These articles contain spoilers For the second arc of the second season of “Andor”.

Alderaan’s Organa lease was a figure of vegetables in the “Star Wars“” Mythos of the very first episode in 1977, when Princess Leia Organa sent her Holomessage recording to Obi-Wan Kenobi in her exile on Tatooine. It was the most desperate time of the galaxy: lease asked Leia to recover Obi-Wan Kenobi and put it back in the fold of the rebellion and to bring the plans of star of death to the rebellious base. But Dark Vader captured Leia and made an example of Alderaan using the death star to transform it into space dust. Bail Organa encountered its tragic end among alderaanian citizens during this explosion, and has never been seen on the screen in the 1977 film.

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The lease character Organa was not seen in the flesh before “Attack of the Clone” of 2002, when it was played by actor Jimmy Smites. At this stage, Smits could have been best known for his time in popular television programs “Law” and “NYPD Blue”, but suddenly, he had entered a galaxy far, far.

Decades before “a new hope”, “the attack on clones” gave Smits a chance to expand the character who would become the adopted father of Princess Leia and a scion of the rebellion against the Empire.

After his first appearance in “Attack of the Clones”, Smites returned to “Revenge of the Sith”, witness at the end of the Jedi. After saving Obi-Wan Kenobi and Yoda, he took the adoption of Anakin Skywalker’s daughter, Leia … and that could have been the end of the character’s trip to “Star Wars”. Instead, it seemed that it was perhaps only the end of Smits’s mandate as a character; Bail Organa appeared in the television series “Star Wars: The Clone Wars”, but this time, it was expressed by Phil Lamarr.

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After that, it did not seem that there would be more opportunities for more “Star Wars” narration, especially involving Organa’s surety as a character, until George Lucas announced that he was developing on more films and would sell Lucasfilm in Disney. This paved the way to Jimmy Smites to return to the role twice as much – once on the big screen in “Rogue One: A Star Wars Story” in 2016 and again on The Disney + series “Obi-Wan Kenobi” 2022, where the show finally explained one of the oldest relationships of all the “Star Wars”.

It would seem that it could really be the end of the line for Jimmy Smites and his race by playing the character. To date The second season of “Andor” in 2025, “ Senator Bail Organa was again rebuilt.

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A silent surprise awaited fans looking at the second season of “Andor” when we were reintroduced to Senator Bail Organa, but it was not the familiar face of Jimmy Smites who welcomed us. Instead, it was Benjamin Bratt. Bratt is probably better known for his roles in “Law and Order”, “Miss Congeniality” and like the voice of Ernesto de La Cruz in “Coco” by Pixar. But now he will take the coat of the actor and senator of “Star Wars” by Alderaan – although exactly how many live stories there are to tell with lease Organa is to guess anyone after “Andor”.

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Seeing Bratt in the role was a little disorienting at the beginning, but the filmmakers behind the series wisely gave us a cameo in an episode to get used to the public to change. By his next inevitable appearance (you knew a character that this big one was not going to be relegated to only a minute of screen time), his manners, his voice and his gravity, coupled with the Alderanian costume and his CAP which could not belong to any other, to fully convince us that he fully embodied the role of the bail. This ends up working perfectly, and in a written program as well as “and or”, it is difficult to reproach them to refound instead of writing such an important character in history entirely when Jimmy Smites was not available for any reason (to date, there has been no reason for change).

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“Andor” season 2 broadcasts new episodes every week on Disney +.