I’m gonna go out on a limb here and suggest the type of person to watch Andor is probably a bit more grown up, thoughtful and compassionate than the audience that was turning up for ‘Obi Wan v Vader: Round 1.5’.
Varada Sethu reveals that the online racist onslaught against the Obi-Wan Kenobi series made her worry about playing an openly queer woman of color in Andor:
“But I honestly didn’t face any of that. It says how much accepting people can be.”