Ghorman (people)

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"We are the Ghor! The galaxy is watching!"
―A Ghorman protest chant — 20?cb=20250116042720 ▶️ (file info)[2]

The Ghormans, or the Ghor for short, were a cultural group who came from the planet Ghorman. Humans were among the Ghorman people. The Galactic Empire's Ministry of Enlightenment pushed the image of the Ghormans as a prideful, arrogant people as part of the anti-Ghorman whispering campaign.[3]

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Behind the scenes

According to Imperial security trooper actor Eugene Lin, the casting brief for actors who would portray the Ghormans in Andor was "Caucasian, ideally Italian."[4] However, Ghorman culture and its resistance movement draw upon French history, with showrunner Tony Gilroy even confirming that the production mainly hired French actors to connect the Ghorman Front to the real-world French Resistance. The Ghor language, furthermore, was built through French phonetics.[5] When asked why Ghorman was composed mainly of white actors, Gilroy stated the cultural and racial roots of Ghorman culture had been "a big topic of conversation" behind the scenes, with Gilroy ultimately keeping the actors mainly French and white because "presenting an idealized society, or some sort of idealized utopian diversity in the planet," would not have helped him "tell the story of oppression on Ghorman." As he explained, "one of the main weapons" deployed against Ghorman was the planet's own insular community, which the Empire was able to paint as selfishness to turn the Ghormans' "own pride and insularity" against them. According to Gilroy, the crew came up with casting French actors for the Ghormans once they came up with the idea of the Empire turning the planet's own culture against it.[6]

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  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 Andor logo new Star Wars: Andor — "Ever Been to Ghorman?"
  2. ↑ Andor logo new Star Wars: Andor — "Who Are You?"
  3. ↑ Andor logo new Star Wars: Andor — "One Year Later"
  4. ↑ Instagram-Logo Eugene Lin (@andor.imperial.officer) on Instagram (post on May 16, 2025): "rames from LucasFilm / Disney+’s ‘Star Wars: Andor’ (2025) season 2, episode 8 ‘Who Are You?’, playing an Imperial Officer. The Ghorman Massacre is the key turning point in Star Wars lore, and it was a privilege to be part of the live-action episode. I filmed for 23 days in Pinewood which were punishingly long especially in the difficult costume, outdoors in the February cold. But this was all balanced by the integrity, care and genuine passion from the director right down to the runners to tell the story in the best way possible. We knew we were making something very special – we just never knew it would be rated as one of the top 10 TV episodes of all time ever. Returning to this role was a personal milestone in many ways. The deliberate casting brief for the Ghor was ‘Caucasian, ideally Italian’. There were a few black and mixed-race Imperial Officers, and even two East Asian stunt men playing Imperial cadets, but I was again the sole East Asian Imperial Officer. Being right at the front of the barricades, I faced a literal sea of angry white faces as the only East Asian actor shouting and protesting my presence, which really heightened the theme of Imperial conquest. We were in the third week of filming this scene when the massacre really took off. The lasers were added in post-production, but every single shot blast you see on screen was real. They really did blow up the hotel and set fire to the barricade, and the terror you see both on the Imperial and Ghorman side of people running, fleeing and falling was genuine. Exploding squibs were rigged on barricades near my face, which brought out the natural fight instincts and performance as I gunned down innocent Ghorman protestors. This truly was a once-in-a-lifetime experience that I will never forget. © 2025 & TM Lucasfilm Ltd. #actionactor #behindthescenes #onset #starwars #starwarsandor #imperialofficerferrix #theempire #firearms #firearmsonscreen #gunsonset #starwarsandorseason2 #andorseason2 #imperialarmy #asianmalemodel #asianmuscle #londonmodel #singaporemodel #eugenelin" (backup link)
  5. ↑ Premium-Era-real How Andor created a ‘French’ planet in the Star Wars universe by Greg Evans on The Independent (May 8, 2025) (backup link archived on May 16, 2025)
  6. ↑ Premium-Era-real ‘Andor’ Showrunner Tony Gilroy Explains Why the Massacred People of Ghorman are All White, French-Coded: “Their Own Pride and Insularity Are Being Used Against Them as a Weapon” by Meghan O'Keefe on Decider (May 7, 2025) (backup link archived on May 8, 2025)