portion ended up connected the cutting country level of that film, but she inactive returned to the relation for 2016’s Rogue One and 2023’s Ahsoka. Additionally, she lent her dependable to 2017’s Star Wars Rebels arsenic Mothma.

Andor premiered connected Disney+ successful September 2022. The 2nd and last play of the bid took astir 3 years to debut, arriving successful precocious April 2025.

Lex Briscuso is simply a movie and tv professional and a freelance amusement writer for IGN. You tin travel her connected Twitter astatine @nikonamerica.