Diego Luna Already Feels Melancholic About Andor Coming to an End, Talks Best Actor Nomination Possibilities

In a new interview with Associated Press, Diego Luna is already dreading the release of the final season of Andor, even if the show still has two months left of shooting. As he continues to push for a nomination in the Best Actor category at the upcoming Emmys, the actor also took the chance to speak about the lack of Latino nominations over the past few decades, a curse that is pretty much meant to be broken this year.



Luna, actor and executive producer on Andor, has never been shy about praising his collaboration with showrunner Tony Gilroy and the rest of his team. And as he explained to AP, he's not looking forward to saying goodbye:

(Center): Cassian Andor (Diego Luna) in Lucasfilm's ANDOR, exclusively on Disney+. ©2022 Lucasfilm Ltd. & TM. All Rights Reserved.



Diego Luna is one of four actors that are likely to get a nomination this year. The list also includes fellow Star Wars actor Pedro Pascal for The Last of Us, Only Murders in the Building's Selena Gómez, and Jenna Ortega for Wednesday. It's been a while since a Latino actor was nominated for Best Actor at the Emmys; in fact, the only actor to have competed in the category is another Star Wars veteran (who could potentially join the second season of Andor too), Jimmy Smits, who won in 1990 for LA Law and scored five consecutive nominations for NYPD Blue, the last one being in 1999.



Luna spoke about this lack of nominations for Latino actors in the lead actor category and how we could be on the verge of a huge change because of the overall shift to more diverse stories in the industry:

(L-R): Kino Loy (Andy Serkis) and Cassian Andor (Diego Luna) in Lucasfilm's ANDOR, exclusively on Disney+. ©2022 Lucasfilm Ltd. & TM. All Rights Reserved.



Last but not least, Luna also addressed the elephant in the room for the second season of Andor. During the first batch of 12 episodes, we were introduced to a vast array of characters, most of whom are not in what is now billed as the retroactive 'series finale', 2016's Rogue One. That means the new season will have to bring some finality to their arcs, and while Luna didn't confirm as much, that will probably mean tragic ends for some of them:

Andor is looking to wrap production in August of this year, targeting a release date on Disney Plus by the end of summer 2024. While showrunner Tony Gilroy has been absent from the set since shortly after the WGA strike was called, Stellan Skarsgård insisted recently that the series has not been affected by it.



The Emmy nominations will be announced on July 12.



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