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Stop reading right now if you haven’t watched the premiere of Season 2 from “The Last of Us,” “Future Days.” Spoilers lie before them.
The second season of “The Last of Us” is now underway. That means We have officially met with Abby. Played by Kaitlyn Dever, Abby helps start the TV Show’s Season 2 premiere “Last of Us”, “the future,” and us immediately Learn that she was hunting Joel Miller (Pedro Pascal) to avenge the fire extinguishes who murdered at their temporary hospital at the end of season 1 (who, as a reminder, was just to save his delegate daughter, immune survivor Bella Ramsey Ellie). According to Dever, she was actually a potential candidate to play Ellie … and when creators Neil Druckmann and Craig Mazin began to work on the second season of their show, she didn’t have to audition to play Abby. Dever actually told Hollywood reporter Most of the new -entrants in the season of Sophomore did not have to audition. Instead, their roles were structured around them.
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“I had met Neil years ago to play Ellie possibly,” Dever remembered. (Undoubtedly, Naughty Dog fans remember that Dever borrowed her voice to the company’s game “Uncharted 4,” so she worked directly with Druckmann before joining a 2 “The Last of Us” season). “I’m still shocked to this day it happened this way.” Dever also shared that she, Young Mazino, and Isabela Merced – not all played new “characters” in “The Last of Us” season 2, with Mazino and Merced playing, respectively, Jesse and Dina – after an audition for their roles.
“They are very confident storytellers,” added Dever, referring to Mazin and Druckmann. “They know who is right for their story, and they have so much confidence in that. It’s very useful when you’re doing something like this, because it allows for freedom, and for feeling safe to play these characters.”
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Kaitlyn Dever understands Abby’s character very well – and finds her joyful
Abby is a big character (and, unfortunately, controversial) in “The Last of Us Part II,” So Kaitlyn Dever has a big challenge ahead of her on a second season “The Last of Us.” However, based on the short time we see on the screen in the premiere, she is more than up to the task. “The way into Abby is to know how grief feels and how loss affects you, especially just after that,” Dever told Thr. “This shock is lonely and this desire to make it all disappear.”
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Strength also tackled Abby’s great threat in “Future Days” – which is when she tells her friends (in particular, Lord Spencer Owen’s character) she wants to kill Joel, but explains that she wants to do it “slowly.” As Dever said, he saw that line just as ominous as everyone watching. “Glow“Dever said about Abby’s threat.” She is a cold ice queen! “
Still, at the end of the day, Dever sees the true humanity in Abby, a woman mourning for losing her community (and her father) who does not know Joel’s decision and only considers him a vicious mass murderer. “She needs something to improve it all,” Dever said about Abby’s mission as it applies to Joel. “And in that moment, the only thing she can think of is revenge. She’s heartbreaking, she’s sad, she’s missing and she’s trying to lift the pieces.”
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“When she walks into a room, she comes through with this intense strength,” continued Dever, talking to how terrifying Abby is in the last “universe of us”. “This is what makes it terrifying and terrifying. But it’s all because of how much pain she has gone through.”
Abby’s journey will continue Season 2 “The Last of Us” Every Sunday on HBO and Max at 9 pm EST.
