If you are an HBO subscriber then you may want to check out a bonus episode of The Last of Us. Making of The Last of Us is now available, a 31-minute behind-the-scenes documentary showing how the record breaking show was created. There’s no news on a release date for those on Sky in the UK but I would expect it to appear at some point.
Cast members Gabriel Luna, Anna Torv, Pedro Pascal, Merle Dandridge, Bella Ramsey, Rutina Wesley, Ashley Johnson, Jeffrey Pierce, and Storm Reid feature along with executive producers Craig Mazin and Neil Druckmann from Naughty Dog.
Gabriel Luna, who plays Tommy in The Last of Us has revealed he played both games back to back and the story of Part II was very much in his mind during the filming of the first season.
“You never want to assume you’re gonna get a Season 2, but considering it’s probably the biggest show in the world and they renewed us for Season 2, it’s probably good I have a head start thinking about it,” he said in an interview at the SXSW Conversation.
“The idea of everything that happens in ‘Part II’ was always ever-present in my mind. When working on the story we’ve told thus far, you gotta consider where you’re going with all the peaks and valleys. You don’t want play the end, but you certainly want to keep it in mind as you’re rolling forward and building the character,” he continued.
“There’s a lot of peaks and there’s some deep, deep valleys. As much as Tommy is an evolved person, and he’s evolving, there’s certainly a de-evolution that happens in ‘Part II.’ Which is probably the extent I can say about it.”
SPOILERS FOR THE FINAL EPISODE AND PART 1 AHEAD!
Ashley Johnson, who plays Ellie in the game and Anna, Ellie’s mother in the show, and also joined the HBO podcast that
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