Here’s a fun challenge: find a photo of yourself from nine years ago. Show that photo to a friend and try to convince them it was taken this year. For many of us, this would be hard to accomplish due to the amount of physical aging we undergo in a decade.
However, for Diego Luna, it was essential. In fact, he had to convince millions of viewers that his 2024-self looked younger than his 2015-self.
Luna stars as Cassian Andor in the Star Wars series Andor. The series, which streamed its final episodes earlier this year, finished filming in 2024. However, Andor was a prequel to the 2016 film Rogue One: A Star Wars Story, which began filming in 2015. In short, 2024-Diego Luna couldn’t look older than 2015-Diego Luna, which is pretty hard when nine years have passed.
Diego Luna recently spoke about getting into the mindset to finish Cassian’s journey in Andor season two, and how he mentally prepared for the final episodes. “For me it was very easy, because I know the ending perfectly,” Luna says during a panel at PaleyFest 2025. “I worked hard on that ending long ago. So, it was just about staying as young as possible so people would believe it was a prequel.”
What was his secret? “A lot of water and eating healthy,” Luna jokes.
Luna went on to praise the show’s writing, saying that it was instrumental in helping the actors with their characters. “One thing that was a great tool that doesn’t happen in television normally is that everything was written for us. The material was there; it was just ideas that were one day going to turn into pages.”
“We had the pages. We could track, we could go through the whole journey of the whole season we were executing. We had material then we had a lot of time to work on. There was big chunks of pre-production, so we understood it.”
The script definitely helped, but I need a copy of Diego Luna’s skincare routine.