Pedro Pascal on the last shocking episode of us: “I am in active negation”; Beautiful ramsey “sobbing” reading it

Spoiler in front for The last of us Season 2 episode 2.

I’m not sure how anyone can do it The last of us Season 2, episode 2 without reduced eyes or screaming on the screen. I just looked at him, and even if I knew what he was coming, he still hit as a fist of bowels from a clicker.

Joel’s brutal death was not only brutal and was difficult to look at and, apparently, we are not alone. Pedro Pascal AND Beautiful ramsey They are right there with us, hearing every part of the crack.

Pascal, who gave Joel wonderfully life with a quiet force and profound emotional layers, knew that his time on the show was limited. But this has not made the shooting easier.

“It is not as they said:” Hey, we kill you at the beginning of season 2, “he said to Entertainment Weekly.” But it has always been an understanding that would have remained faithful to the material of origin in a specific way and that, let’s say, the practical and exclusive obligation would have been for season 1. It was only a matter of how and when. “

The episode closely follows the events of The last part of us II video game. In the series, Abby (Kaitlyn Dever) reveals that he is the daughter of Dr. Joel killed in the final of the season 1. Then he makes him pay for this, violently.

We are talking about pistols in the leg, an evil beating with a golf club and a final killing graphic without cutting. Pascal recalled the experience of the filming of the scene with Dever:

“Meeting Kaitlyn was fantastic … it’s ironic that something so violent and tragic among the characters can immediately bind you to the actor.” And the moment he entered the set soaked in the blood? “It was not of repulsion but of crack.”

Speaking of the official HBO after the show, Pascal shared how deeply respects the emotional reaction of the fans.

“I have nothing more than respect for the level of investment that people have … I think it is incredibly painful for people and this is obviously a brilliant result of the narrative.” However, he is struggling to let himself go. “I am in an active negation.

“I know that I am forever linked to so many members of the experience … but I will never do it in the circumstances of interpreting Joel The last of us. And no, I don’t spend much time thinking about it because it makes me sad. “

For Ramsey, saying goodbye to Joel was equally overwhelming. He said: “I knew Joel would have died but reading it in the script that I was afraid of going to that little … and I cried. In reality I sobbed my bowl. It is the first time I cried from reading a piece of writing.”

As for the creative decision to snatch the emotional AID Band at the beginning of the season, co-creator Craig Mazin He said: “There is a danger of tormenting people. It’s not what we want to do.

“If people know that it is coming, they will begin to feel tormented … our instinct was to make sure that when we do it, we felt natural in history and it was not a meta-function from us that we wanted to disturb ourselves.”

Mission accomplished. This episode was a complete emotional demolition. And while it hurts as hell to say goodbye to Joel, it cannot be denied that it was performed with rough and heartbreaking brilliance.