It’s an element that star Diego Luna believes is crucial to the film and his character, Cassian Andor, and also explains his most controversial actions in the movie.
Rebels aren’t just white hat cowboys who ride in to save the day, but scrappers who are willing to do whatever they need to do in order to take down their oppressors.
In the Star Wars canon, the fight between the Rebellion and the Empire has long been presented as a straight-up black-and-white battle between good and evil — but part of what makes Gareth Edwards’ Rogue One: A Star Wars Story intriguing is the fact that it throws important shades of gray into George Lucas’ universe.