Content Warning: This article contains a discussion of suicide and features spoilers for Season 2, Episode 6 of "The Last of Us", entitled "Price".

You'd Think, by this point, that most actors will be pretty psyched to score a small Yet Pivotal Role on the HIT HBO SERIES "THE LAST OF US," What Itself is Based on A Hit Series of Video Games by Came out in 2013 and 2020. When it comes to Joe Pantoliano, Though - An Actor Known for "Bound," "The Matrix," and "The Sopranos" - He was apprehended to play the import "latest Game Character. We "with" this is us ". (To be So fair To G -Din Eyoi pants, this is understandable. Those titles are Really similar.)

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"I thought it was another show," this is us, "Pantoliano said Diversity In an interview with his episode "The Last of Us". "Ken Olin was executed (producer) on it. He's my old friend. And I thought," Oh, great, I love Ken! "Here's something: Not only was it" this is us "not for zombies, he ended his running in 2022. Fortunately, Pantoliano understood this: "Then, I read the material and I am like, this is a very challenge for a small part."

Pantoliano continued to say that, as someone a lot New in the world of "The Last of Us", he was deeply impressed by his short time in this post-apocalyptic world overwhelmed with zombies infected by the Cordyceps virus. "Well, you get the back story of the world and that led to this," Pantoliano told his introduction to the universe by the show -shoot Craig Mazin and Neil Drakman. He continued:

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"The ability to survive to this point, and then, when you see the consequences. I didn't get it visually, and then I got to the first day of work, and this beautiful forest - the way they burned it down, and the machines that fogged before, I felt so real. Most of the time, you are in the CGI set, Cold, you create the cold, right?

As for how much pantoliano knew about Eugene himself, he apparently entered Type of blind. "No, but it's a classic small part," Pantoliano said about the fact that Eugene is often mentioned during season 2 of the series. "The agent says, 'Listen, not a very big part, but they Chat To you all the time. "" He went so far as he said, "I was a complete virgin of the whole thing", referring to production by itself, which is makeup for special effects. "Artists and crafts and details - it's really something. And the time it takes to do it all!"