Disney was not having it at all, especially not in 'Star Wars' universe
As the Andor director tried to reason with Disney to include Star Wars' first f-bomb in the series, the studio was uncompromising and very strict on it: no swearing
During an interview with Variety, filmmaker Benjamin Caron unwrapped the details about the key scene, which the studio did not aprrove.
The scene shows Cassian's late adoptive mother, Maarva, delivering a fiery speech which ends with the slogan, "** the Empire!"
But the filmmaker revealed the line was switched to: “Fight the
empire!”
“Disney wouldn’t let us use it,” he remembered. “So we
changed it to ‘Fight the empire.’ I remember having a call with Tony Gilroy
saying, ‘Are we gonna get away with this?’”
The filmmaker
revealed he made strenuous efforts to add the slang as he even “wrote a
legal brief” to the studio to acquire their permission.
“I wrote
a memo on it and said, ‘Here’s why I think it’s economically prudent, and
here’s why I think it’s good,’” he revealed.
Earlier, Diego Luna recounted his secretive Star Wars audition
for Rogue One.
In a chat with Variety's Actors on Actors series,
the Andor actor revealed, "It was the first time such secrecy happened
around anything I was going to be part of," he said, adding the setting
seemed to be some spy-thriller flick.
"I was asked by my agent to
meet someone for something that couldn't be said on the phone," he
continued. "I went into a meeting in a restaurant that was completely
empty.
Adding, "There was a guy sitting in the corner with a
computer open, and this was Gareth [Edwards], the director. I sat down with
him, and it was just us for four hours."
