EXCLUSIVE: Adria Arjona is open to a Star Wars return after Andor, but she has a few conditions.
The Peabody Award winner starred in the Disney+ series as Bix Caleen, a mechanic working on the planet of Ferrix whose modest life is disrupted by the return of her former partner, Diego Luna’s eponymous character, turning her into a fugitive from the Empire and a resilient member of the Rebellion. By Andor‘s ending, in which Cassian ventured off for his Rogue One mission, Bix was last seen on Mina-Rau, presumed to be that of hers and the eponymous character’s.
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⚡The SithRule of two
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👑The EmpireOrder 66
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The original Star Wars film — later retitled Episode IV: A New Hope — opened in just 32 American theatres and proceeded to become the highest-grossing film of its era, redefining what summer blockbusters could be. In which year did it premiere?
✓ Correct! 1977 — specifically May 25. 20th Century Fox had so little faith in the project they only opened it in 32 theatres at first; queues quickly stretched around the block, and the film expanded to over 1,000 screens within months. It earned $307 million in its initial domestic run, won six Academy Awards (with another four nominations) and inverted Hollywood’s economics for the next 50 years.
✗ Wrong. The answer is 1977. 1975 is when the script was being shopped around. 1979 is when Star Trek: The Motion Picture released as a Star Wars-shaped countermove. 1980 is The Empire Strikes Back. The original Star Wars is May 25, 1977.
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A New Hope’s writer-director was a then-32-year-old American Graffiti veteran who’d struggled to get the project greenlit and famously took back-end profit and merchandising rights in lieu of a higher salary — the deal that would build a billion-dollar company. He returned to direct the prequels but stepped away from the original-trilogy sequels. Name him.
✓ Correct! George Lucas. The merchandising rights he kept (because Fox didn’t value them) became the financial bedrock of Lucasfilm and the basis of the modern toys-and-licensing megabusiness. After A New Hope, Lucas produced but didn’t direct Empire Strikes Back (Irvin Kershner) or Return of the Jedi (Richard Marquand), then directed all three prequels (1999–2005). He sold Lucasfilm to Disney in 2012 and stepped away from creative control of the sequels.
✗ Wrong. The answer is George Lucas. Steven Spielberg was Lucas’s close friend (and the godfather of his post-A-New-Hope career) but never directed a Star Wars film. Coppola was Lucas’s mentor at USC and at American Zoetrope. Irvin Kershner directed Empire Strikes Back. The original is Lucas’s.
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In 1980’s The Empire Strikes Back, Darth Vader delivers cinema’s most-misquoted line at the climax of his Cloud City duel with Luke Skywalker. Vader severs Luke’s hand and reveals their relationship. The exact line is — for the record — “No, I am your father.” What relationship does it confirm?
✓ Correct! Vader is Anakin Skywalker, Luke’s father. The reveal was so jealously guarded that Mark Hamill was only told the real line on set the day they shot it (the script said “Obi-Wan killed your father”), and even James Earl Jones recorded the dub without knowing the full plot context. The line — commonly misquoted as “Luke, I am your father” — rewrote what trilogies could pull off and is broadly considered cinema’s most famous twist.
✗ Wrong. The answer is that Vader is Luke’s father, Anakin Skywalker. The whole foundation of the Skywalker saga collapses to this single twist: Anakin (the Jedi prodigy of the prequels) becomes Vader after his fall. Luke and Leia are revealed in Return of the Jedi to be his twin children, separated at birth.
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Yoda — the green, ear-twitching Jedi Master — was puppeted and voiced from his Empire Strikes Back debut through the prequels and the sequels by a single Muppet-show-veteran performer who also voices Miss Piggy and Fozzie Bear. Name him.
✓ Correct! Frank Oz — longtime Jim Henson collaborator and voice/puppet work on Miss Piggy, Fozzie Bear, Animal, Sam Eagle and Grover. Oz puppeted Yoda directly through The Phantom Menace before CGI took over for Attack of the Clones onward, but he’s continued to voice the character through the sequels and animated series. Yoda’s syntax was developed jointly by Lucas and Oz to feel old, foreign and hard-won.
