Freedi Pamular

Dewi: "Wise to be jumping quickly, though. Where ye be looking to run now, eh?"

Freedi: [Grunts affirmingly]

Andor: "Niamos?"

Dewi: "Oh."

Freedi: "Niamos. Haye. Niamos."

Dewi: "Oh, yeah."

―Dewi, Freedi, and Andor discuss escaping Narkina 5^[4]

Freedi Pamular was a male alien from the moon Narkina 5 who worked as a fisher with his brother Dewi Pamular. In 5 BBY, the pair were fishing by a quarry lake when they captured the fugitives Cassian Andor and Ruescott Melshi, who had been trying to steal the brothers' quadjumper.

Dewi and Freedi discussed turning the prisoners over to the Galactic Empire but decided to help them escape instead, for the Empire's prisons had poisoned the waters and killed the fish that the fishers usually caught. The brothers agreed to take Andor and Melshi to the world Niamos and flew them there in the quadjumper.

Biography

An eventful fishing trip

"Mysie my."
[Freedi speaks Narkinian]
"Prison, haye? Escapers. Toosie-two. A thousand each the offer be. One for each of us, Freedi."
[Freedi speaks Narkinian]"

―Dewi and Freedi discuss Andor and Melshi — 20?cb=20250116042720

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Freedi Pamular was a fisher^[3] from^[1] the moon Narkina 5,^[5] where he spent his days on fishing expeditions with his^[3] Keredian brother, Dewi Pamular. The pair caught edible fish in the moon's quarry pools,^[6] but their quarry began to die out after the water was poisoned by prisons that the Galactic Empire had constructed on Narkina 5.^[4] In 5 BBY,^[7] the brothers traveled in a quadjumper to a lake in one of the quarries and set up on the edge of the water with their equipment and fishing nets.^[4]

While the pair talked and tended to their equipment, they were being watched by two human fugitives, Cassian Andor and Ruescott Melshi, who had escaped from one of the Imperial facilities. Hoping to flee Narkina 5, the former prisoners then rushed past the brothers toward the parked quadjumper in an attempt to steal it, but they were thrown to the floor when they triggered a sensor that caused sticky netting to be launched over them. Having simply watched the humans being captured, the brothers chuckled and then made their way over to the constricted men, who were reeled in toward them.^[4]

No friends of the Empire

"Kill anyone they would. Kill the water. Kill the squigglies. Care not a snod who they kill, haye?"
[Freedi speaks Narkinian]
"Scob the Empire. They not be killing ye. Naye today. Wise to be jumping quickly, though. Where ye be looking to run now, eh?"

―Dewi and Freedi decide not to turn in the fugitives^[4]

Dewi pointed out that the Empire offered a reward of a thousand credits for each prisoner returned to them and bemoaned the fact that the prisons had been spoiling the water, with Freedi regularly agreeing as his brother spoke. Claiming that they meant the brothers no harm, Melshi and Andor then pointed out that it was the Empire who had killed the fish, not them. Freedi then stated that the Empire would give the reward for the prisoners either dead or alive, causing Dewi to chuckle as Freedi extended a blade from his arm.^[4]

The prisoners began to plead with the brothers, but Dewi announced that the Empire would not be killing them today, so Freedi used his blade to deactivate the sensor, which released the humans from the netting. After Dewi suggested they leave quickly, Andor asked that they be taken to^[4] the world^[8] Niamos.^[4] The brothers agreed to fly them there, with the four^[1] taking off in the quadjumper and successfully escaping the moon before going their separate ways once they reached their destination.^[4]

Personality and traits

"What? What is he saying? What is he saying?"
"He's saying, alive or dead, the offer goes."

―Andor asks Dewi to translate Freedi's Narkinian words — 20?cb=20250116042720

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Freedi was a hulking^[2] beige-skinned alien^[4] male with beefy limbs,^[3] black eyes, and black hair.^[4] He was the less chatty of the two brothers, who were not related by blood,^[2] and spoke Narkinian with Dewi.^[9] Freedi shared his brother's dislike of the Empire as its prisons had caused the fish to die.^[1]

Equipment

"Looks like it's just these two."
"They didn't walk here."

―Melshi and Andor discuss the fact that Dewi and Freedi must have a starship — 20?cb=20250116042720

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Freedi had heavy implements capping his limbs, with his right hand being replaced by an extendable blade. These gave him the appearance of a formidable fighter, but in actual fact the blades were mostly used for chopping up the fish he and his brother caught.^[3]

The alien had a metal skull plate on the top of his head and wore a brown shawl, beige leggings, a gray belt, a necklace, and black-and-gray sandals. On their fishing trip, Freedi and his brother used various fishing equipment, a quadjumper, and a sensor that could launch retractable,^[4] sticky, organic-looking netting.^[9]

Behind the scenes

Freedi Pamular was portrayed by Liam Cook and voiced by Damian Farrell in the television show Andor, appearing in the first season's eleventh episode, "Daughter of Ferrix,"^[4] which aired on November 16, 2022.^[10] The character's surname was not spoken in the episode but was listed in the credits.^[4]

Freedi's design was originally created for^[2] the 2016 Anthology Series film,^[11] Rogue One: A Star Wars Story, but it did not make it into the final cut. There were also plans to use the design during the Kessel sequence of^[2] the 2018 Anthology Series film,^[12] Solo: A Star Wars Story, but once again the character did not make it on screen.^[2] The character's scene was photographed in Middle Peak Quarry in Wirksworth, Derbyshire in the United Kingdom.^[13]

The scene required more production meetings then almost any other in the series in order to establish how, when, and why they were going to shoot it and whether the tone could be as funny as they intended. Executive producer Tony Gilroy wanted it to be "Sergio Leone meets the Coen brothers" and loved the final result despite the complexity that went into making it.^[14]