Of many, many breakout moments in Andor ‘s first season, the passionate posthumous manifesto of Alex Lawther’s Karis Nemik providing the backdrop for Cassian’s return home remains one of the series’ standouts —perhaps only matched when the recording made a surprise return in the show’s second and final season, spreading the message of the Rebellion like a fire across the galaxy. But it wasn’t until the man behind the performance himself learned about that return that he realized just how much of a mark Nemik had made on Star Wars .

Lawther, who, between that brief audio recording cameo in Andor season two and his turn as Joe D. Hermit in Alien: Earth , has made “appearances” in two of the best sci-fi shows of the year, told Polygon of his surprise in a recent interview

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