✗ Wrong. The answer is Frank Oz. Jim Henson was Oz’s mentor and collaborator (he created the Muppets) but didn’t voice Yoda. Steve Whitmire took over Kermit after Henson’s 1990 death. Brian Henson is Jim’s son and runs the Henson company today. Yoda is Frank Oz’s.
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In a deal that reshaped Hollywood, Disney acquired Lucasfilm Ltd. for $4.05 billion in cash and stock — bringing Star Wars, Indiana Jones, ILM and Skywalker Sound under the Disney umbrella. The deal also kicked off the sequel trilogy production. In what year did Disney close the acquisition?
✓ Correct! 2012 — specifically October 30. The deal was announced with simultaneous reveal that a Star Wars Episode VII was being developed for a 2015 release. Lucas had been quietly preparing his exit from Lucasfilm for years; Kathleen Kennedy had been brought in as co-chair months earlier specifically to take over. The Force Awakens came out three years later, in December 2015, kicking off the modern era.
✗ Wrong. The answer is 2012. 2009 is when Disney acquired Marvel ($4 billion). 2010 is the year before Lucas began signalling exit plans. 2014 is when production proper began on The Force Awakens. Lucasfilm joined Disney on October 30, 2012.
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The Mandalorian launched as Disney+’s flagship original on November 12, 2019 — the day the streaming service itself launched. Created by Jon Favreau and run by Dave Filoni, the show centres on a helmeted bounty hunter who reluctantly becomes a foster father to “The Child” (Grogu). What is the Mandalorian’s real name?
✓ Correct! Din Djarin — played by Pedro Pascal under the helmet (with body double Brendan Wayne handling much of the physical work). The Mandalorian is widely credited with reviving Star Wars on TV, popularising the StageCraft LED-volume virtual production technology now used across Hollywood, and turning baby Yoda — Grogu — into the meme-economy phenomenon of late 2019. Three seasons have aired with a feature film, The Mandalorian & Grogu, set for May 2026.
✗ Wrong. The answer is Din Djarin. Boba Fett is the famous bounty hunter from the original trilogy, with his own Disney+ spinoff (The Book of Boba Fett, 2021). Cobb Vanth is the Tatooine marshal played by Timothy Olyphant. Bo-Katan Kryze is the Mandalorian princess played by Katee Sackhoff. The Mandalorian himself is Din Djarin.
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Order 66 — the secret directive that turns the Republic’s clone troopers against their Jedi commanders and effectively ends the Jedi Order — is dramatised in the climactic third act of which prequel film?
✓ Correct! Episode III: Revenge of the Sith (2005). Palpatine’s “Execute Order 66” comm to the clone armies leads to the methodical, planet-by-planet liquidation of the Jedi Order — one of the saga’s most operatic sequences, scored to John Williams’ “Anakin’s Betrayal” cue. The same film features Anakin’s fall to the Dark Side, the Mustafar duel with Obi-Wan, and his rebirth as Darth Vader in the suit. Widely re-evaluated as the best of the prequels.
✗ Wrong. The answer is Revenge of the Sith. Phantom Menace ends with Qui-Gon’s death and the unveiling of Darth Maul. Attack of the Clones ends with the Clone Wars beginning. Rogue One is set just before A New Hope, after Order 66 has long since happened. The Order 66 sequence is the climax of Episode III.
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Andor (2022–25) is widely regarded as the most adult, politically literate Star Wars project ever made — a slow-burn prequel to Rogue One charting Cassian Andor’s radicalisation against the Empire. The series was created and showrun by a writer/director best known for the original Bourne trilogy and Michael Clayton. Name him.
✓ Correct! Tony Gilroy. He’d previously been brought in for extensive Rogue One reshoots in 2016, and Lucasfilm gave him near-total creative independence on Andor. Season 1 (12 episodes, 2022) is widely regarded as Star Wars’ finest dramatic writing ever; Season 2 (also 12 episodes, in four three-episode jumps across 2025) closes the gap to Rogue One’s opening scene. Gilroy’s prior credits: Bourne Identity / Supremacy / Ultimatum / Legacy, plus directing Michael Clayton (2007).
