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Does Joel Die in ‘The Last of Us’ Season 2? Pedro Pascal Updates

Video game fans know what happens to Joel in the original storyline, so will the HBO series follow suit?

While speaking at Variety ‘s March 2025 press conference, Pedro refrained from disclosing any spoilers about Joel, but he noted that he was “grateful to be back and yet, at the same time, this experience, more than any other I’ve had, is hard for me to separate what the characters are going through and how it makes me feel, in a way that isn’t very healthy. … I feel like it was a beautiful setup by [show creators] Craig[ Mazin] and Neil[ Druckmann] that the first thing that I got to shoot was just you and I and in kind of an intimate setting. The cast has remained tight-lipped about Joel’s fate, but fans of the original video game series know that the character eventually dies.

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