Andor Creator, Genevieve O'Reilly Discuss Mon Mothma's Series-Ending Make-Under: 'There's Not A Great Salon On Yavin Yet'

Having played Mon Mothma: Low-Maintenance Rebel Alliance Leader in 2016's Rogue One: A Star Wars Story (as well as in mostly deleted scenes from 2005's Star Wars: Episode III – Revenge of the Sith), Genevieve O'Reilly knew throughout her Andor run that a major make-under awaited her at the end of the Disney+ prequel series.

"We always knew that that's where she had to be," O'Reilly notes in the TVLine video below. But what made the "return" of that circa-Rogue One Mon Mothma fun is how Andor Season 2 leaned into the senator and mother-of-the-bride's glam self.

"I think what was really great was the big swing that [Andor creator] Tony [Gilroy], and our costume designer Michael Wilkinson, and our hair-and-makeup designer Emma Scott took at the very beginning of Season 2," O'Reilly notes, "to allow [Mon Mothma's appearance] to be so antithetical to where she was previously. You can see such a huge visual, physical representation of how different her life has become."

Plus, as Gilroy himself is quick to quip, "There's not really a good salon on Yavin yet," where the rebel alliance is based from Rogue One on. "They don't have it together yet."

O'Reilly goes on to effuse about "a real electricity when we were doing that scene" set on Yavin in Andor's finale, featuring other Rogue One characters such as General Draven (Alistair Petrie), Senator Bail Organa (recast with Benjamin Bratt) and a hologram Saw Gerrera (Forest Whitaker). Being "back around that big round table was pretty special," she says.