For Diego Luna, the sheer idea of being in the ‘Star Wars’ franchise was foreign. “I didn't even think about it. I was okay being a fan,’ Luna tells Newsweek’s H. Alan Scott. Now he’s starring in ‘Andor’ (September 21, Disney+), reprising his character Cassian from the 2016 movie ‘Rogue One.’

Part of what makes Luna’s involvement in the series so unique is the very thing he once worried would be a hindrance: his Mexican accent. “For me to play [a character] like that, where I would feel comfortable and it would make sense, in terms of context, accent, everything. Back then I didn't think there was room for that in Star Wars.” Ultimately, Luna believes that even though Andor “happens in a galaxy far, far away,” the show's “diversity and complexity” is the perfect evolution of Star Wars storytelling and “reflects the world we live in” today. “We have the responsibility of being different, and that's what Andor is there for.”

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