Andor‘s Torture Device Originally Had a Sound to Go With It

The creatively cruel ways the Empiretortures Rebelshave been vividly showcased onAndor , like floors with the power to fry hoi polloi . But there ’s none more perturbing than Imperial Security Bureau officer Dedra Meero ’s arm of choice : earphone that dally the sounds of a species that can impart their painful death rattles to any experience thing through their cries .

Yeah , that one has go up as one of the benighted methods ever featured inStar Wars , and in a recently interview with / Film , Andor ’s supervising sound editor program David Acord share that the auditory sensation itself was actually create for the show . “ When that scene issue forth up , it was like , ‘ Oh , okay , well … ’ It ’s daunting , for sure , that we had to come up with a audio that is , ‘ What ’s the audio that would literally be used to torture somebody with ? ’ So we came up with a mountain of ideas of , ‘ What do these brute go like that they ’re emulating ? ’ Or possibly it ’s , we get along up with a more surrealistic affair of , ‘ What does the sound make the characters palpate like ? ‘ What is that sound ? ’ ”

Ultimately , however , it was decide that the sound would not be act on - screen . “ It was Tony [ Gilroy ] who said , ‘ No , we do n’t want to hear it . The audience does n’t hear it , and let [ actor ] Adria Arjona carry that panorama . So we go to double-dyed silence once the phone go on , and it ’s just her breathing , and just sort of that scourge in her eyes , and that construct up to that scream , that deal it , ” he say . “ And it ’s that absolute silence all around her , and it ’s feeling her little terror in that minute of just … because I think the interview is have a bun in the oven to see something in that moment , and then when you do n’t , it now kick in your own imagination into like , ‘ Oh God , what is she hearing ? What is this ? ’ And your own imagination is going to be far more terrific or interesting on an individual ground than anything that we would produce . So it is in effect . ”

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It was decidedly one of the most chilling moments that we ’ve seen on Andor so far , and we have the feeling that Dedra Meero is just getting started .

Andor streams on Wednesdays on Disney+ .

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