Publisher’s note: The following story contains spoilers for season 2, episode 2 of “The Last of Us”.
Pedro Pascal knew that Joel’s fate in season 2 of “The Last of Us”, episode 2, would be devastating for fans.
In accordance with the first events of the Naughty Dog game “The Last of Us Part II” – Once again, the spoilers are in advance – Joel is brutally killed in the payment of this week of the HBO series. He succumbs to his injuries after being beaten by Abby (Kaitlyn Dever), a former firefly chasing Joel in Jackson, in Wyoming, to avenge the murder of his father at the end of season 1. back in the final of season 1, Joel killed the unarmed surgeon in the cold blood, as well as the fire soldiers who killed the hospital, In the hospital, while having saved the ellie of the egg of the Ellie of one of the procedures which would make one killing the only one, at the idea of the Ellie of the work of the work of the work of the work, of the work, the work, the work, the work, the work. intended to exploit his immunity against infection in order to find a remedy.
In the episode on Sunday evening, in a mountain lodge, near the place where Joel’s Town is ravaged by Infeced, Abby beats Joel with a golf club, then pushes a point in his neck.
While “The Last of Us” was recently renewed for season 3, it would seem that Pascal will no longer be part of the franchise except for potential flashbacks – his body seen wrapped in a trained bag through the extended Wyoming of Wyoming, now tidy and snowy), Dina (Isabela) and Jesse (Young Mazino).
“It is not as if they said:” Hey, we kill you at the start of season 2 “,” said Pascal to Entertainment Weekly in a Sunday evening cover on the last episode. “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.”
Pascal, on the other hand, added that he was “in the active denial” of the release of Joel. “I realize more and more as I get older, I find myself denying that everything is over,” he said. “I know that I am forever linked to so many members of the experience and that I must simply see them in different circumstances, but I will never do it in the circumstances to play Joel on” The Last of Us “. And, no, I don’t spend much time thinking about it because it makes me sad. “”
In HBO of HBO, “Last of Us” Post-Specifications (via Variety), Ramsey said about the torsion: “I knew that Joel was going to die, but reading him in the script, I redoubled this little piece … and I cried. I actually sobbed my little heart. This is the first time that I shouted when I read a piece of writing. ”
As for fans’ reactions, Pascal can relate to the frustration of seeing a favorite character on the screen.
“I only have respect for the level of investment that people have in a video game or a television program or a film or a book,” said Pascal in the same post-spectacle. “I experience it myself. I threw books through the room because its impact is so deep on me … I think it’s incredibly painful for people, and it is obviously a brilliant achievement of the narration. “
The actor will be in a multitude of other projects, however, so that the public still takes advantage of “The Last of Us”. Pascal leads “The Fantastic Four: First Steps” and also plays in “materialists”, both in theaters this summer.
