The Last of Us Season 2 is all about revenge, and no one knows that better than Ellie (Bella Ramsey) and Abby (Kaitlyn Dever).
The entire season kicked off with Abby’s desire to avenge her father, the Firefly doctor whom Joel (Pedro Pascal) killed at the end of Season 1. But after she got her vengeance on Joel — emotionally breaking audiences everywhere in the process — she unknowingly started someone else’s revenge quest: Ellie’s.
As Ellie is primed to head down a darker, more violent path, Mashable Entertainment Reporter Belen Edwards asked Ramsey about the evolution of their performance, and how it may mirror Pascal’s in Season 1.
“Ellie really is becoming Joel in a certain way, and would hate that if you said it to her, because she thinks that she’s the opposite to him,” Ramsey said. “In fact, they’re kind of two sides of the same coin.”
Mashable also spoke to Dever about Abby’s headspace at the beginning of the season, in the wake of her father’s death — a headspace that echoes Ellie’s in the latter half of Season 2.
“She’s a little lost, she’s really broken,” Dever said. “I think that she’s just trying to make sense of what’s just happened to her.”
New episodes of The Last of Us Season 2 premiere on HBO and Max Sundays at 9 p.m. ET.
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