[Interviewer]
Guys, thanks for joining me today in studio.
First of all, I think the highlight is reunited.
Both of you back together — and it feels so good.

What — what was reunited and reunited feels so good?

[Alan]
It’s been amazing, you know.
I mean — I mean, it’s been horrible all these years without Alan.

[Alan]
Mhm.
Well, there was the restraining order —
and that really put a damper on things.
But now that that has expired, and I can —

[Diego]
I think you know what’s going to happen.
Like, we might not work again,
but we might be hired to promote other people’s work.

[Alan]
Oh yeah. You think?

[Diego]
I mean — yeah, we can come to celebrations
and talk about other projects.

[Alan]
Oh yeah. Okay, cool. Yes. Yes.
And pretend we know everything about it,
and just be together and have fun.

[Diego]
Reunited.

[Alan]
Reunited yet again.

[Diego]
Again. Let’s do it.

[Interviewer]
Well, getting on set together —
was it just like riding a bicycle?
Felt like no time had passed,
or was it taking a moment to kind of regain your footing?

[Alan]
I was coming into a world that was — you know,
I felt like I was a guest.
You guys had been in the cold, the rain,
and all the things you went through for the first year
and going into the second.

And I just came in right there —
just kind of slid in
to connect it all together.

So it was —
I mean, I was —
but again, like, my trailer —
the thing they had as my name was Old Pal.

So I —
it felt, at the same time, like being a guest,
but I also felt like I belonged.

Also, because I was in the original Rogue One,
I had a certain cache that other people didn’t have.
I felt like — and I took advantage of that.

I went around set taking pictures of everything —
with my phone out.
Taking pictures of props —
with your phone — on the cockpit.

[Diego]
You had your phone.

[Alan]
Yeah.
Well, you know, the director was giving directions.
You were like, “Dad, I mean, I know what I’m doing.”
Yeah — been doing this for ten years.

So, I was taking pictures,
and then finally there was some guy who shows up
and stands next to me to make sure I stop.
But then nobody told me to stop.
I kept doing it —
because they just let me.

I mean, as long as no one tells you to stop,
I feel like you’re in the clear.

I have a friend who’s a huge Star Wars fan,
and he used to work at ILM.
But he’s just a huge fan —
so I was sending him all these pictures of droids and stuff.

[Interviewer]
Sending them to someone?

[Alan]
Yes, yes.
But I knew this might be the last interview I actually give Billy.
But I knew I could trust Billy —
because he worked for ILM at one point.

[Diego]
You can trust Billy.
What you cannot trust — is the word is out.
He’s going to be out in a second.
It was Billy Brooks.
It was Billy Brooks.
It wasn’t me.

You know what? One thing —
it wasn’t like the past.
Now it took us twice the time to get in the cockpit.

It was like, “Okay, we’re going to move the camera —
do you guys want to be out of there?”
And we were like, “No, no, just leave us here.”

Spend all that time getting in —
my knees are going to be happy to stay here.

Also — I don’t know —
I had been working out more than I was the first time,
and my shoulders —
you had to, yeah, to get past me.

And it’s in it where it bumps me for you to leave.
I get knocked around to leave.

So I had more width the second time around.

[Alan]
Yeah. Look for my width.

[Diego]
He started losing weight over the years with the Rebellion.
He started going, like,
“The food is not the same.”

[Alan]
No. No.

[Interviewer]
Alan mentioned coming into a world that’s been in progress —
so you want to know what keeps you coming back to Cassian.
Like, what is the message you’re hoping fans take away
from his story in the final season?

[Diego]
Well, I think —
I mean, first, I have to say —
from an actor’s perspective,
this job is just the best place.

We’re working with amazing material.
This long format allows us to go through so many layers,
try many things.

And then the system we have in shooting
gives the feeling of each block being a film.

So we work with the care you work with in cinema —
and the rigor, and the precision, you know.

It takes a long time.
We ended up doing two seasons
because we could never get to five, as we promised.

It takes two and a half years to do one season.
Therefore the work is very —
you know, there’s a lot of attention to detail.
There’s time for everything.

And I’m working with an amazing team —
every designer is fantastic,
every technician, every actor.

So the journey is exciting.
You learn a lot.
You don’t want to be anywhere else.

It’s — it’s a dream job.
And then you come to these things
where they remind you that what you’re doing matters to them,
as much as it matters to you.

And that makes this — perfect.

[Interviewer]
Well, I have to wrap up,
but all that love and care and attention
comes across on the screen —
and I just want to say congratulations on all.

[Diego & Alan]
Perfect. Thank you. Thank you.