The actor, also an interpreter of Din Djarin within the series The Mandalorian, is very fond of the figure of the HBO series.
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The Last of Us is the popular video game created by Naughty Dog and launched for PlayStation 3 (at least initially) in 2013. The work, set in a post-apocalyptic future, sees humanity devastated by a terrible virus that has decimated a large part of the world's population, with many infected around and some violent humans trying to survive in a beastly world. Recently, among other things, the video game has been transposed in the form of a TV series thanks to HBO, which has chosen in particular Craig Mazin (Chornobyl, The Hunter, and The Ice Queen) and Neil Druckmann (already creator of the original video game ) to bring this new product to streaming. That said, we're about to make a big SPOILER related to the ending of the making so if you don't want to know anything, we don't advise you to go ahead.
The Last of Us ended, with the first season, on March 12, 2023
The Last of Us, like the video game, has a truly traumatic conclusion. Once they arrive at the hospital run by the Lights, Joel (played by Pedro Pascal) consciously chooses to save Ellie (played by Bella Ramsey) from certain death, given that, to save humanity from the virus, doctors would have had to investigate with the brain matter of the girl. This a partly questionable choice of the man, which however is perfectly consistent with his character and also with the new affection he feels for the young woman. Without then considering that this choice was also considered because he believes, in his heart, that such animal humanity probably does not deserve such a second chance. In a recent interview for Yahoo! Entertainment, Pascal himself explained that he wanted to distance himself from the choice of his character and, simply, rather than posing the ethical problem, he really suspended the judgment because it was too complex.
I feel protected by what the conversation is in a way. And I think personally I wasn't really ready for it to end, so I kind of kept my distance from its ending in a way. It didn't encroach on my experience in terms of what people's opinions are for or against, in terms of a very specific decision that the character makes. I guess I'm actively ignorant of how everyone feels about this, but it wasn't too hard to be if that makes any sense. No one yelled at me on the street. Or was it like, 'How could you do that?'