“I actually sobbed my little heart,” said co-head Bella Ramsey
If you have never played The last of us part II Video game, the episode of the HBO series of the game last night may have left you quite shocked. But Pedro Pascal had been prepared for the fairly devastating turn of his character for a while. (Stop reading now if you haven’t watched the Sunday evening episode The last of us.))
In the second episode of The last of us“Second season, Joel Miller de Pascal was beaten to death by Abby (Kaitlyn Dever). “It is not as if they said:” Hey, we kill you at the start of season two “,” said Pascal in a new interview with Weekly entertainment. “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 the first season. It was just a question of how and when.”
However, Pascal had trouble abandoning Joel and his family of actors. “I am in the active denial,” he continued. “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. “”
Pascal led the series alongside Bella Ramsey, who plays Ellie. Ramsey thought about the scene in HBO after the episode show: “I knew that Joel was going to die, but reading him in the script, I redoubled this little … and I cried,” they said. “I actually sobbed my little heart. This is the first time I cry while reading a piece of writing. ”
In an interview VarietyThe co-creator Craig Mazin explained why they killed Joel de Pascal when they did, recognizing the pre-existing video game fandom playing a role in their decision.
“There is a danger of tormenting people. This is not what we want to do,” said Mazin. “If people know that it happens, they will start to feel tormented. And people who do not know that it will happen that it happens, because people are going to talk about the fact that it has not yet arisen. Our instinct was to make sure that when we did, that it was natural in history and was not a metal-function to disturb people.”
