Andor creator Tony Gilroy

Bullseye with Jesse Thorn

Jesse Thorn

Society & Culture

4.5 • 2.6K Ratings

🗓️ 29 April 2025

⏱️ 57 minutes

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Writer, director and showrunner Tony Gilroy joins us to talk about the new season of Andor and what makes the show so different than any other Star Wars program. He also shares what his plans are after the series concludes, and tells us about how he almost entered a career in music instead of film.

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0:00.0	This is Eric Glass.
0:01.8	In Lily's family, there's a story everybody knows by heart.
0:05.2	If this story had never happened...
0:06.8	All of us wouldn't be here right now.
0:08.6	Sammy wouldn't be here?
0:09.7	She'd Anna wouldn't be here.
0:10.8	Wally wouldn't be here.
0:12.3	Anyone that we know wouldn't be here.
0:14.9	So what happens when Lily's mom tells her, this story is not true?
0:20.0	This American life, surprising stories, every week.
0:25.1	Bullseye with Jesse Thorn is a production of Maximum Fun.org and is distributed by NPR.
0:36.6	Hey! Hey! It's Bullseye. I'm Jesse Thorne. In a career that has spanned three decades, Tony Gilroy has made a habit of playing it safe. Those are his words, not mine. Tony, who's a writer and
0:57.7	director, comes from a showbiz family. His brother is Dan Gilroy. He directed Nightcrawler,
1:04.3	among other movies. His other brother, John, is an editor. And his dad, Frank Gilroy, was a playwright and a filmmaker. He won a Tony
1:14.2	and a Pulitzer in 1965 for the play The Subject was Roses. When Tony and his brother were kids,
1:21.9	their dad took a lot of big swings. He was a guy with grand ambition. He'd dump his own money and time into movies and plays and
1:30.8	TV shows, and when they hit, they hit. Things were great. When they didn't, the family would end up,
1:37.9	well, right on the edge of poverty. At first, Tony didn't want anything to do with his dad's career. He figured he'd be a studio
1:46.6	musician, lay down a sweet keyboard line on a Mariah Carey track or something. Cash a check,
1:52.9	call it a day. Eventually, though Tony realized his calling was movies and television, but instead of
1:59.1	working on fancy, artsy stuff, he stayed modest.
2:03.9	He'd get his own screenplays produced from time to time, but he was just as happy to do a punch-up.
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