Pedro Pascal is in Season 2 more than people…
Spoilers forward for the second episode of “The Last of Us” Season 2.
It’s the final of Pedro Pascal.
During the second episode of “The Last of Us” Season 2 (that aired Sunday, April 20) the Emmy profitable HBO drama did its darkest and most stunning transfer but: it killed its primary character and largest star, Joel (Pedro Pascal).
During a pre-season interview with The Post, co-creator Craig Mazin in contrast it to when Ned Stark (Sean Bean) received killed on “Game of Thrones.”
“If you look at ‘Game of Thrones,’ like everybody, I was so shocked when Ned Stark got his head chopped off. I couldn’t believe it,” Mazin solely advised The Post. “That incident never goes away,” he added, hinting that Joel’s presence will proceed to be felt on the show in a related manner.
Pedro Pascal and Bella Ramsey in “The Last of Us.” Liane Hentscher/HBO
Pedro Pascal in “The Last of Us” Season 2. Liane Hentscher/HBO
Mazin continued, “So, [Ned Stark’s] character is there, over everything from that first season [of ‘Game of Thrones’], all the way to the final moments of the last one – because that informs everything. It changes everyone, and people keep coming back to that story over and over.”
Based on a fashionable video sport of the identical title, “The Last of Us” is set in a dystopian future the place society has damaged down, there are zombie-like creatures, and gruff smuggler Joel (Pascal) has fashioned a pseudo father/daughter relationship with teen lady Ellie (Bella Ramsey).
Joel was killed by the new Season 2 character, Abby (Kaitlyn Dever).
He had beforehand killed Abby’s father during his efforts to guard Ellie. So, Abby killed Joel as revenge. After Joel saved her life, she stabbed him in the neck whereas Ellie watched, crying. Ironically, since Abby killed Joel as revenge for him killing her dad, Ellie then swore that she’d kill Abby and her pals, as revenge for them killing Joel.
Pedro Pascal in “The Last of Us” Season 2. Liane Hentscher/HBO
Francesca Orsi, Neil Druckmann, Bella Ramsey, Pedro Pascal, Craig Mazin, Casey Bloys, Carolyn Strauss attend HBO’s “The Last of Us” Season Two Los Angeles Premiere at TCL Chinese Theater on March 24, 2025 in Hollywood, California. FilmMagic for HBO
For this purpose, Abby is a polarizing character.
When requested if Mazin and his co-creator Neil Druckmann took any measures to make sure that viewers wouldn’t dislike Abby, Mazin mentioned, “People will and won’t like things. That’s fine. Neil and I didn’t really want to do anything to, say, address feedback as much as reinforce that character in this medium, which requires some different things.”
He defined that in the video sport, people play as Abby, “so you connect to her right away, because you are her. You’re trying to keep yourself alive along with her, as you’re moving her around.”
Mazin added, “Well, that’s not the case for us in the show. So, right off the bat, we thought it was important for people to know, who is she? What does she want? What happened to her?”
When requested if he was involved about shedding the show’s huge star in Pascal, Mazin advised The Post, “I am a huge ‘Game of Thrones’ fan. And I always felt like the star of ‘Game of Thrones’ was ‘Game of Thrones.’ And so many characters came in, and so many characters died. And, if you watched our first season, my God, people were dying left and right. Some people died within 20 minutes.”
Director Craig Mazin attends “The Last Of Us” Season Two UK Premiere at Vue West End on April 10, 2025 in London, England. Getty Images
Pedro Pascal in “The Last of Us.” Liane Hentscher/HBO
He defined that in his view, “The story, the world– that is the star.”
But, Mazin additionally teased that regardless of Joel’s death, he and Ellie “spend quite a bit of time together in this season…more than people might think.”
Season 2 of “The Last of Us” picked up 5 years after the occasions of Season 1. So this means that Pascal may proceed to be on the show, if there are flashbacks to that five-year period between seasons.
Since the connection between Joel and Ellie was the center of the show in Season 1, when requested what the center of the show is after Joel is gone, Mazin mentioned, “still the relationship between Joel and Ellie…it [is] the kind of thing that is present throughout everything. Even when they’re not together onscreen… the things that happened with them in this season ripple out and echo forth across everything.”
He mentioned that it exhibits in Ramsey’s efficiency, the place he may inform that for Pascal’s absence, “the missing was real.”
The creator mentioned that when Ramsey was performing in scenes with out Pascal, “It’s not just, ‘I wanna be here with Joel right now.’ It’s also like, ‘hey, I’d like to be here with Pedro right now.’ That kind of bond between them is so remarkable.”
Bella Ramsey and Pedro Pascal on the Los Angeles Premiere Of “The Last Of Us” Season 2 held on the TCL Chinese Theatre IMAX on March 24, 2025 in Hollywood, Los Angeles, California. Xavier Collin/Image Press Agency/MEGA
Pedro Pascal and Bella Ramsey in “The Last of Us.” HBO
Joel’s death could not come as a shock to many viewers, because it additionally occurred in the hit video sport that the show is primarily based on. It’s one of pop-culture’s extensively identified open secrets and techniques.
“For me and for Neil, we’re not so concerned about people knowing something. Or, something coming to pass in the show that happened in the game, and people going, ‘Oh, well, yeah, I knew about that,’” Mazin defined.
“Because we’re not really a mystery; this isn’t a whodunit. What this show is about are relationships.”
The Emmy-winning “Chernobyl” author and producer added, “And so the question is, ‘How are we going to experience any event that happens in the show through a relationship? What does it mean for these people going forward?’ Not just for this season. Assuming things go well, for some seasons to come.”
Pedro Pascal on the Los Angeles Premiere Of “The Last Of Us” Season 2, TCL Chinese Theater, California, on March 25, 2025. Thompson | Broadimage/Shutterstock
“The Last of Us” has already been renewed for a Season 3.
When requested how many seasons he sees the show persevering with for – particularly contemplating the loss of Pascal– Mazin mentioned, (*2*)
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