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How ‘The Last of Us’ Recreated the Game’s Iconic Museum and Built a Space Capsule for Joel and Ellie
"The Last of Us" production designer recreated the game's iconic museum and space capsule that Ellie and Joel explore during a flashback.
“The Last of Us” production designer Don Macaulay vividly recalls watching an emotional Neil Druckmann, who directed this week’s Joel (Pedro Pascal) and Ellie (Bella Ramsey) flashback episode, walk around the interior set of the natural history museum. While Season 2 has focused on dark cycles of violence and vengeance, this episode gives a rare glimpse into more tender moments between Joel and Ellie as they explore the Wyoming natural history museum like wide-eyed kids. Recreating the image of Ellie and Joel looking at the capsule with the ivy coming down through the skylight, as featured in the Season 2 trailer, was a specific moment that Macaulay and his team wanted to play on when lighting every section of the museum sequence.
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