Season 2 of ‘Andor continues to advance at a good pace in Disney+, but the episodes that have arrived this week at the platform have left a surprise with which many of their fans were sure they did not count: Jimmy Smits He has stopped interpreting Bail Organ and has been replaced by Benjamin steep.
An especially striking change because Sms had played Organa in ‘Rogue One: a Star Wars story’ and also did it again in ‘Obi-Wan Kenobi’, so it was not a matter of having no interest in leaving in a series of the franchise. In the end the reason has been something of the most everyday in Hollywood.
A matter of agenda
Tony GilroyCreator and Showrunner of ‘Andor’, has had no problem recognizing that the absence of Sms is only due to the fact that it was impossible to square agendas, since the actor was very busy with the filming of another series -all points out that it refers to ‘East New York’-. As he clarifies in Collider, there was no other than looking for another actor:
Bringing back to legacy is always a complicated process between money and agenda and territory and everything else. Obviously, in a perfect world, I would have returned. They simply couldn’t get it. I was doing a television series that was in its peak at that time, and simply could not work. Finally, we have to have it because we have to do it. You have to have it. Ben was a brilliant replacement.
There some may think that the strikes in Hollywood have had something to do a couple of years ago, but the truth is that it was not the case, because it was learned that Bratt had signed for the series when he was seen in filming in March 2023. So it was a mystery to whom I would play and everything has been discovered now.
Of course, Bratt has barely had a small appearance for now in the series, but it is evident that his presence will be greater in the remaining six episodes of ‘Andor’. After all, Leia’s adoptive father plays a fundamental role in the rebellion in his role as a senator, so Surely we see him again.
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