Mon Mothma dancing is my 2025 mood
Sometimes, the world can feel like too much. It is in those moment when you just want to take a moment for yourself, it can feel liberating to finally just unwind. Which is embodied by Mon Mothma (Genevieve O’Reilly) in season 2 of Andor.
In the third episode of the first block of episodes, Mon Mothma is at her daughter’s wedding and decides to be free. She takes whatever alcohol is passed to her, and dances the night away. It is an almost cathartic moment. Think about it. Aren’t there times in your life when you want to just dance and not think about the bigger things happening? Mon Mothma is trying to save a falling society and fight back against the fascist rule of the Empire. If she wants to dance, she can dance!
The scene also is paired with some horrific things happening around the galaxy and the juxtaposition of her dance with what is going on does a lot to explore the pain we all feel and the lack of ability to fix it all on our own. It’s kind of poignant and beautiful. But I do think that many of us have been there.
“Of all the characters in the show, of all the hard roads that everybody’s going to walk during the whole show, I don’t know if anybody has a tougher path than she does,” Andor creator Tony Gilroy told Entertainment Weekly about Mon Mothma’s dance sequence. “Because other people have a physical expression that they can get out, or they can jump off a wall, or shoot a gun, or do something. She has to do the whole thing with people watching her. Her whole existence is being observed all the time — her driver, everything, every place she goes, she’s being watched.”
Dancing the night away is the best medicine
We have clubs, dance parties, or moments where we just put on our favorite song and move. I cannot tell you the amount of times I have blasted “Dancing On My Own” by Robyn just to feel something. I think that many of us have been there. Maybe not with the weight of society as people know it on our shoulders like it is for Mon but it is still the same general idea. Dance the night away and you too can forget for a moment.
It was honestly so much fun to see how Mon Mothma allowed herself to have that moment of freedom. Everyone constantly is watching her and looking to her. So why not allow herself to unwind in her own way for a moment?
Gilroy went on to talk about the dance sequence, saying “She has all the tension and pressure and disappointments and all the burden of everything but she’s just bound up in everything, and man, I want to ramp that.” But he went on to talk about how the dancing is her coming completely undone. “I mean, the dance floor is a place for her to just get…. She’s just escaping,” Gilroy said. “She’s deranged on that dance floor. She’s deranged. She’s completely undone.”
So if you feel overwhelmed, dance like no one is watching. Mon Mothma would understand you.
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