The Last Of Us HBO's Child Clicker Was A Nine-Year-Old Contortionist
Episode five of HBO's The Last Of Us aired earlier than usual last week to avoid competing with Sunday night's Super Bowl. If you've still not had the chance to watch the latest episode of the show, stop reading now as there are a lot of spoilers ahead. Starting right now with a little extra information on how exactly the showrunners managed to make that child clicker look so damn scary.
Ellie scrambles into the back of a car as infected, clickers, and one big bloater cause chaos around her. What she wasn't expecting when she did that was a child clicker to force itself in through the same window and eerily crawl over the seats of the vehicle towards her. Bending and contorting its limbs as it moved towards Ellie, the reason the scene looked so real was because it was real.
The clicker who played the child that almost ends Ellie really was a nine-year-old named Skye Newton. Not only that, but Craig Mazin told Variety (thanks, Twinfinite) that the young actor was also a contortionist. A promising young gymnast who clearly has at least a couple of potential career paths ahead of her, and ended her time on screen in The Last Of Us by leaping on Kathleen and tearing her apart.
If you watched episode five and marveled at its CGI, you'll be shocked to hear most of what you saw was actually created using practical effects. All of the clicker makeup was real with the actors having eyeholes in their masks so they could see. However, for close-up shots, like the one of Newton in the car, the show's make-up artists created plugs for those eyeholes meaning the actor wouldn't have been able to see anything as she crawled over the seats.
The latest episode of The Last Of Us was clearly the biggest undertaking by those who created the
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