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The Last of Us headliner Kaitlyn Dever on filming Abby ’s dreaming succession , the importance of demo another side to Abby , and more .
To say there was a weight onKaitlyn Dever’sshoulders would be an understatement . How can you not when meet Abby , one of the most polarizing quality in pop culture inThe Last of Us , but she ’s also in a unique place . She serves duple roles as co - protagonist and antagonist oppositeBella Ramsey’sEllie . No doubt , if season two plays out like the game , the two wo n’t likely partake any new view anytime soon for the balance of the season . The first layer coming off of Dever ’s shoulder is the obvious controversial second episode , " Through the Valley , " that sees Abby finally train her retaliation after five years on the original series lead , Joel Miller ( Pedro Pascal ) , killing him in front of Ellie . The actress spoke toEntertainment Weeklyabout finally getting to " talk about it , " the episode ’s opening that sees her confronting her doppelganger in a dream , a picture not in 2020’sPart II , that relives her trauma following Joel ’s mass murder of the Fireflies to save Ellie in the Salt Lake City hospital to close down season one .
The Last of Us Star Kaitlyn Dever on Building Abby’s Depth Early
" It ’s like , Icantalk about it , I ca n’t verbalise about it , but now I can talk about it , which is great news , " Dever said of Abby getting retaliation on Joel for killing her father , the doctor who was go down to perform fatal surgery on Ellie . " I can loosen a picayune . " At the showtime of the episode , Abby was score her way to her male parent as her younger counterpart , who was leaning against the rampart , warn her not to go inside the operative way before older Abby proceeded , " I had laryngitis , too , when I did that scene . So it was so intense , " Dever recalls . " But , yeah , it was a really sad prospect . It stop my ticker to have to shoot that . "
TheBooksmart(2019 ) andUnbelievablestar revealed she performed her younger counterpart ’s scene before her current incarnation , working the logistics with creatorCraig Mazin . " As an audience member , father to see this side of her is really important and really profound . That allows you to literally ill-treat inside Abby ’s brain . It just encapsulates everything that she ’s feeling for that scenery that comes after , " she said . " She so disadvantageously want her honest-to-god life back . She so severely wants the situation to not be what it is . That was the most important thing to me in playing that scene … is just need to make it all stop . I almost think that some part of her , too , thinks that she could have done something about it , or there ’s some survivor ’s guilt there . I think that ’s really , really powerful . "
Mazin and dealership creatorNeil Druckmann’snarrative changes to Abby early in time of year two reflect thatPart IIdoesn’t address much of the character ’s backstory until players are far inscrutable into her military campaign , as the game alternate between her and Ellie throughout . In hindsight , it might have been a mistake since , to work up , players had to take control of Abby when they were at their most apprehensive . " You play as Abby , so you forthwith form an empathic connection with her , " Druckmann said at an upshot in March before the time of year two premiere . " If we were to stick to a very similar timeline [ as the game ] , viewer would have to wait a very , very long time to get that setting . It would probably get flub between time of year , and we did n’t desire that . "
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