Pascal: I thought it was really useful to get a tonal understanding of the source material. Most of that is because of the voice that Craig wrote for Ellie that was directly from the game. It’s always the dream when you read a script, and you feel like they’re a part of you already. Ellie was someone that came very naturally to me. And I think that was really cool, to sort of have it all there for us. Neil being the creator of the story, the game and Craig being such a huge fan that together, they really brought the best of the game into the scripts and just expanded on what was already there. Ramsey: I mean, I think a lot of that work was done for is by Craig and Neil. How much for both of you did you want to draw from what had been crafted in the game with these characters versus making them your own? And then the world of “The Last of Us” opened up to me and I realized that I had been under its influence in ways I didn’t even know since its release in 2013. And then I just begged him to give me the job, basically, and he was foolish enough to do so.
I knew who Craig Mazin was, and was desperate to work with him. Pac Man.” I can’t even say that I’m good at it now. Pascal: I am really, really good at “Mrs. Had you played the game before you signed on?īella Ramsey: No. Past work: Pascal: “The Mandalorian,” “The Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent,” “Narcos,” “Game of Thrones.” Ramsey: “Catherine Called Birdy,” “Becoming Elizabeth,” “His Dark Materials,” “Game of Thrones” Pascal, Ramsey and their co-stars Gabriel Luna, Anna Torv, Merle Dandridge and Nico Parker explain to Variety how they brought their video-game characters to life and what to expect in the show. Together, they face monstrous, fungus-ridden “clickers” and transform their rocky relationship as total strangers into a father-daughter bond.
The show follows Joel (Pedro Pascal), a hard-bitten smuggler with a grief-stricken past who is charged with transporting headstrong teenager Ellie (Bella Ramsey), who’s never known a pre-infection world, across a decimated United States. 15, HBO’s live-action adaptation - created and executive produced by Neil Druckmann (who wrote and created the game) and Craig Mazin (of HBO’s Emmy-winning “Chernobyl”) - is already garnering rave reviews as a gripping interpretation of the game, at once faithful to its story and unafraid to expand upon and even change some key plot lines. The game presents a poignant and haunting tale of the human costs of survival when civilization collapses following a zombie outbreak caused by a parasitic fungus it’s regarded as one of the best video game stories of all time.
HBO is primed for another hit with “The Last of Us,” an adaptation of the mega-popular PlayStation video game from 2013.
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