![]() In Andor, the new TV spin-off from the endlessly proliferating Star Wars franchise, Luna plays Cassian Andor, the intergalactic rebel he originated in the 2016 blockbuster Rogue One: A Star Wars Story. We cannot just say: ‘Let’s do it again.’” Films like that are like marks on the ground – they’re a reminder of something that happened and is gone. It was special and unique, but it was part of its time. “It could be a disaster!” he says finally. “Going back would be …” He thinks for a moment. Today, however, he turns his nose up at the idea. Luna even told the New York Times last year that he didn’t believe the claim by the film’s narrator that the two friends never saw one another again. There have been whispers of a sequel that might call in on the characters in their 40s. I think in a way we became a little addicted to it all: the intimacy and feeling like part of the family.” There wasn’t a moment when we weren’t teasing this person or that person, and getting into all these little dramas. “We were teasing each other nonstop, morning to night, competing in everything if there were five-minute breaks on set, we would grab stones and see who could throw them the farthest, or who could hit that target. “We had our characters’ energy,” he recalls. But mention the movie that started it all for him and it becomes clear that the years haven’t dulled his affection for it. That film kickstarted a career that has seen Luna switch effortlessly between Hollywood extravaganzas and smaller, homegrown Spanish-language projects, many of them socially or politically conscious. The climax, in which the friends’ threesome with their travelling companion, who has already bedded them both individually, blurs into an expression of gay desire for one another, was a moment of genuine daring and candour. ![]() (Luna’s British mother, Fiona, died in a road accident when he was two he was raised by his father, Alejandro, a set designer for theatre and film.) Though Luna landed a small part in Julian Schnabel’s Oscar-nominated Before Night Falls, it was his performance in Cuarón’s movie that showed the range of his talents, from bawdy knockabout comedy to plangent emotional honesty. ![]() The actors had been friends for many years, having grown up as child stars of Mexican television. ![]()
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