The First F-Bomb in ‘Star Wars’ Was Meant to Spark the Entire Rebellion on ‘Andor’

The Season 1 finale of “Andor” — the prequel series that presages the events of the 2016 film “Rogue One: A Star Wars Story” — proved to be a tough one for its team to ideate and execute. The episode revolves around the funeral of Maarva Andor (Fiona Shaw), the adoptive mother of the show’s central character, Cassian Andor (Diego Luna). Earlier in the season, Cassian finds himself — and his home planet of Ferrix — in the crosshairs of the Empire, and the oppression that follows for the people of Ferrix radicalizes Maarva against the empire.

So for her funeral, which becomes a gathering for most of the people of Ferrix, Maarva pre-records a holographic message that was going to be the first time someone dropped an “f-bomb” in “Star Wars” history.

At the end of Maarva’s message to the people of Ferrix, she exclaims, “Fight the empire!” But director Benjamin Caron reveals that the “Andor” team — including executive producer and showrunner Tony Gilroy — wanted her to say “**** the empire!”

“But Disney wouldn’t let us use it,” Caron told Variety. “So we changed it to ‘fight the empire.’ I remember having a call with Tony Gilroy saying, ‘Are we gonna get away with this?’”

https://variety.com/video/andor-f-bomb-fiona-shaw-maarva-funeral/