After having won 16 nominations at the Emmy for season two of The last of usHis stars and his creative team have redesigned to the emotional season of the celebration of HBO Max’s nomine for Sunday.
Pedro Pascal, Bella Ramsey, Kaitlyn Dever, Joe Pantoliano and the editor Timothy Good joined the co -creators Craig Mazin and Neil Druckmann during the event, with the second episode of the season – who sees Abby to suddenly Dever murder the character of Pascal, Joel – The subject of a large part of the conversation.
“You are so inside that you really lose sight of what it will mean when a television audience knows episode two of season two,” Pascal told The Funk, and since Joel also dies in the video game on which I have been based on the series for a long time.
It was a surprise for many fans, however, and it is a pivotal part of the series; After an appearance in the first episode of season two, the second EP serves as an official introduction to Abby – who will take over as the main character of the third season to come – as a young woman to take revenge after Joel killed his father.
“Kaitlyn has just returned, I had no doubt in my mind that she was going to get him out of the park, because I had seen her out of the park she had ever done to this point,” continued Pascal. “So there was a dance that we just could really appreciate, to be just stage partners for something as intense as that, and immediately be just in it. It was really fun.”
The star also noted how him and Ramsey – whose characters are not on good terms in season two – were separated for some time between the first and second seasons of the show, “because we had been together for a year, then we saw ourselves here and there – we are still in contact, but we were really not together. Jobs.
Mazin congratulated Dever for his performance in the violent scene, stressing: “I don’t know how Kaitlyn looked at Pedro, turned to watch golf clubs, turned and a tears fell. I don’t know how she did. ” Dever threw the compliment directly on Pascal and Ramsey, for the scene when Ellie de Ramsey is sobbing on Joel’s lifeless body.
When “Joel is lying there, I don’t know how you did this moment,” she told the couple. “I had to leave the room. I couldn’t watch it. I don’t know how you did it. ”
Dever also explained that when it was his character, “the most important thing for me when I was going to play Abby and prepare for her is to really focus on her grief. I wanted people to really see this and feel that and really understand how deep she was, understand what she was going to do when she was going to do when she was going to do with Joe.
“There was a moment at the end when she kills Joel, and I think there is a moment when she doesn’t feel better and now she has to live with that,” she continued. “So I really wanted to be able to see the human parts of her and that she is not only this bad person who did this horrible thing.”
