This news contains spoilers‘The last of Us’ has reached its point of no return. Five years after leaving players in shock, The most shocking turn of the saga has shaken the viewers of the series with the second episode of the second season. In this installment, which can be seen in Spain through Max, the infected have left their hibernation to attack Jackson, but The greatest conflict has not been in that pitched battle, but in a house on the outskirts where Joel has been beaten until death.
Before reaching that point, the character embodied by Pedro Pascal He has crossed with Abby, who had sworn to end his life. After attracting, together with Dina, to the shelter in which her classmates were, the young woman has already to torture him to confess what was due so much viciousness: Joel had killed his father, the doctor who had to operate Ellie at Salt Lake City. And, so that everything had an even more tragic look, Ellie has arrived at the last moment and has witnessed the wild murder of his father figure.
Pedro Pascal in the second season of ‘The Last of Us’
The reaction of those involved
The shocking sequence was recorded in March 2024 over two days, during which its three main protagonists had to deal with many emotions. “I am in the negation phase“Pedro Pascal explains in an interview granted to Entertainment Weekly. In addition, the actor has put himself in the skin of the spectators when analyzing the scene in the Making of Officer:”I only have respect for how involved people can be with a video game or a series. I have experienced it too. I have released books for the deep impact they have had on me. If it is so painful for people, It is the merit of the narrative“.
As for the link with his murder in fiction, Pascal is completely linked to Kaitlyn Dever: “Knowing Kaitlyn was incredible. It is very ironic that something so violent and tragic among the characters immediately connects you as actors. “In turn, the newcomer to the series expresses how filming lived:”Being able to do it with Pedro is the dream of an actor. I felt very well cared for working with him“.
Even so, to dever was a challenge especially complicated both for the content of the script and for its personal situation, since A few weeks before he suffered his mother’s death. “The days before that scene They were horrible“, Comment on Entertainment Weekly. In fact, the Showrunner Craig Mazin did everything possible so that he did not feel pressed:” We told him to take his time. Although the series cares a lot, it is a series. I will not interrupt someone’s grieving process“.
Kaitlyn Dever plays an enraged Abby in ‘The Last of Us’
For his part, Bella Ramsey, who was aware since the beginning that Joel had the days counted, could not avoid the shock of being wrapped in that sequence: “I knew that Joel was going to die from the first season, but When reading it on the script, although I knew it was coming and feared, I started crying. It was the first time I cried when reading a text. “
“Pedro and I have interpreted that dynamic and We felt as a father and daughter somehow. My reaction to that ended was somewhat gradual. Also for knowing that It was the end of my work with Pedro In this way, “he adds, to what Pascal responds with enthusiasm for the way in which Ramsey has taken the reins:”I felt a kind of pride when observing how it easily fit into a leadership position“.
