Pedro Pascal is opening up about the finale for the first season of his hit show The Last of Us.
13.03.2023 - 05:31 / deadline.com
Now that The Last of Us has wrapped its first season on HBO Max, you probably have a few questions. Fortunately, series showrunner Craig Mazin and creator Neil Druckmann (who wrote the Sony Playstation Game on which the series is based) answered a few burning ones about the first nine episodes without giving anything away about season 2 (boo!). At least there will be one!
In the meantime, the duo talked about some of the decisions they made in season one, like bringing on Ashley Johnson (who originated the role of Ellie Williams in the video game series), how the infected zombies seemed to disappear as the series went on, and how important it is for Bella Ramsey (the show’s Ellie) to finish what she’s started.
On why the number of infected people actually decreased during the show’s run. “Part of the adaptation process is trying to figure out how to take source material that was built around gameplay and port it over to a medium that is passive,” Mazin told reporters before the finale. “And a lot of the gameplay centered on non-playable characters that you have to get around by either avoiding them or stealth killing them or just confronting them head on. That’s sort of your choices when you’re playing. And the NPCs were either raiders or cannibals, or they were the infected. So there’s a lot of fighting. I don’t know what your ultimate kill count is on a typical run of The Last of Us, but it’s in the triple digits for sure. So we did at times have choices to make about how we wanted to present the infected. I will say that even though we were green lit for a season of television, Neil and I felt like we couldn’t just make a season of television without considering what would come after. There is more The Last of Us
Pedro Pascal is opening up about the finale for the first season of his hit show The Last of Us.
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Chloe Bailey has said the reaction to her Swarm sex scene was “blown out of proportion” due to the fact she’s a woman.The new Amazon Prime Video series from Donald Glover features a star-studded cast of Bailey, Billie Eilish, Rory Culkin and Dominique Fishback. The last of which plays Dre, an obsessive, Houston-based music fan who goes on a murderous rampage over her favourite musician.Early on in the opening episode – which was released on March 17 – Dre’s sister Marissa (Bailey) is shown having sex, and the scene has been criticised by some for its explicit nature.In a recent appearance on the Big Boy’s Neighborhood podcast, Bailey defended the scene, saying: “I’m an actress and I feel like it’s about art.”“It’s not about seeing me in the mirror of that scene,” the actor-singer said.
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Bella Ramsey is opening up about the early days of their career, where they were rejected based on appearance.
The 19-year-old nonbinary actor made a splash as one of the only redeeming aspects of the flop final seasons of with their charming performance as Lyanna Mormont, the feisty head of the House of Mormont. More recently they jumped back into the cultural conversation for their stunning performance as Ellie, the equally feisty teen in HBO's adaptation of the post-apocalyptic video game , co-starring Pedro Pascal. But before the fame came, Ramsey struggled to get work as a child actor due to their appearance.
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is a heady tale of a young woman's obsession with a fictional pop star and how that evolves into a dark road trip with unpredictable encounters. But according to star Chlöe Bailey, it's more a tale of sisterhood than anything else.From co-creators and executive producers Janine Nabers and Donald Glover, follows Dre (Dominique Fishback), a young woman obsessed with the fictional pop star Ni'Jah, whose body of work and art style are very similar to Beyoncé's. Set between 2016 and 2018, the series follows Dre as her fandom takes her to dark, unexpected places, which begins after a tragic incident involving her sister Marissa (Bailey) and Marissa's boyfriend, Khalid.
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came to a (temporary) end on Sunday night with the release of its season 1 finale. Aligned with the conclusion of video game, creators Craig Mazin and Neil Druckmann have now officially brought the entirety of the game's first installment to the screen. Sunday night's release left fans reeling after a violent hospital shootout. Joel realized that the Firefly doctors' intended procedure — to analyze the cordyceps in Ellie's brain in the hopes of finding a cure -- would have killed her, and took out the surgeon and several Firefly guards in order to rescue Ellie off the operating table and get her out of the hospital.However, when she wakes up after his killing spree, Joel lies to Ellie — telling her that the doctors' science has failed and she is no longer part of their plan.
