Pedro Pascal Breaks Silence on Joel’s Death in The Last of Us

Pedro Pascal hasn’t truly come to phrases with the demise of his The Last of Us personality Joel Miller — even supposing the episode used to be filmed 12 months in the past.

“I’m in active denial,” Pascal, 50, admitted to Entertainment Weekly in an interview printed on Sunday, April 20. “I realize this more and more as I get older, I find myself slipping into denial that anything is over.”

He persisted, “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.”

Pascal famous that he doesn’t “spend a lot of time thinking about” the display so as to offer protection to his emotional wellbeing.

So how has the actor — who performed the function because the display’s 2023 inception — stored his feelings buried?

“I was always sidestepping how I really felt, that in a big way my experience was coming to an end on the show,” he informed EW. “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.”

The actor mentioned it used to be a “very sad” good-bye.

“I had such a physical manifestation, a violent mirror of how sad it was for Joel to die,” Pascal persisted. “To be honest, it was quite dreamlike.”

The display’s landmark episode, titled “Through the Valley,” premiered on Sunday and confirmed Abby (Kaitlyn Dever) getting her violent revenge on Joel. After capturing him within the leg and beating him mindless with a golfing membership, Abby ended Joel’s lifestyles by way of stabbing him within the neck. Bella Ramsey’s personality, Ellie, appeared on as her surrogate father’s lifestyles got here to an finish.

When Pascal signed directly to play Joel, he at all times knew the nature’s destiny.

“It was just a matter of how and when,” he informed EW.

Both Pascal and Ramsey agreed that probably the most devastating a part of the episode wasn’t Joel’s demise — it used to be his ultimate motion.

Ramsey as Ellie is begging Joel to “get up” in his ultimate moments. Joel, just about on the finish of his lifestyles, makes an attempt to raise his hand towards her voice prior to Abby does the deed.

“I have no idea if it’s captured on camera, but [there’s] a subtle sense that Joel can hear her in the last breath of life that he has left in him,” Pascal famous. “He can hear her calling for him and hear that she’s in danger and wants to help her and is unable to lift even a finger to do so. I remember playing that, and that was really devastating.”

New episodes of The Last of Us premiere on HBO Sundays at 9 p.m. ET.