内容摘要：“Send us videos when you cook!” women shouted to him at the market. He even prompted nostalgic comments from online followers like “now you make me miss my rural home!”

“Send us videos when you cook!” women shouted to him at the market. He even prompted nostalgic comments from online followers like “now you make me miss my rural home!”

“Who’s ever going to get another chance to do another 1,500 pages on revolution again, with this much money and this much muscle, and everything else?” he said.But as epic as the story is, its most essential moments are marked by intimate, one-on-one conversations.

“I start small,” Gilroy said. “I work teaspoon by teaspoon.”That includes a season-opening scene that starts with Cassian giving a young imperial mechanic the courage to help him in a major heist. He sells her on the ecstatic feelings of destiny rebellion can bring.“It’s quite beautiful and idealistic also, like a revolution has to be, It’s a great reminder of how romantic the idea of revolution is,” Luna said.

Cast members say it can feel revolutionary working for Gilroy, who passes on the same freedom to them that Disney gives to him. They’re never kept in the dark with the sort of script-rationing and secret-keeping that are the norm in major franchises.“He doesn’t believe in withholding information as power,” said

, who plays Andor’s partner Bix Caleen. “Before I read episode one, I knew the end. It’s just unheard-of.”

Her character’s arc in particular brings real-world elements including addiction and even darker forms of trauma unlike anything “Star Wars” has shown before.The crown went instead to Dutch Ambassador Margret Verwijk. Other contestants included ambassadors from Canada, the U.K., Australia, Turkey and “flavor master” Murad Baseer, the ambassador of Pakistan, whose meal took third place.

The dish the ambassadors were judged on has its own story.It’s made with what are known as “road runner” chickens — hardy free-range birds whose tough, flavorful meat is deemed by many to be tastier than that of commercially bred chickens. Known for scavenging and surviving in harsh rural conditions, the chickens are a staple of Zimbabwe village cuisine and often command high prices in urban restaurants.

The cookoff organized by Zimbabwe’s popular online foodie community TeamFulo encouraged the foreign envoys to do more than just cook a good meal.They visited rural and township markets to source their ingredients, learned local cooking practices and immersed themselves in Zimbabwean food, humor and culture. From bargaining at the markets in the local Shona language to cooking on open fires with clay or iron pots, and even tossing in some Zimbabwean slang for flair, the contestants dived in and posted their progress on social media.