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You’re interacting with real stuff.” Fiona Shaw, who plays Maarva in the series, also revelled in the practicality. “As an actor, it’s beautiful,” says Luna on the practical production. The effect was the opposite of dark and dangerous for Andor's cast. “We didn’t use StageCraft at all.” It’s a choice that looks set to add even more grit and earthiness to a series all about capturing that texture, set at a time when the Star Wars galaxy is a particularly dark and dangerous place to be. “Yep, we’re old-school,” chuckles series mastermind (and Rogue One alumnus) Tony Gilroy, in Empire’s major new Andor feature – coming soon in the House Of The Dragon issue.

That meant building massive sets at Pinewood, heading out into the world to shoot on location, and leaving the video wall behind altogether. Upcoming Rogue One prequel series Andor – telling the story of Diego Luna’s rebel Cassian Andor amid the rising rebellion in the five years running up to that movie – went predominantly practical with its environments. Also known as StageCraft, it’s been deployed liberally on every Star Wars Disney+ series so far – until now. It’s a tradition that more recently has been continued with pioneering production techniques on The Mandalorian, The Book Of Boba Fett and Obi-Wan Kenobi – series that made major use of the ‘Volume’ an ultra-HD video-wall that offers in-camera effects and immersive digital environments for actors to work in. The effects on George Lucas’ original trilogy were groundbreaking – as was the shift to digital production in the prequels. As new documentary series Light & Magic makes clear, Star Wars has always been at the forefront of technical innovations in movie production.

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