The Emotional And Icy Challenges That HBO's The Last Of Us Cast Faced With Episode 8
The latest episode of HBO's The Last of Us takes Bella Ramsey's Ellie through the winter chapter of the first game where she's on her own and trying to keep herself and Joel (Pedro Pascal) alive. However, this will be their greatest challenge yet.
At the end of Episode 6, we find Joel having been accidentally stabbed and Ellie is trying to save him, with Episode 7 being a flashback to the last time Ellie experienced loss. In Episode 8, Ellie is fending for herself as she kills a deer, and stumbles upon the small town of Silver Lake led by the ultra-religious David, played by Scott Shepard (A Bridge of Spies, El Camino: A Breaking Bad Movie).
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This episode goes hand-in-hand with Episode 7 as maybe the most faithful adaptation of the game, but the challenges the cast faced to make the episode were anything but easy.
«We're shooting in February, in Calgary, [it] was freezing,» said Ramsey on the Inside The Episode featurette. «Obviously, also holding a freaking rifle up for a five-minute scene. It was tricky.»
Pascal recalls how during filming he was constantly bombarded with snow, which mirrors what happens in the game during this time as Joel makes his way to Ellie and the enemies are hidden by the snowfall.
«There were three or four house-size wind machines that were just pummeling me with snow,» the actor laughed. «Yeah, so that was hard.»
Showrunner Craig Mazin said that this episode is all about deprivation and how
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