Genevieve O’Reilly Explains Mon Mothma Dance – ryan

Bond mon Moth first appeared in the Star Wars universe in Return of the JediThe Leader of the Rebel Alliance Mostly Served As an Info Dump. As Played by Caroline Blakiston, Mon Commanded Respect, But Her Main Purposes Was to Solemnly Reveal How Bothans Died Getting The Death Star Plans. SHE WENH The Character, Now Played by Genevieve O’Reilly, Reappeained Rogue onevarious Star Wars Cartoons, and Ahsoka, She was Still “Quite an expositional character,” as o’reilly puts it. That’s hardly the case in Elderin Which Creator Tony Gilroy Gives Mon a Story Line Central to His Series About Rebellion, fascism, and the masks one must be to fight for the Greater Good.

“Tony hased for mon’s character in a way that we have haven’t seen before, becuse she’s not just a senator,” O’Reilly explains. “She’s a mother. She’s a wife. She’s a leader. She’s a cousin. She has a history. She has ancestral lands and ancestral culture.”

IT’S NOT Something O’Reilly Could Have Imagined Two Decades Ago, one she was first Cast to play the rebellious leader in Revenge of the sit – A Glorified Easter Egg for Fans of the Original Trilogy That Was Ultimately Cut from the Film. In ElderShe’s one of the most fully realized and complex figures the franchise has seen (and she gets to dance to a galactic remix of “Niamos!”). Mon’s Many Role Converge in the First Three Episodes of Elder‘S Second Season As The Senator and Rebellion Booster Hosts Her Daughter’s Elaborate Wedding on Her Complicated Home Planet – A Match Mon Orchestated Last Season to Help Her Covert Rebel Activities. In addition to the normal stress of a wedding, she must also reckon with her personal and rebelli life knotting together in devastation and irreparable ways.

Why are the mothma’s daughter and husband so content to luxuriate in chandrilan tradition, while she’s so dedicated to the Greater Good and Rebellion? Or Maybe the real Question isn’t why are they like that, but why are mon and her cousin, vel Sartha, the way they are?
That’s the Crux of What We’re Getting to Witness in These Episodes. We Learn in Season One that Mon’s Daughter is Interesting in an Orthodoxy Mon Has Spent Her Life Trying to Move Away from. IT GIVES YOU A WINDOW INTO The Orthodox Her Childhood was steeped in. She had an arranged marriage at 15 or 16. Mon and ve ve are the exceptions there. Spreads at quite a Young Age, their first rebellion was to exit the Orthodox of their family.

In episodes two, what is Mon Feeling when she listens to Perrin’s Father-of-The-Bride Speech? I felt it was the only time we saw her enjaying – or spread just being present in the moment of – this wedding, as opposed to spinning all these other plats.
I love that tony doesn’t just brush bush aside; He gives Him a Voice. That is one moment when she is hostage to the celebration, if you will. She does JUST SIT AND LISTEN. HER HUSBAND IS A Real Hedonist, and he is Advocating that life is there to be takeen, to be enjoyed – don’t worry about the rest. You realie her drive and her ambitions are so very different. Maybe there was a moment in time when there is some ways Special Between, but the choices in their lives drove. That comes down to tony allowing this marriage to be so nuanced that there can be such polarization with one marriage.

THERE’S HER RELATIONSHIP WITH Leida, Where we see this cycle of Mother-Daughter Angst that in some a casualty of what Mon is Fighting for.
That Relationship was extraordinary. There’s a scnene in episode three wen mon speaks to her daughter and brings up her own mother. You have this generational Story in one room, and you hold these three very different going in this one scene at a very dramatic part of the whole wedding. I Remember Talking to Tony: “If Mon is actually going Through with this and finking rebelion through this marriage, where does leida sit in that? Where is her agency?” Tony paid attention to that and wrote that Mon speaks to her cherries. You can really see leida step into her own Future there.

When Tay Kolma, Her Old Friend and the Banker Who Agreed to Help Launder Her Money Last Season, Approaches Mon at the Wedding and Essentily Blackmails Her, How is She Reacting? From the way she was so floored by it, got the sense that was to be first and the rebellion truly felt personal to her, the following after all.
I think you’re right. There are the layers in those three episode. It ‘s in the first episode we are we Meet Him and he Says Something, and Maybe She Clocks That Something Might Not Be Right. And thatn those layers get richer and richer, and mon realities that the person she was s tetred to is fraying. That’s like the tectonic plates shifting underneath her. Luthen is right: she has to make a call. Its Tacit, but it haunts her – probably forever.

