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Kaitlyn Dever 'Couldn't Watch' Pedro Pascal and Bella Ramsey's Final Moment in ‘The Last of Us': 'I Don't Know How You Guys Did That'
After landing 16 Emmy nominations for season two of The Last of Us, its stars and creative team took a look back at the emotional season at HBO Max's Nominee Celebration on Sunday. Pedro Pascal, Bella Ramsey, Kaitlyn Dever, Joe Pantoliano and editor Timothy Good joined co-creators Craig Mazin and Neil Druckmann at the event, with the season's second episode — which sees Dever's Abby brutally murder Pascal's main character, Joel — the subject of much of the conversation. More from The Hollywood Reporter Emmy Predictions via Feinberg Forecast: Scott's Latest Take as Final Voting Begins 'Bridgerton' Production Designer Alison Gartshore Dissects That Beautiful Botanical Ball: "It Pushed Everyone to the Limit" How 'Beatles '64' Remastered the Legendary Band's Live Performances for New Documentary 'You're so inside of it that you really kind of lose sight of what it will mean when a TV audience experiences episode two of season two,' Pascal told the crowd, and given that Joel also dies in the video game that the series is based on, 'I'm like, 'Well, everyone knows this is gonna happen,' because I've just been living with it for such a long time. I guess the context of that is that none of us were really thinking about that as we were shooting it. We were just like really in the story.' It was a surprise to many fans, though, and is a pivotal part in the series; after an appearance in season two's first episode, the second episode serves as the formal introduction to Abby — who will take over as the lead character for the upcoming third season — as a young woman out for revenge after Joel killed her father. 'Kaitlyn just came in, I had no doubt in my mind that she was going to knock it out of the park, because I'd seen her knock everything out of the park that she'd ever done up to that point,' Pascal continued. 'So there was a dance that we just got to enjoy that really, to just be scene partners for something as intense as that, and right away just be in it together. It was really fun.' The star also noted how he and Ramsey — whose characters are not on good terms in season two — had been apart for a while between the show's first and second seasons, 'because we'd been together for a year, and then we saw each other here and there — we're always keeping in touch, but we were really, kind of like physically apart for a long time, and then when we got back together, our characters weren't together. That was just really strangely painful in a way that I hadn't personalized on previous jobs. So it was all kind of magical in a kind of painful way which helps you play it.' Mazin commended Dever for her performance in the violent scene, emphasizing, 'I don't know how Kaitlyn was looking at Pedro, turned to look at golf clubs, turned back and a tear fell. I don't know how she did it.' Dever threw the compliment right back at Pascal and Ramsey, for the scene when Ramsey's Ellie sobs over Joel's lifeless body. When 'Joel is lying there dead, I don't know how you guys did that moment,' she told the pair. 'I had to leave the room. I couldn't watch it. I don't know how you did it.' Dever also explained that when it came to her character, 'the most important thing to me when I was going to play Abby and doing the prep for her is just really focusing on her grief. I wanted people to be able to really see that and feel that and really understand just how deep her pain is, understand how much time she's spent thinking about this and obsessing over it and calculating exactly what she was going to say and what she was going to do when she was face-to-face with Joel.' 'There was a moment at the very end when she kills Joel, and I think that there's a moment where she doesn't feel better and now she has to live with that,' she continued. 'So I really wanted to just be able to see the human parts of her and that she's not just this evil person that did this horrible thing.' Best of The Hollywood Reporter 'The Studio': 30 Famous Faces Who Play (a Version of) Themselves in the Hollywood-Based Series 22 of the Most Shocking Character Deaths in Television History A 'Star Wars' Timeline: All the Movies and TV Shows in the Franchise Solve the daily Crossword
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Mike White Envisioned the Ratliffs as 'the Brunette Version' of the Family From ‘White Lotus' Season 1
The White Lotus creator Mike White made a rare appearance at HBO Max's Nominee Celebration on Sunday to celebrate season three's 23 Emmy nominations and shed some light on his unique process. Joined by stars Parker Posey, Jason Isaacs, Natasha Rothwell, Sam Rockwell, casting director Meredith Tucker and a virtual Carrie Coon, White explained that when he's putting together the group of actors for a new season, 'It feels like it works best when it's sort of like an orchestra, and you want different voices and you want a whole variety. I also feel like that when it comes to casting, it's fun to have actors who have different processes and different kinds of different vibes. It's like if you're a connoisseur of taste, you want a little a taste of this, a little taste of that.' More from The Hollywood Reporter Kaitlyn Dever "Couldn't Watch" Pedro Pascal and Bella Ramsey's Final Moment in 'The Last of Us': "I Don't Know How You Guys Did That" Conan O'Brien Says Late Night TV Is "Going to Disappear" But "People Like Stephen Colbert Are Too Talented and Too Essential to Go Away" Helen Mirren on Finding Time to Do It All and Why She Doesn't Plan to Retire Anytime Soon He pointed to Posey and Isaacs as a prime example of that, as 'they are so different in their approach. On the first day, I was like, OK, this is gonna be fun because they bring so many different kinds of methods to how they work. I don't need to tell them anything, they just do it and it's fun to just watch the chemistry.' Posey teased, 'I learn my lines front, back, left, right, up and down, and then Jason doesn't learn his lines at all. So it really was two different ways of working.' Tucker added that they don't do chemistry reads during the casting process but, when putting together the Ratliff family, did consider physical appearance 'to a degree.' White explained that it is important to him that actors playing family members look alike, and recalled how 'the first season, we did this family with Sydney Sweeney and Fred Hechinger and then Steve Zahn and we put them all together for the camera test and I was like, 'Oh, these people look exactly alike. This looks like a family.' And then I was like, 'We've got to do this with this Ratliff family.' I was like, 'We've got to make them look alike, maybe the brunette version of that family.' I don't know if they're as perfectly dwarfy cute blondes like that season, but they're amazing, I think they do [look related]. You want to buy it.' The cast also joked that it was such a unique experience working on The White Lotus that when it comes to meeting actors from past seasons, 'It's like being an astronaut,' Coon said. 'Like you've seen Earth from space and the only other people who've seen Earth from space are other astronauts. And so forever, the people who did these seasons will be like, 'I see you over there.'' White concluded the conversation on an emotional note, tearfully telling his cast, 'Can I just say, because I don't know if I'll ever get a chance to say this again with all y'all here — thank you so much for being so amazing. I was thinking about who's on this panel and how much you brought to this show and how much I learned from each one of you guys. I'm so grateful and I love you all, thank you so much.' Best of The Hollywood Reporter 'The Studio': 30 Famous Faces Who Play (a Version of) Themselves in the Hollywood-Based Series 22 of the Most Shocking Character Deaths in Television History A 'Star Wars' Timeline: All the Movies and TV Shows in the Franchise
