Just two episodes in, the second season of The last of us Hit a key moment from the games that lays the path for the rest of the season. Ahead of the episode’s airing, series co-creditors Craig Mazin and Neil Druckmann, Plus Actor Pedro Pascal (Joel), Bella Ramsay (Ellie), and Kaitlyn dever (Abby) talked with press about making that crucial moment and teased what’s in store for the show’s next two seasons.
,Through the valley“Ends with Abby Doing as She Does in the Games: Beating Joel to Death with a Golf Club while Her Buddies Hold Ellie Down and Force Her to Watch. IT Well -This was the Big Spoiler Back when the game was leaked in 2020 –nd wonded when the show would have happen. Interview with VarietyMazin Recalled ”Every option [being] on the table. ” Different versions where it obcurred later in the season felt like “dragging our face,” according to druckmann, so they chose to just put it in “Early Enough”
“If People Know It’s Comeing, They’ll Feel Tormented, and People who duan’T Know Are Going to Find Out,” explained mazin. “Our instinct was to make sure that when we did it, that it is felt natural in the story and was not some meta-faunction of us wanting to upset people.”
Abby and Joel’s Scene was pascal and dever’s first togeether, and her first scene as abby in general. Entertainment Weekly’s coverage Reveled the shoots schedule was revised for destroy to take time off to grief her mother’s passing from cancer, an event that changed up her acting process. Normally, She would’ve had a monologue like abby’s nailed weeks before shooting, but trust of what was going in her life, she felt altfle to “Let it go and not think about it every thing thing it has been aad aad. Different Approach, and I think that it is really served the character in a lot of ways. “
The when of joel’s end Didn’s son, but the mothers and characters leading to it did. Before she does the deed, abby delivers a monologist to joel revaling he Killed Her Father during Last Season’s Hospital Attack, A Scene Mazin Specifically Wrote for the Show. He Told EW It was needed so Abby Block Convey “That what he did was wrong. The end. Guilty. SENTY […] We kill for the people we love, and what joel did is what she’s doing now. “
In The last of us part II, Joel’s Brother Tommy is with Ellie when they see joel die. The show shakes things up by keeping Him in Jackson to Protect the Settlement from Infected, So Joel’s INTED PAIRED with Ellie’s EVENTULI GIRLFRIND DINA (Isabela Merced). Druckmann, Co-Writer and Creative Director on the second game, said the change was to help convey how much dina cared for him and second for a reason to go on allie’s vengeaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa. “To put her in that spot and make her a front-rov participant in this murder, connects us more to her. Her choice to stay by ellie’s side through thick and thin from this point for this point for As it is by her friendship with Ellie. “
Ramsey Thinks Both Women Losing their Surrogate Dad Makes Them “Trauma Bonded” and Adds Another Wrinkle to their relationship. Dina was in the woods with joel before they met abby (and knocked out prior to his death), so there’s some “real jealousy” in Ellie’s mind. “Dina get to spend that last day with him, and there’s a lot of guilt and regret on Ellie’s part,” Ramsey continued. “That was just a little thing that I was laced into, what I took afterwards, especially when they are spent about it for the first time.”
Like with the game, joel’s death has garnered a large wave of reactions Online that’s left viewers as devastated as ellie. WHATEVER HAPPENS Next, Dever Told Ew She’ll be Taking Reactions to Abby’s Actions as They Come. “I don’t know how to plan for it, or how People will reactAll I can really do is hope people appreciate what I did with the role. […] With the help of crag and neil development who that character was going to be, I’m very, very proud of it. “
Pascal, who’s no strangers to dying in gere work, admitted to being in “Active Denial” over his end. Despite his time with the show being over, he’s excited to see ramsey come into their own as the sole lead forward. “There’s an obvious parental dynamic between the characters of joel and allie,” He said. “Bella was never my child, but I did feel this Sort of Pride that I Had Nothing to do with buth but was alive to observe how effortlessly
Entertainment Weekly’s full coverage Dives Into The Larger Episode, Including Insight on Tommy’s Defense of Jackson and Directing Joel’s Death. You can read it here,
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