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The emotional whiplash of following Star Wars can be exhausting. As I mentioned in a previous post the awful sequels had driven me away to resentful exile before Clone Wars/Rebels/Rogue One and Andor S1 pulled me back so hard I found myself at Star Wars Celebration in London. Then Book of Boba Fett and the especially dissapointing Kenobi series put me right back into the hater category again...
After 1 episode of Andor S2 I was right back into the Star Wars Universe. Incredible. I'm almost ashamed of myself for being so fickle. There can't be another franchise or property in which has such a chasm between the highs and lows of quality.
Anyway, enough of the moaning, here is some positive observation of Andor Season 2.
One of the reasons I love Star Wars is we got Peter Cushing's incredible Tarkin in the original, and Christopher Lee's Dooku later as a highlight of the Prequels (and probably the most interesting new character before Rogue One and Andor).
Well, in this very familiar discussion about English accents and villians Ben Mendelsohn mentions Vincent Price https://youtu.be/dzGVE1MBT0Y?si=Nxgo3xzuLqInp112
This is nice in the tradtion of old horror movie actors and Star Wars but wierd as Ben is talking about astrocratic American Vincent Price as English. Price is on his mind obviously. Has Ben been basing his portrayal of Krennic on Price?
If so the obvious basis for Krennic would be Vincent Price in very English Witchfinder General but that is a famously locked down performance. It was forced out of Price and he bitterly resented the director until much later in his career.
Krennic is a bit of diva... maybe he is based on Vincent Price from The Masque of the Red Death?
Following this example are we going to get some actor doing an Imperial Moff in the manner of Boris Karloff?
