Pedro Pascal talks major death in ‘The Last Of Us’

Major spoilers for The Last Of Us Season 2

Pedro Pascal sat down for an interview with Entertainment Weekly where he opened up about a major plot twist in The Last Of Us season 2.

The incident is the violent and brutal death of his character, Joel Miller.

"I'm in active denial," admitted the actor, "I realize this more and more as I get older, I find myself slipping into denial that anything is over. I know that I'm forever bonded to so many members of the experience and just have to see them under different circumstances, but never will under the circumstances of playing Joel on The Last of Us. And, no, I don't spend a lot of time thinking about it because it makes me sad."

"I was always sidestepping how I really felt, that in a big way my experience was coming to an end on the show," he explained. "I guess that was the strangest thing to step through because I felt so bonded to everyone in the show after going through the gauntlet of season 1 together, not just with Bella, but with the entire cast and crew. So to have this goodbye was very sad for me, and I had such a physical manifestation, a violent mirror of how sad it was for Joel to die. To be honest, it was quite dreamlike."

Recalling everyone’s reaction when he came out in the makeup for his last scene, he said, "[I] killed the vibe completely as soon as anyone set their eyes on me. This kind of shock and heartbreak… it was weird to be on the receiving end of that. It's like the extreme version of, 'Is there something on my face?' I really could see this sort of grief take over everyone's look in their eyes."

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