Seriously, stop reading this now if you haven’t watched “Through the Valley”, the second episode of season 2 of “The Last of Us”. Spoilers are in front. You were notified!
Anyone who watched “Through the Valley”, the historic episode of “The Last of Us” – HBO’s adaptation of the Universally acclaimed game series of Naughty Dog – is probably still in shock from the major event that occurs at the end of the state. As in the sequence of 2020 video games “The Last of Us Part II”, Abby (Kaitlyn Dever), whose father was the victim of the murderous unleashing of Joel (Pedro Pascal) through a rebellious hospital against the fight against the series, brutally ensuring the man she has been chased for years. (That said, the show considerably composes violence by leaving Abby’s final blow with the kind authorization of a shredded golf club integrated into the bloody neck of Joel.)
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Nick Romano de Entertainment Weekly spent time on the set while this episode was made, and when he spoke to the showrunner Craig Mazin, who heads the series with Neil Druckmann of Naughty Dog, Mazin said that the most difficult part to shoot on this scene had in fact everything to do with Bella Ramsey, the actor who played the daughter of Joel “The most difficult part was to watch Bella watch it happens,” Mazin told Romano before speaking to the work relationship built throughout the show by Pascal and Ramsey. “Pedro and Bella are extraordinarily close,” continued Mazin:
“They worked with the hand in GLOVE, they carefully care about each other. If you are going to pretend to be at this time [Ellie’s] Feel there and then this rage … It is not calculated or synthetic. It was difficult to feel as if we were breaking something that we all spent so much time building and doing work. “”
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Bella Ramsey and Pedro Pascal revealed that this last scene of us was difficult for both
As Bella Ramsey said to Nick Romano in the article, they had an extremely visceral reaction to simply see the script for “Through the Valley” – which takes place in their dynamic and heartbreaking performance in the episode. “I have never cried up reading a piece of writing before, but I had such a gastral reaction,” she thought. “It is almost as if we had played this dynamic, me and Pedro, for a year, and it looks like a father in one way or another. I think that my reaction to this finished being was a fairly progressive feeling. Knowing also that it would be the end of Pedro and the United States working together.”
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Pedro Pascal, not surprisingly, accepted; Anyone who saw the press tour for one or the other season of “The Last of Us” knows that Ramsey and Pascal have formed a soft link by playing the family. So what Pascal feels about the bloody and violent death of Joel? “I am in the active denial,” admitted Pascal. “I realize more and more as I get older, I find myself denying that everything is over. 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 go in the circumstances to play Joel on ‘the Last of Us”.” Pascal when it makes me sad. “And no, I don’t spend much time that it makes me sad.”
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Not only that, but Pascal – who, after playing the Oberyn Martell condemned on “Game of Thrones” and is therefore no stranger to die brutally on HBO – said that he was proud to watch Ramsey occupy the production. “Bella was never my child, but there is an obvious parental dynamic between the characters of Joel and Ellie,” said Pascal. “I felt this kind of pride with which I had nothing to do with, but I was able to observe how efforts they entered in a leadership position.”
Craig Mazin and Kaitlyn Dever knew that this last moment of us was right – but felt anxiety with regard to fans’ reactions
At the time when Nick Romano spent time on the set of “The Last of Us”, Craig Mazin reluctantly said that he feared that the Internet explodes essentially after the episode was finally broadcast. “I feel like I’m going to be [hiding] Under my sheets that night, “he said at the time. Romano finally followed with Mazin when the episode was Located to be broadcast – a certain time after filming – and it had a slightly more measured answer:
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“I feel this strange sense of guilt, but also a feeling of pride because I think we did something remarkable here. I think we have done something very overwhelming that will deserve the attention and interest of people for the seasons to come. I suppose that if there is one thing I would like people to know, that evening, I will watch it. [if] They are upset, I understand. We don’t do it because we like to upset people. We do it because this story echoes life, and life unfortunately includes that. “”
Kaitlyn Dever also had to adopt a fairly metric approach to his character violently murdered Joel Fans of fans, in particular after the release of the reaction received by Laura Bailey after “The Last of Us Part II” in 2020 (Bailey portrayed Abby in the video game in the voiceover and the motion capture). “I take all this as it happens,” said Dever. “Honestly, I don’t know what to do. I don’t know how to plan.” Frankly, how could we? “I don’t know how people will react,” continued actress “Bookmart” and “Apple Cider Vinegar”:
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“I hope that people will appreciate what I did with the role, and that’s all I can really do. I feel good to sit in this space just because I really have no control. It is done. What I did is there; it will happen. I think that by playing the role, I obviously wanted to do the playing character, but also bring my authenticity to the role and humanization of the best way.
Hold out should Be proud; It offers electrifying performance in this episode alongside Bella Ramsey and Pedro Pascal, and it is easy to imagine that all three endured a little during the shooting. “The Last of Us” broadcasts new episodes every Sunday at 9 p.m. HNE on Max and HBO.
