Spoilers for Andor. Consider yourself warned. Andor may have the distinction of being the first Star Wars series to have a character say “shit” on screen, but it almost dropped an F-bomb as well.

While chatting with Empire, Denise Gough — who plays Imperial Security Bureau supervisor Dedra Meero — spoke of shooting the scene of Maarva’s (Fiona Shaw) funeral. In a posthumous holographic funeral speech, Maarva urges the people of Ferrix to rise up against the Empire, but what was said on the Andor set wasn’t what made the final cut. “Fiona’s voice was over all of us,” Gough said. “Except, at the end, she didn’t say, ‘Fight the Empire!’ She said, ‘F**k the Empire!’ Which we were all really excited about. But we weren’t allowed to keep it, obviously.” The F-bomb may have only been included to illicit a reaction from the actors on the Andor set,...