The story is set in a post-apocalyptic 2033 where the human population has been decimated by a fungal-brain infection that turns the infected into blind but networked mutant cannibals.
With an estimated US$100 million budget, its nine-episode first season was filmed in Alberta, Canada. Now, as streaming platforms snatch up long-running videogame titles to turn into genre content – or, in some cases, buy game-development companies – The Last of Us arrives as HBO’s first big drama of 2023. Some 30 million copies of the game’s various versions have been sold since the first was released for the PlayStation 3 in 2013, with a PS5 iteration released a few months ago. Though Pascal says he had some teenage nephews who freaked out when he told them he might be in a The Last of Us series. Neither Pascal nor Ramsey knew much about it before auditioning. Those names ringing any bells will depend on your familiarity with The Last of Us, the survival thriller video game considered one of the best ever. And as with their Star Wars and Thrones roles, their new characters come with in-built pop-culture kudos and plastic figurines.īella Ramsey and Pedro Pascal star in HBO’s first big drama of 2023. Now the pair are starring together in another show that puts them at risk of again dying in not a nice way. For English teenager Ramsey, there have been more period productions like Becoming Elizabeth and the lead in the charming medieval comedy feature Catherine Called Birdy, playing a character even more precocious than Thrones’ Lyanna Mormont. For Chilean-American Pascal, that meant lead roles in Narcos and the title role in the hit Star Wars spin-off The Mandalorian. Still, even if both made grim exits, Thrones boosted their careers. “My head was well squished by the time you showed up,” Pascal says to Ramsey as the jovial pair share a Zoom press call about their new show.
Both were crushed to death by giant creatures. But their characters had something in common. Pedro Pascal and Bella Ramsey starred in different seasons of Game of Thrones and never met. This story was published in the January 14 issue of the Listener and republished as Melanie Lynskey has been nominated for two Emmys, including guest actress in a drama for The Last of Us. New Zealander Melanie Lynskey plays a revolutionary leader named Kathleen who wasn’t in the game.
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