Season 2 ofThe Last of Usis approaching faster than a Clicker can run. Ahead of Season 2’s premiere on April 13,Pedro Pascal(who plays Joel Miller in the series) teased what fans can expect from the show’s return, including Joel’s fracturedrelationship with Ellie (Bella Ramsey)and a massive five-year time jump. Fans are just a few weeks away from diving back into their favorite bloody, violent, and depressing post-apocalyptic, zombie-filled world (why do we like this show?), and Season 2 will introduce us to even more violent characters for Joel and Ellie to contend for survival with. Kaitlyn Dever is playing Abby in the new season, a fan-favorite protagonist/antagonist from the second video game, who will have a major effect on Joel and Ellie’s relationship.
Appearing at a press conference forThe Last of UsSeason 2 (via Variety), Pedro Pascal addressed performing alongside Ramsey after the in-show time jump. While Pascal steered clear of spoilers regarding Abby in Season 2, he did reveal that another emotional scene from the video games between Joel and Ellie is coming in Season 2. “I feel like it was a beautiful setup by [showrunners] Craig [Mazin] and Neil [Druckmann] that the first thing that I got to shoot was just you and I and in kind of an intimate setting,” Pascal began, talking to his co-star at the press conference. He continued:
“There’s incredibly painful distance between the two of them and the playing of the scene, but we still got to be on set and f*ck around and laugh and stuff like that. And that was incredibly comforting, that was like coming home.”
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Without diving into spoilers, the ending ofSeason 1 took Joel down a very dark path.To play a character that has been mentally tortured by his own actions for the past five years, Pedro Pascal revealed that he went to some very dark and unhealthy places mentally. “My mindset was grateful to be back,” he began, continuing:
“And yet, at the same time, this experience, more than any other I’ve had, is hard for me to separate what the characters are going through and how it makes me feel, in a way that isn’t very healthy. And so I kind of feel their pain. I suppose I was in an unhealthy mindset.”
Pedro Pascal Explains Why ‘The Last of Us’ Is So Popular
Even Pedro Pascal joked about such a depressing and pessimistic show being immensely popular. Of course, there is the carry-over of the fandom from Naughty Dog’s insanely good video game series. But, Pascal thinksThe Last of Us' success is more than that.While the characters in the show are living in a fungal-infested hellscape, because we don’t personally have to go through it Pascal believes audiences love the catharsis of watching such a bleak show. He said:
“There’s a very healthy and sometimes sick pleasure in that kind of catharsis and a safe space to see human relationships under crisis and in pain and intelligently draw a political allegory, societal allegory, and base it off of the world that we’re living in.”
Season 2 ofThe Last of Uspremieres on April 13 on HBO and Max. New episodes will be released weekly. The series has already been renewed for a third season, which will adapt thesecond half ofThe Last of Us: Part IIvideo game.
Source:Variety
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