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The Last of Us star Pedro Pascal reflects on Joel ’s human relationship with his brother , Tommy , and Ellie , and how they modify in Season 2 .

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When we last leftPedro Pascal’sJoel at the season one finale ofThe Last of Us , he made the foreboding decision to save Ellie ( Bella Ramsey ) from a fateful mathematical process that could have saved manhood from the on-going Cordyceps plague , but at the potential price of their friendship . Ellie was revealed to be resistant from the disease that go from corporal fluids and rearing photograph to spores , and a doctor had the key to extract that immunity but would have killed her in the process . Pascal spoke withVarietyat a conference about where Joel ’s headspace is in regard to the relationship with his buddy Tommy ( Gabriel Luna ) and Ellie .

The Last of Us Season 2: Pedro Pascal on Joel’s Relationships

Pascal offer a reference from when we see Joel and Tommy from time of year one to two , " I intend that there was just a very , very well - placed arc for us , " he say . " I started the season with [ Luna ] . We startle Season 1 together on D - Day , proper ? And so there was a kind of bonding , institution process , step into all of it . We had our rehearsals and pre - output . We die river raft . " Luna added , " We did go river rafting , Bow River , which was really gracious . "

The two remark how far along they had follow since cinematography start on the series , " I had you there when I feel like a lot of the flesh of my character set about to expose itself and got to be played , " Pascal said , addressing Luna . " So in Season 2 , it mat up like a real instinctive building of what we had established as character and as panorama partners . " Luna agree before adding , " I think when we first started , we had a really nice FaceTime call where I felt a very weird closeness with you . "

When it came to how Joel and Ellie ’s estrangement , " I experience like it was a beautiful apparatus by Craig [ Mazin ] and Neil [ Druckmann ] that the first thing that I get to fool was just you and I and in kind of an internal scope , " Pascal told Ramsey . " There ’s incredibly terrible distance between the two of them and the playing of the picture , but we still got to be on set and jazz around and laugh and gormandise like that . And that was incredibly comforting ; that was like coming home . "

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Pascal also explained how it was difficult to come apart the part and the humankind he ’s immersed in , " There ’s a very healthy and sometimes disgusted pleasure in that sort of abreaction and a safe distance to see human family relationship under crisis and in pain and intelligently draw a political emblem , societal allegory , and base it off of the universe that we ’re living in , " he said . For more , include co - starKaitlyn Dever’sAbby and Joel ’s protectiveness of Ellie , moderate out theinterview . The Last of UsSeason 2 premiere on April 13th on HBO and will be available to stream on Max .

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