Emmy nominations dropped yesterday — and needless to say, audiences have been heavily debating which shows and performers have been recognized for their hard work and which have not. Everyone’s got their opinions, including Andor creator Tony Gilroy, who recently opened up about who he feels is missing from the nominations list from his own series.
“There are a lot of performances that I wish were recognized,” Gilroy told Deadline about his Disney+ series. “Diego Luna and Genevieve O’Reilly. There are a dozen performances.”
For Gilroy, performances like Luna’s and O’Reilly’s are the glue of the show that makes the character development written on the page truly come alive — and will catapult them into legendary status, with or without any nominations.
“These aren’t great moment-to-moment [performances],” Gilroy said of the two snubs, as well as others he hoped to have been recognized. “These are epic, long-term character studies that they’ve done over 24 episodes. I think the ultimate victory is that these performances will be celebrated and discussed for years to come. I feel confident about that.”
Overall, Andor collected 14 Emmy nominations this year, which is the third most ever for a Star Wars show. The second and first seasons of The Mandalorian take the top two spots with 24 and 15 nominations respectively.
Luna plays the show’s starring role, Cassian Andor, while O’Reilly takes on the part of Mon Mothma, whom she began playing in 2005’s Revenge of the Sith. That said, her part ended up on the cutting room floor of that film, but she still returned to the role for 2016’s Rogue One and 2023’s Ahsoka. Additionally, she lent her voice to 2017’s Star Wars Rebels as Mothma.
Andor premiered on Disney+ in September 2022. The second and final season of the series took nearly three years to debut, arriving in late April 2025.
Lex Briscuso is a film and television critic and a freelance entertainment writer for IGN. You can follow her on Twitter at @nikonamerica.