SPOILER ALERT: The story includes details about Episode 9 of HBO’s The Last Of Us.
Jordan Moreau SPOILER ALERT: This interview contains spoilers from the Season 1 finale of “The Last of Us,” now streaming on HBO Max. The world of “The Last of Us” just got its first major clue as to how Ellie, played by Bella Ramsey in HBO’s hit adaptation, became immune to the deadly cordyceps fungus. And, in a poetic, full-circle moment, the finale brought back actor Ashley Johnson, who originally starred as Ellie in “The Last of Us” video game, to play Ellie’s mother, Anna. The Season 1 finale opened with a flashback to Ellie’s birth — which had never been seen in the 2013 video game nor its 2021 sequel. Before Sunday night’s episode, there were no confirmed details about how Ellie became immune to cordyceps, and Anna had never appeared onscreen. In the episode’s surprise opening sequence, the season finale revealed that Anna was bitten by an infected person moments before giving birth to Ellie. Anna kills the assailant before cutting the umbilical cord, but those moments of connection may have created within Ellie a “chemical messenger” that “makes normal cordyeps think she’s cordyceps,” as Marlene (Merle Dandridge) later explains in the episode. (Dandridge is the only actor in “The Last of Us” who plays the same character that she did in the game.)
is all about the relationship between Joel (Pedro Pascal) and Ellie (Bella Ramsey), which made Sunday's season 1 finale all the more heartbreaking.In surprisingly fashion, however, the heartbreak this time around didn't come from the death of a beloved character — RIP Tess, Bill, Frank, Henry, Sam, Riley and all our other faves -- but from a lie.Having realized that the Fireflies plan for Ellie — which involved operating on her brain to analyze her cordyceps for a possible cure — would kill her, Joel went on a rampage, killing guards, doctors and finally Marlene (Merle Dandrige) as he broke a still-unconscious Ellie out of the hospital.When she came to, however, Joel omitted all of his own violence from the story, telling Ellie that the hospital was attacked by raiders but that the Firefly doctors had determined she wasn't the cure and she was free to leave.«I don't think Ellie does believe him, at her core,» Ramsey told ET's Ash Crossan during an interview for an ET and Comicbook crossover podcast. «I don't think she does, but she has to force herself to believe him enough, because the thought of it not being true is too painful.»At the episode's end, a still-skeptical Ellie even asks Joel to swear that what he told her was true — and he does.«I think that she forces herself to to believe him and buys into her own delusion because she has to for her own sanity,» the actress added. «But I think deep down she's always had a feeling.»If the truth comes to light in season 2, it's likely to cause a massive rift between the two, especially, Ramsey said, because Ellie would have «definitely» been willing to sacrifice herself for the cure.«That's her purpose, that's the reason she's alive,» she explained.
The Last Of Us has proved to be a major hit for HBO, and with the first season coming to a dramatic end, many will be eager to know if a second is on the horizon.Created by Craig Mazin (Chernobyl) and the original game’s co-director Neil Druckmann, the series follows Joel (Pedro Pascal) and Ellie (Bella Ramsey) 20 years after modern civilisation has been ravaged by a deadly infection.A synopsis reads: “The series takes place 20 years after modern civilisation has been destroyed. Joel, a hardened survivor, is hired to smuggle Ellie, a 14-year-old girl, out of an oppressive quarantine zone.“What starts as a small job soon become a brutal, heartbreaking journey, as they both must traverse the US and depend on each other for survival.”Reviews for the first season have been extremely positive across the board, so it’s no surprise that many are already looking forward to a second run of the video game adaption.The Last Of Us will indeed return for a second season.
The Last of Us season one is coming to an end tonight as the finale is set to air on HBO and we’re already looking forward to season two.