The Last of Us Season 2 Cast Adds Six Names Ahead of April Premiere

HBO’s The Last of Us Season 2 is filling retired its formed database with six much names up of its premiere this April.

Details connected however the live-action adaptation volition grow connected the root worldly were revealed by Variety today. The afloat database of actors coming to the amusement includes Joe Pantoliano (Memento, The Matrix), Alanna Ubach (Euphoria, Bombshell), Ben Ahlers (The Gilded Age, Chilling Adventures of Sabrina), Hettienne Park (Don’t Look Up), Robert John Burke (RoboCop 3), and Noah Lamanna (Star Trek: Strange New Worlds).

The last-minute additions to the show’s upcoming retelling of The Last of Us Part II uncover the names that volition play some characters included successful the archetypal games and caller faces, too. Newcomer Pantoliano, for example, is acceptable to play Eugene. You’d beryllium forgiven for forgetting that Eugene already exists successful The Last of Us beingness arsenic Ellie and Dina’s pot-smoking friend. He primitively lone exists arsenic small much than a infinitesimal successful the lengthy single-player sequel, but successful The Last of Us Season 2, the quality volition get a spot much surface time.

Showrunners Craig Mazin and Neil Druckmann explained to Variety that, successful a mode that is akin to what gaming fans saw with Bill successful Season 1, audiences tin expect Eugene’s inheritance to beryllium expanded upon successful Season 2.

“I get excited erstwhile I spot these opportunities,” Druckmann said. “I’m like, ‘Oh, I don’t cognize Eugene that well!’ The communicative we told [in the game] was somewhat superficial. The mode this quality comes successful truly gets to the bosom of Joel and Ellie and their relationship.”

Burke, meanwhile, has been tapped to play The Last of Us Part II barroom proprietor and bigot sandwich-giver, Seth. Lamanna rounds retired the formed of acquainted faces arsenic Kat, who is said to person dated Ellie earlier The Last of Us Part II’s communicative begins. Meanwhile, Ubach, Ahlers, and Park person been picked to play caller characters named Hanrahan, Burton, Elise Park, respectively.

The radical of caller faces joins the already stacked formed for The Last of Us Season 2, including Pedro Pascal arsenic Joel, Bella Ramsey arsenic Ellie, Isabela Merced arsenic Dina, Kaitlyn Dever arsenic Abby, and Gabriel Luna arsenic Tommy. The showrunners had antecedently suggested that the events of Part II would beryllium told passim aggregate seasons, truthful expect much surprises to beryllium revealed erstwhile arsenic episodes rotation out.

The Last of Us Season 2 brings the events of The Last of Us Part II into the live-action beingness April 13. For much connected HBO’s follow-up season, you tin work up connected why it sounds similar the amusement is primed to archer its communicative implicit the people of 4 seasons. You tin besides cheque retired much from Druckmann, who says Season 2 volition diagnostic immoderate “pretty brutal” chopped contented from the archetypal sequel video game.

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