Tudyk Captures the Childlike Joy of K-2SO

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The actor who voices and performs the movements for the towering Imperial droid has a theory that, in his reprogrammed mind, Cassian Andor is basically K-2’s dad.

By Jade Fabello

After the terrifying Ghorman Massacre that unleashed the full might of the Empire’s KX droids, K-2SO, the fan-favorite reprogrammed Imperial droid, made his proper return to the screen in Andor Season 2, episode 9.

It has been a full decade since actor Alan Tudyk first said hello to the character during the filming of Rogue One. And over the years, Tudyk has had many opportunities to see how much the character means to fans.

“The neat stories that I always just love to hear are the ones between fathers and daughters, mothers and sons,” he says. “K-2 and Rogue One are things that families connect over. Although for kids, ‘I’m like, God, wow, kids are growing up fast because everyone dies.’ For me, it would’ve been traumatizing, but I was a kid from the seventies.”

Tudyk recently sat down with StarWars.com during a visit to the Lucasfilm headquarters to reflect on the enduring appeal of the wise-cracking droid who, in Tudyk’s mind at least, thinks of Cassian like a father…

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