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The Last of Us’s Young Mazino Unpacks Jesse’s ‘Burden of Responsibility’
“There’s not always a reward at the end of that tunnel. Sometimes it’s just a bullet.”
Jesse has been trained to one day lead Jackson, is excited to have a baby on the way, and doesn’t hesitate to rush into an unknown situation to try and save his mentor, Tommy ( Gabriel Luna). Mazino exuded a similar pensiveness in the first season of Beef as the aimless gamer Paul, a role for which he received his first Emmy nomination and found himself referencing when reflecting on Jesse, whose absence looms large in the finale’s closing minutes. I was also starting to reference somebody I know, this Korean American guy who is an extreme outdoorsman, prior military, jumps off of helicopters, climbs ice mountains.
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