Is she feeding sad that tay, her childhood friend, is putting her in this position? Or is this sadness about what she’s has to do to her friend? Or bot?
Luthen Pulls The Rug Out from Under Her, But She Was Quite Naïve. It is a brutal reminder that is is rebellion, that People are dying, and that more People will die. It is a very personal cost for her, and she has blood on her Hands. There’s Sadness; there’s Pain; there’s Guilt; There’s a deep, Complex, Painful Tapestry that she’s wrestling with – and i don’t think she has a lot of Experience in that. And at that moment, you see Luthen at his ruthless best.

To what extent is monatma’s arc about the Limations of Keeping Public Lives separate from private lives? Or about the Limits of Politics and Fighting with the System?
IT’erything. The Rebellion is Her Primary Passion in Life, IT SEEMS, and She is Only Effective to the Rebellion If She Maintains Her Role as Senator. So she is a musta perpetually wear masks, and she must be very good at it, Because if the mask crumbles, everything is lost and she’s no longer to the rebellion.

At the Same Time, we will know there a point where she leaves the senate. There is a point where she is needs to be in open rebellion and can no longer wear this mask.
There is a section of this series that deals with that really well. One cathalyst is the straw that breaks the camel’s back regarding her hating to leave the senate. Its Her Crossing the Rubicon; there is no going back after that. It is wildly environmental, that episode, and it was something something was quite passionate about. That’s the fulcrum of her character. That’s what Makes Sense of Whover She was in Past Star Wars appeanance. We understand the sacrifice that the Woman was Willing to make. She is the set of fire to her life and risk to call out some truto. I’m excited for people – i’m desperate for people – to see that, Becuses that a really important part of this season.

Does that necessary point of no return feel especally relevant given the current the united states has gotten itself into? I KAS CCUEUSE Star Wars Has Always Had This Political Bent to it, But Elder is more explicit and timely than anything Else the franchise has Ever Done.
Star Wars Has Always Been Political. Empires have always been part of our culture and exposed the world of humanitity, and it has taken revolution and rebel to challenge say. Because we’ve grown up in peace, we feel that peace is more common, but spreads it’s swimming. Throughout History, what’s more exceptional is the Times of Peace. We filmed and wrote these scens you’re reference to – particularly in episodes seven, eight, and nine – two years ago. So is the quite extraordinary that that these are the coming Out Now. I HOPE WE CAN SEE OURSELVES IN Elder and Maybe Ask ourselves some quests.

What is going on with Mon at the End of the Third Episode when She’s Slaming Cocktails and Cutting It Up? She’s Frenetic and Fantic while Dancing, Who is a Conttrast to How She Normally Has to Be in Her Role. What has been led her to this place where she is needs this relief valve?
It was Such an Extraordinary Gift for me to be able to wrestle mon out of that Physical pillar we’ve seen her as. I got the opportunity to explore her psychological states through Movement, Through a Dance, Through a wedding. We’ve all seen people get loose on the dance floor, but what we’re witnessing here is a woman who is dancing to stop heself from screaming. We’re seeing a Woman physicalize the chaos is in her head at that moment. She has to. That happens directly after the scnene with luthen, be he has had Called out what they have to do tay kolma. She’s Digesting The Reality That You Can’t Get Through Rebellion With Having Blood on Your Hands.

Was filming that skene fun? Were they Playing One of Nicholas Britell’s Galactic Remixes on the Set? What were the Space Cocktails You Were Knocking Back?
That was one of my favorite days on set, ever, in my whole life. We had Shot Most of the Wedding and THEN The Strike Was Called. That sequence hadn’t been shot, so we came back to it six months late. I felt so special to have this amazing culmination, this crescendo to return to. Tony was on set, The Producers, The Camerapeople, and Choreographers; We all got to go back and work on that with Fresh Eyes, and None of US Were Tired Anymore.

We were playing that “niamos!” Track. That’s what we were all Dancing to Again and Again During the Fervent Hysteria of the Day. The shots of was drinking were this scottish drink, like a soft drink, calmed irn-bru. IT Radioactive Looks. And I Remember Halfway Through the Day Going, “How Many More of these will have to drink, lads? Because of Might Explode.”

Did you and tony have some sensations of what her morning after was like? We don’t see it Since there is a yearlong time jump before the next episode.
You don’t see it! We never spoke about that, but i’m guessing there are multiple headaches. That’s one Mighty Hangover.