This article contains spoilers for the "price", the penultimate episode of Season 2 of "The Last of Us". Stop reading now if you haven't watched it - Spoilers lie forward!
It feels impossible to imagine a world where Eloel Miller, the original protagonist of the 2013 video game "The Last of Us" and the TV adaptation of the FBO 2023 (played by Troy Miller and Pedro Pascal, respectively), is still alive. What I mean by this is that, both in the game and in the show, Joel kind There are to die To drive the narrative for his surrogate daughter Eli, shown by Ashley Nsonson in the original games and white Ramsey in the show. According to the creator of the games and co-showner Neil Drakman, however, there is The world in which ELOEL may survive. However, as he explained to Alan Sepinwol for Rolling stoneHe and his co-showner Craig Mazin eventually decided against Elloel to survive a retaliatory attack by Abi Anderson (Caitlin Dever).
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"Yes, because we are talking about everything," Drakman told Sepinvol, when he asked him if they thought they were saved by Abby and Elloel for a later season. "We even discussed what if we did Kill Joel, just to interrogate it. Becauuse Everything Should Be on Table. Everything should be interrogated to make us / Even Discussed, Could we test this other story, Could we prolong this moment? This feeling that people have for Longer.
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So, as Sepinvol asked that came out of discussion about no Killing Joel? Did Drukman recall any specifics? "I did not, because it was a very short conversation that had no impact on us," the other hand. "Because we knew we were exploring something you know, we won't get much of this, and we don't."
Pedro Pascal had to come back to record the ELOEL retrospective scenes ... and the closure of his time on the last of us was hard
Neil Drrakman stepped into the director's chair for "Price" - marking his second time to do so on "The Last of Us" after the episode of the 1 "infected" season - and as he told Alan Sepinwall, the creatives of the show no Shoot any of ELOEL's retrospective scenes before Recording his death on the screenmeans that Pedro Pascal Whether They have to return to the set of the series to repeat his role the last time. "We missed Pedro for the episode (2), and then he went to work on another project," Drakmann revealed. When Sepinwal asked if he felt different when Pascal returned, his answer was measured:
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"Yes, although in the day-to-day, you would get it. But definitely, as we were getting Closer to the end, you can feel this parting of the Ways Coming. And then the last day, Specifically, it got really emotion emotion when. We finished the last shot and we hung out for a while and just hugged it out and chatted and reminisced. "
Not only that, but Drukman also knew well that the last environment with ELOEL and Eli in the television series-which shows So Wonderful and from Pascal and Bella Ramsey, two actors with obvious and obvious real-life chemistry and sweet relationships will be really difficult because of the work they would already put in their roles. "I knew because of their chemistry, because of what they brought, how painful this would be," Drakman said, talking about the fact that Eli of Pascal, Elloel and Ramsey, Eli have won audiences around the world.
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"And it should have been painful to tell this story," he continued. "If they had no chemistry, I would be worried about how we were telling this story. So, for me, it was more a question, that story could be complete, that story can live on our own. That's how we made the first game. But we put in some changes and changes that were preparing for the next story if we got a chance to tell it.
Filming the last scene between ELOEL and Eli was incredibly beautiful, according to Neil Drakman
Obviously, ELOEL did not die (in the hands of Abi in Season 2, Episode 2, "Through the Valley")And that's why we only see it through a retrospective in "Price", living through several previous birthdays of Eli and shows the ups and downs of their relationship. Neil Drakman said that filming this episode and with Pedro Pascal and Bella Ramsey is always intense, especially because of the real life of Ection, between the two and their mutual understanding of ELOEL and Eli (and their relationship).
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"It's such a joy. They're so talented," Drakmana imposed. "They Now Understand These Characters so much. Also to me personally ... I was very nervous. Game.
Plus, as Drukman noted, working out of movement-used for the "Last of Us" Games-enable a certain level of emotionality. "There are some moments in live action where you have happy accidents, as you can't plan something," he said before revealing a moving moment between Ramsey and Pascal organically happening in a scene where Elloel carries Eli in an abandoned space museum for her birthday. "When they are in the space capsule, and Elloel asks Eli how he did, and then you will see that he has this only beautiful smile on his face, and he turns, and see the shine of the tear in his wrinkles.
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The final of Season 2 of "The Last of Us" is broadcast on 25.05.2025, at 9 pm on HBO Max and HBO.
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