✗ Wrong. The answer is Tony Gilroy. Rian Johnson directed The Last Jedi (2017). Jon Favreau created The Mandalorian and is Lucasfilm’s Disney+-era animation/live-action lieutenant. Dave Filoni runs the Filoniverse (Clone Wars, Rebels, Ahsoka, the upcoming Heir to the Empire film). Andor is Tony Gilroy’s.
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Now, in an exclusive interview with ScreenRant‘s Ash Crossan for our Onslaught cover story, Arjona has opened up about her potential Star Wars future. Arjona began by stating that there’s “a duality” to the possibility of her future in Lucasfilm’s franchise, particularly as she “want[s] to respect Tony [Gilroy]’s ending to the show,” but that “I also love this character so much that I would never say never.”
However, the Andor alum is careful to note she has certain conditions for whether she’ll be back in Star Wars at some point. For starters, “it would have to [have] someone great behind” the project, warmly recalling her time working with Gilroy and getting to “create this character with him,” wanting to “pay that respect” both to her former showrunner and Bix:
Adria Arjona: But you never know! If I’m 75 years old, and they’re like, “Do you want to be in a Star Wars show?” I’d be like, “Hell yeah, I don’t care! How much? They’re not really calling me, so I’ll do it.” But I do want to respect Tony’s version of the ending for my character. I have a little tattoo for Bix; a little X. The little X for Bix. My makeup artist on the show did it in my trailer, which nobody was very happy about. Tony was like, “Don’t tell that story.” Well, now the show’s done! It was a stick and poke, and she has it on her leg, and she tattooed me here. It was the last day of set. I was in tears, and it was a cute little way to wrap the character.
Arjona went on to reflect on her experience as a whole with Andor, denoting that she’s “never done two seasons of anything,” recalling the surprise at talking to other actors and learning they “spent 10 years” with their co-stars on their respective shows, whereas she spent “four or five with [my Star Wars] group,” who she feels “so close to,” and “love[s]” and “respect[s]“:
Adria Arjona: It feels like I’ve grown so much over the course of these two seasons. I think there was a very permanent before and after Andor for me and for my career, just in terms of who I am as an actor and as a producer. And even how the audience views me. It was all thanks to Andor, so I’m really thankful to that show. I think I came out a very different person.
In the one year since the show came to an end, Bix’s big closing scene in Andor‘s finale has plagued Star Wars fans with a variety of questions. In addition to the identity of her baby’s father, viewers have also pondered her reasoning for leaving Cassian just prior to his fatal Rogue One mission, with Arjona having previously explained that this stemmed from not wanting to hold him back from helping the Rebels bring down the empire, calling it a “big love sacrifice.”
Interestingly, the star also indicated that Bix was pregnant when she made the decision to leave Cassian in the finale, seemingly confirming him to have been the father. Gilroy, on the other hand, previously stated that he didn’t write the baby into the ending with any kind of mystery in mind, but instead simply didn’t want to completely end Andor on the “bummer” note of its titular character heading off to his death.
The identity of Bix’s father also wasn’t the only question left unanswered by Andor‘s finale. From multiple character fates being left ambiguous, including that of Cassian’s sister, whose missing nature was a big motivation in his early days on the show, to how the Rebel Alliance learned about Jyn Erso’s existence, there are plenty of breadcrumbs for other Star Wars projects to build upon.
Beyond the feasibility of getting another creator onboard like Andor‘s Tony Gilroy, the main hurdle Arjona’s Bix faces in potentially returning to Star Wars is finding an appropriate timeline placement for her story. Given the franchise is largely exploring stories in the Mandalorian/post-original trilogy era, Bix would likely need to be aged up for her new appearance. However, the record-setting success of the original show, and continued love from franchise fans, may inspire Lucasfilm to try and find a way.
