Genevieve O’Reilly

Andor – Season 2 (2025)

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A collage of various different Andor characters stood in front of a starry night sky.

Andor Season 2 (2025) Poster © 2025 Lucasfilm Ltd™. All Rights Reserved.

Creator: Tony Gilroy
Starring: Diego Luna, Stellan Skarsgård, Denise Gough, Kyle Soller, Genevieve O’Reilly
Production Company: Lucasfilm
Kent Locations Used: Hever Castle

Set five years before the events of Rogue One and A New Hope, Andor (2022-2025) follows thief-turned-rebel spy Cassian Andor as he becomes radicalised against the Galactic Empire and joins the Rebellion.

The series was created by Tony Gilroy (Michael Clayton, Nightcrawler) and stars Diego Luna (Y tu mama también, The Book of Life) as Cassian Andor, Stellan Skarsgård (Good Will Hunting, Amistad) as Luthen Rael, Denise Gough (Too Close (2021), The Stolen Girl (2025)) as Dedra Meero, Kyle Soller (Anna Karenina, The Titan) as Syril Karn and Genevieve O’Reilly (The Honourable Woman (2014), The Dry) as Mon Monthma.

Production visited Kent to film a flashback scene at Hever Castle for Season 2 Episode 10 of Luthen and a young Kleya (April V Woods) blowing up a bridge. The lake at Hever Castle also briefly appears in Season 2 Episode 7, doubling as the exterior of the Yavin rebel base.

The original home of the Boleyn family, Hever Castle is an outstanding 13th Century Tudor castle with a moat, stunning Italianate gardens, a beautiful lake, as well as a mock Tudor village. Previous productions to have filmed there include The Great (2020-2023), The Third Day (2020) and Inkheart (2008).

Season 2 of Andor was released on Disney+ in stages, with the first three episodes dropping on Tuesday 22nd April 2025.

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The Honourable Woman (2014)

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The Honourable Woman - Nessa Stein (Maggie Gyllenhaal) wearing a headscarf standing in a desert

The Honourable Woman © BBC/Drama Republic

Director and writer: Hugo Blick 

Starring: Maggie Gyllenhaal, Lubna Azabal, Eve Best, Andrew Buchan, Janet McTeer, Tobias Menzies, Genevieve O’Reilly, Katherine Parkinson, Stephen Rea

Production company: BBC Worldwide, Drama Republic, Eight Rooks, SundanceTV

Kent Locations: Cottage in New Romney, Little Cheyne Court Wind Farm, Dengemarsh Road, Romney Marsh

This BBC Two political thriller focuses on Nessa Stein (Gyllenhaal), a young woman who inherits her Zionist father’s weaponry business and gradually changes its purpose to laying data cables between Israel and the West Bank. As she continues to promote reconciliation between the Israelis and the Palestinians, she inevitably finds herself in the middle of a political maelstrom.

The eight part drama was written and directed by BAFTA recipient Hugo Blick (Up in Town, Sensitive Skin, The Shadow Line) and stars an award winning cast, including Maggie Gyllenhaal (Donnie Darko, Secretary, The Dark Knight), Lubna Azabal (Incendies, Body of Lies), Eve Best (The King’s Speech, Much Ado About Nothing), Andrew Buchan (Broadchurch, Nowhere Boy), Janet McTeer (Parade’s End, Tumbleweeds), Tobias Menzies (Casino Royale, Game of Thrones), Genevieve O’Reilly (Episodes, Spooks), Katherine Parkinson (The IT Crowd, The Boat That Rocked) and Stephen Rea (V for Vendetta, The Shadow Line).

In the summer of 2013, The Honourable Woman crew spent 2 days filming at several locations in the Romney Marsh area, including a cottage in New Romney, Little Cheyne Court Wind Farm, and Dengemarsh Road.

Romney Marsh in East Kent is a unique landscape of over 100 square miles of woodland, wetlands as well as sand and shingle shores. Many productions have taken advantage of this stunning area including Ginger and Rosa (2012), Great Expectations (2011) and The Inspector Lynley Mysteries – Natural Causes (2006).

The Honourable Woman starts on BBC Two on Thursday July 3rd 2014 at 21:00. 

 

 

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