{"id":22238,"date":"2022-09-19T01:01:00","date_gmt":"2022-09-18T23:01:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.radiotimes.com\/?p=1707903"},"modified":"2022-09-19T01:24:08","modified_gmt":"2022-09-18T23:24:08","slug":"andors-diego-luna-didnt-expect-to-enjoy-working-with-new-droid-b2emo","status":"publish","type":"rss_feed","link":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/radiotimes\/rss_feed\/andors-diego-luna-didnt-expect-to-enjoy-working-with-new-droid-b2emo\/","title":{"rendered":"Andor\u2019s Diego Luna didn\u2019t expect to enjoy working with new droid B2EMO"},"content":{"rendered":"

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By David Craig\n \t\t<\/p>

Published: Monday, 19 September 2022 at 12:00 am<\/p>

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Diego Luna is no stranger to acting opposite droids in the sprawling Star Wars franchise, but nevertheless, he admits that he wasn\u2019t expecting to enjoy working with Andor<\/a>\u2018s adorable new creation.<\/p>\n

The actor won legions of fans for his performance in 2016\u2019s Rogue One: A Star Wars Story<\/a>, which saw rebel spy Cassian Andor (Luna) and his unlikely partner K-2SO (Alan Tudyk) join a mission to steal the Death Star plans.<\/p>\n

Disney Plus<\/a> spin-off series Andor takes place years earlier and introduces another droid buddy for the title character in scrapyard assistant B2EMO (think R2-D2 meets Pixar\u2019s Wall-E and you\u2019re on the right lines).<\/p>

\u201cB2 is an amazing character,\u201d Luna told RadioTimes.com<\/a>\u00a0in an exclusive interview. \u201cIt\u2019s a great actor, you know, and I say actor because there is someone behind it that is actually working with you. In this case, it\u2019s a team\u2026 on set, you\u2019re working with three people and one is giving voice to it while you\u2019re there.\u201d<\/p>\n

Sure to be a hit with audiences, the adorable B2EMO is a kind and somewhat naive soul who speaks with a stammer, provided by voice actor and puppeteer Dave Chapman (who also worked on the sequel trilogy\u2019s breakout star BB-8).<\/p>\n

Luna continued: \u201cIt\u2019s a process that is beautiful, you know. It\u2019s alive and it\u2019s like being on set with another actor, it\u2019s as simple as that. But also, they move, they react\u2026 it\u2019s quite unique. I never thought I\u2019d find myself enjoying something like this.\u201d<\/p>\n