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Pedro Pascal is in 'active denial' about 'The Last of Us' twist (exclusive)

Pedro Pascal opens up about 'The Last of Us' season 2's pivotal twist in an exclusive interview for EW's latest cover story.

Weeks before HBO aired a pivotal episode of The Last of Us season 2 — the one that kills off his character, Joel Miller, and alters the course of the story moving forward — Pedro Pascal contemplates what his plans will be for the moment that hour of television hits the airwaves. Showrunners Craig Mazin and Neil Druckmann were determined to adapt the core events of the Last of Us video games, which entail Joel slaughtering the Fireflies rebel group in order to save Ellie (Ramsey), even though her death would lead to a vaccine against the monster-spawning codryceps virus that destroyed the world. Even though there were so many individuals involved in that sequence — including Isabela Merced as Dina, Spencer Lord as Owen, Ariela Barer as Mel, Tati Gabrielle as Nora, and Danny Ramirez as Manny — Pascal describes the experience as if everything around faded away until it was just him and Dever.

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