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In HBO’s hit series The Last of Us, it’s the end of the world as most of humanity knows it, but Pedro Pascal and Bella Ramsey feel just fine. Long gone are the traces of the hardened survivor Joel (Pascal) and the teenage spitfire Ellie (Ramsey), who must endure the collapse of modern civilization due to a deadly mutable fungus that turns people into zombie-like creatures. Well, sort of. Comfortably sat within the confines of a secluded lounge at the Directors Guild of America, the pair are swapping inside jokes and bursting with laughter. While Pascal trades in Joel’s stoicism for passion, Ramsey can’t quite shake the penchant for Ellie’s habitual cussing.
For what they don’t share with their characters in terms of post-apocalyptic misery, they speak with similar thoughtfulness as they describe the vulnerabilities of Joel and Ellie’s partnership, and of their experience working on the widely popular video game adaptation created by Neil Druckmann (who also created the game) and Chernobyl’s Craig Mazin. While the world at large knows them as the onscreen daddy-daughter duo, it’s clear that their bond has also transcended offscreen into something special, and the pair are thick as thieves.
Despite The Last of Us being a wildly popular video game series, you’ve never played it. And yet, here you both are on the TV series. What made you say yes?
BELLA RAMSEY: Well, they offered it to me, so I said yes because I wanted to do it.
PEDRO PASCAL: I didn’t know what the game was, but HBO had sent the scripts over, and I was put through a process of auditioning. Not a terribly arduous one, but one that had to be related to having read the scripts. I realized in reading episodes 1 and 2, that once Joel met Ellie, it was a part
Readers of the Manchester Evening News have had their say on the growth of the city following the launch of an artistic project designed to act as a cautionary tale for the future.
The cast of The Last of Us might have looked very different.
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Selome Hailu Water. Earth. Fire. Air. Long ago, Nickelodeon aired a hit animated adventure series called “Avatar: The Last Airbender.” Then, everything changed when Netflix began working on a live-action adaptation. Netflix has debuted the first teaser for its version of “Avatar: The Last Airbender,” which confirms for the first time that the series is set to debut in 2024. The streamer also shared first look at Gordon Cormier as Aang, Kiawentiio as Katara, Ian Ousley as Sokka and Dallas Liu as Zuko.Meet Aang, Katara, Sokka and Zuko in Netflix’s Avatar: The Last Airbender, coming 2024. #TUDUM pic.twitter.com/b7TKxo9pKC The short teaser also features new versions of imagery from the original series. The emblems of the Water Tribe, Earth Kingdom, Fire Nation and Air Nomads are shown etched into different terrains, cast in shadows as each nation’s respective element swirls around the rocks. At the end, following a piece of music reminiscent of the original, the series title and 2024 debut date are shown painted onto a piece of fabric that has been scorched — presumably by the Fire Nation, which is approaching world domination as the series begins.
The Last of Us started as a video game, became a hit TV series and is about to become not one but two live attractions: Universal Studios’ Halloween Horror Nights will open Last of Us haunted houses at Universal Orlando Resort and Universal Studios Hollywood in September.
While the onscreen travails of Joel and Ellie take center stage in The Last of Us, as they did in the videogame, for Neil Druckmann and Craig Mazin, the translation to television afforded an opportunity to delve deeper into the larger struggle of survivors of the pandemic. The show’s third episode “Long, Long Time” expands the game’s story of survivalist Bill (Nick Offerman), who turns his hometown into an infected-proof compound, and who seems content to survive on his own. That is, until Frank (Murray Bartlett) gets stuck in one of Bill’s traps, and the pair fall delicately, and movingly, in love with one another.
Sophia Scorziello editor HBO’s “The Last of Us” took home the program of the year award at the 44th Banff World Media Festival. The series was awarded at the 2023 Rockie Award Gala on Tuesday evening alongside other individuals, programs, films and media outlets. The event is held annually in Banff, Alberta in the Canadian Rockies. Craig Robinson, actor and producer with credits on programs like “The Office,” “Brooklyn Nine-Nine” and “Killing It,” was awarded with the Sir Peter Ustinov Comedy Award. Robinson was also the host of the festival’s flagship awards program. The Grand Jury Prize was awarded to “Eternal Spring” and the Buffalo Rock Award went to “Star Trek” for its legacy in TV programming.
Editor’s note: The interviews conducted in this podcast were recorded at Deadline’s Contenders TV event, prior to the WGA strike starting on May 2.
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