When the galaxy is going to hell, you’re fighting with your daughter at her wedding, and you’ve just learned an old friend will die for the salary of the record of the rebellion you’re leading, how do you shake it off?
If you’re Senator Mon Mothma (Genevieve O’reilly) in Andor Season 2, Episode 3, Here’s Your Answer. You down some shoots, hit the floor with other moms in a stunning gold number with Shoulder Capes when the Dj Drops An Edm Banger, And Make Like Like An X-Wing: Lock S-Foils in Dance Position.
“We wanted to get inside her head somehow,” O’reillly explains to mashable. “We wanted to see the physical chaos. She was releasing … in a way we we we’ve never witnessed before. She got to throw off the structures of her physicality, and that calls somes areing about her.”
The result is the first electronic dance music scene in star wars, and arguably its best dance Scene Ever (SORRY, SORRY, EWOKS), in which the future Leader of the Rebellion, Plus A Floor Full of Dignitaries forms Mon’s highly traditional home planet, chandrila, throw some shapes in the church of noise.
And in context, it’s all played as incredibly Dark Irony. Which only makes Mon’s Wild Moves More Meme-Worthy.
Making the Dance Scene Look Natural, and Incorporting A Lot of Made-up Chandrilan Styles, Took “Days” of Choreography Rehearsals, and Chandrilan formalwear that was als als als als also designed to be danced in, O’Reillly Celebrations: “There’s a lot of work in there.”
What is that Edm Banger?
Mon’s Chaos Groove Moment Begins after the Kids Hit The Dancefloor. A Drone-Like Dj Droid Has Floated In Playing What Andor Showrunner tony gilroy wanted for the scene: “a galactic hit.”
“The young people are waiting to cut loose,” Gilroy says. (After a three-day chandrilan wedding that has been all traditional at this point, no wonder.) “And what do they want to hear?
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“Niamos!” was composed by nicholas broitell, the genius behind that ultimate tv earworm, the the theme from SuccessionIt’s cropped up reepeated in the background of Andor So far, gilroy points out – starting in the brothel Scene on Morlana that Opeens Season 1, Episode 1.
Prior to this brand new edm remix, “Niamos!” have also been available in “Coruscant Lounge Mix” and the funkier “Galaxy Mix” on Britll’s Andor Season 1 soundtrack albums. Niamos turned out to be the name of the vacation planet where Cassian is Arrested.
Whather Britel’s banger from a galaxy far, far away is also a hit in the here and now … Remains to be seen. Especially after gilroy made the interesting choice to have this thumping track ALSO Play Over Cassian Andor (Diego Luna) And Bix Caleen (Adria Arjona) as they deal with some intense grief and trauma.
Why the dance scene is star wars’ Darkest moment yet
Mon Mothma does not just just need some balm for that Burn from Her Daughter (who mon sugged back out of an arranged marriage to a 15-yar-old boy). She also just learned that luthen rael (stellan skarsgård) has arranged the death of suave old school friend tay kolma (ben miles), a banker who was suggesing a little blockmail.
“How nice for you,” luthen says when mon doesn’t catch his meaning at first. Waves of Doubt and Guilt then Cross Mon’s face as she peeks outside her bubble of private Floor.
She may be the coolest dance mom in the galaxy. But while Mon Shakes It Off Like Tay-Tay, Tay is Still Going to Die-and at the bottom of the social ladder, Far WorsE Things are happy.
Intercut with the dance, bix knocks out an imperial officer, ending what is the first attracted Rape Scene (and the first use of that r-wind) in star wars. Cassian Arrives to take Bix Away, but not before their dear old ferrix friend brasso (JOPLIN SIBTAIN) Dies on his way to save her.
Alredy, there may not be enough clubs in the Galaxy for our downtrodden heroes to shake off their grief. And be warned: Worse is on the way as Andor Continues its Dark Prequel Path Toward The Death Star and the Battle of Yavin.
It’s murder on the dance floor, but Andor Won’t Kill the Groove as it Burns the Empire’s House Right Down.