(This article contains spoilers from ‘The Last of Us’ 2×02)
There is a before and after in The Last of Us With what happens to Joel in the second part, and the players knew it. We had the doubt of whether, like Neil Druckmann and Craig Mazin They plan to extend the adaptation one more season, it would happen something later: perhaps at the end of the second installment that began recently in HBO. But the drivers of this adaptation of video games of Naughty Dog They have not lost time.
So in the second episode of the new season, entitled Through the valleyhave recreated the traumatic event that happened in the first hours of the game of The Last of Us: Part 2. Joel (Pedro Pascal) has died at the hands of Abby (Kaitlyn Dever), In revenge for having killed his father in the previous season. This changes everything: from now on Ellie (Bella Ramsey) He will go in search of the murderer wanting to avenge while trying to alleviate his anguish for not being able to reconcile with Joel before he died.
But, above all, what changes is that Pascal has ceased to be a regular actor in The Last of Us. Your character will reappear in some other Flashback later (there is still to clarify what happened exactly for Ellie to get angry with her), but Joel will no longer be a protagonist. It is a turning point for the series and for Pascal’s career, which has reflected on it in an interview with Entertainment Weekly.
“It’s April 20. If we were in the 90s would be placed “initially joked in relation to the fact that 4-20 is The Annual Cannabis Partyand also the day HBO premiered the last episode.
Pascal admits that it cost him a lot to recover after having recorded that scene, because it means saying goodbye to a character who has come to love very much. “I’m in State of denial. I realize this more and more as I aged, I fall into the denial that something ends. ”
“I know that I am forever united so many members of the experience and that I only have to do with them in other circumstances, but I will never do it in the circumstances of interpreting Joel in The Last of Us. And no, I don’t spend much time thinking about it because it saddens me. “Pascal says he didn’t want to face him yet.” I have always eluded what I really felt, that my experience in the series was coming to an end. “
“I suppose it was the strangest thing, because I felt very close to everyone after having passed together for the first season, not only with Bella, but with all the cast and team. So this farewell was very sad, and had a physical manifestation, and A violent mirror How sad it was for Joel to die. To be honest, it was quite dreamlike. ”
Pascal recalled how transcendental it was when he appeared on the set with his bloody makeup (product of the blows he receives at the hands of Abby), and has emphasized a very delicate point of the scene.
“I have no idea if he is captured by the camera, but there is a subtle feeling that Joel can hear Ellie in the last breath of life that she has left. He can hear her calling her and hear that she is in danger and wants to help her and is unable to move a finger to do it. I remember interpreting that, And it was really devastating”
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