Interview With "Andor" Season 2 Composer Brandon Roberts

The Next Best Picture Podcast

Tv & Film

4.2 • 542 Ratings

🗓️ 21 April 2025

⏱️ 34 minutes

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Summary

"Andor" Season 2 is one of the most brilliant and best television shows of 2025. Closing out what began in Season One and adding a whole new layer of appreciation for "Rogue One: A Star Wars Story" while providing the best characters and story the franchise has ever seen, the new season has already garnered significant critical acclaim. One praised element of the first season was the score by Academy Award-nominee Nicholas Britell. For season 2, showrunner Tony Gilroy brought on Emmy Award-winner Brandon Roberts to continue the story of Cassian Andor through his music compositions for the show. Roberts was kind enough to spend some time speaking with us about his work on the second season, which you can listen to below. Please be sure to check out the series, which is scheduled to premiere on April 22nd, with three episodes released weekly until May 13th. Thank you, and enjoy! Check out more on NextBestPicture.com Please subscribe on... Apple Podcasts - https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/negs-best-film-podcast/id1087678387?mt=2 Spotify - https://open.spotify.com/show/7IMIzpYehTqeUa1d9EC4jT YouTube - https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCWA7KiotcWmHiYYy6wJqwOw And be sure to help support us on Patreon for as little as $1 a month at https://www.patreon.com/NextBestPicture and listen to this podcast ad-free Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:19.9	You are listening to the Next Best Picture podcast,
0:22.8	and this is Brandon Hodges' interview
0:24.9	with the composer for Andor Season 2, Brandon Roberts.
0:29.4	We're in a war.
0:30.8	You want to fight?
0:33.3	Who you want to win?
0:38.4	All right, well, thank you so much win? All right.
0:39.1	Well, thank you so much for joining me today.
0:42.2	I wanted to start with how you join the project.
0:46.7	Tony Gilroy recently said, you know, when Andor Season 1 composer, Nicholas Britell had to step back.
0:52.5	He felt despair.
0:57.0	And he was really worried until he finally got connected with you and then loved your work. And having seen all of season two now,
1:02.1	I can say you do really excellent work through the season. So how did you initially come on board
1:07.1	the project? What were the first steps in determining what the scoring process would be?
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