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Pedro Pascal reacts to the heartbreaking episode on Sunday evening which saw the death of his character Joel. Although it is not a surprise for those who played The last of us The video game of part II, the second episode of season 2 was a shock for many, but not Pascal.
“It is not as if they said:” Hey, we kill you at the start of season 2 “,” said Pascal Weekly entertainment in an interview. “But it has always been understanding that it would remain faithful to the source material in a specific way and that, let’s say, the practical and exclusive obligation would be for season 1. It was just a question of how and when.”
As for what he feels? In the episode, Joel was beaten to death by Abby de Kaitlyn Dever, in revenge for his father from Abby, a doctor, to save his daughter Ellie (Bella Ramsey).
“I am in the active denial,” admitted Pascal EW About Joel’s fate. “I realize it more and more as I get older, I find myself denying that everything is over. I know that I am forever linked to so many members of the experience and that I must just see them in different circumstances, but I never go in the circumstances to play Joel on Joel on The last of us. And, no, I don’t spend much time thinking about it because it makes me sad. “”
He also said that there had been a strong reaction from Cast and Crew when he presented himself on the set with his bloody makeup. “It was interesting to enter the room and see the reactions on the faces of people. It was not a revulsion but of sorrow,” he said EW.
Ramsey revealed their reflections on the episode in the HBO show. “I knew that Joel was going to die, but when I read him in the script, I redoubled this piece … and I cried,” they said. “I actually sobbed my little heart. This is the first time I cry while reading a piece of writing. ”
Pascal says he is proud to see Ramsey take care of what is now the story of Ellie.
“Bella was never my child, but there is an obvious parental dynamic between the characters of Joel and Ellie,” he said, “I felt this kind of pride with which I had nothing to do with but I could observe how efforts they entered in a leadership position.”
“It was really heavier,” said Ramsey EW change in their role. “I felt the weight of the responsibility of it, not the responsibility of being the main character. It is more fair the workload and to be there literally every day. I sometimes felt that I was carrying everything on my back, which is obviously not true. So many people contributed.
See the interview with Deadline with The last of us The creators Craig Mazin and Neil Druckmann about the episode of Sunday here.
