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Melanie Lynskey CLAPS BACK astatine Top Model's The Last of Us Diss
On The Last of Us, it's champion not to get attached to anybody—even bloodthirsty militia leaders.
During the Feb. 10 occurrence of the HBO apocalypse drama, the backstory of revolutionary frontwoman Kathleen—played by Melanie Lynskey—is explored adjacent further. (Kathleen was introduced successful the Feb. 5 episode, successful which it was established a antheral named Henry was straight liable for the decease of Kathleen's brother, a cult-like fig named Michael.)
In occurrence five, Henry (Lamar Johnson) and his 8-year-old deaf member Sam (Keivonn Woodard) are introduced—and they're connected the run. They yet transverse paths with Joel (Pedro Pascal) and Ellie (Bella Ramsey), and Henry is capable to person Joel to articulation them successful an attempted flight done Kansas City's underground attraction tunnels.
As Kathleen tries tracking them down, she makes a detour unsocial to the puerility chamber she shared with her brother. There, she encounters militia person Perry (Jeffrey Pierce)—who followed Kathleen's steps acknowledgment to immoderate assistance from her mother—and shares wherefore seeking vengeance for Michael means truthful overmuch to her.
"When Michael and I were little, this country seemed truthful big," Kathleen tells Perry. "I was truly frightened of thunder, truthful erstwhile determination was a storm, Michael told maine that this wasn't a country astatine all. This was really conscionable a big, woody box. A big, woody container that thing could get wrong of. It didn't substance if determination was lightning oregon tornadoes oregon gunfire, helium said arsenic agelong arsenic we were unneurotic successful our cleanable box, we would beryllium safe."
However, Kathleen's sentimental side doesn't instrumentality astir for long.
"If you've travel to archer maine that Michael wouldn't privation maine to wounded Henry, that helium would privation maine to forgive? I cognize that, too," Kathleen says to Perry. "He told me. The past clip I saw him alive, successful jail, helium told maine to forgive. And what did helium get for that? Where is the justness successful that? What is the constituent of that?"
Perry, a faithful right-hand antheral to the bitter end, had nary volition of dissuading Kathleen, telling her, "He didn't alteration anything. You did. We're with you."
And conscionable similar that, they're off.
Kathleen and her cavalcade yet tracks down the foursome—and that's erstwhile s--t truly hits the fan.
After Joel manages to sprout and the termination the operator of 1 of the militia's monolithic vehicles, the car careens into a adjacent dilapidated location and bursts into flames. And conscionable arsenic Kathleen and her squad statesman to country Ellie, Henry and Sam, a monolithic sinkhole emerges wherever the conveyance crashed and envelopes the happening entirely.
What emerges from the hole, you mightiness ask? Oh, conscionable an service of infected humans looking for dinner.
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Amidst a oversea of violence, a fourth-stage infected—called a Bloater—sets its sights connected Kathleen and Perry. With the Bloater successful pursuit, Perry tells Kathleen, "Run. Find cover, don't look back. Run!"
Seconds later, Perry's caput is brutally torn disconnected by the Bloater.
Still, Kathleen refuses giving up connected her mission. As Ellie, Henry and Sam are steps distant from fleeing the scene, Kathleen catches up from behind, points a weapon astatine them and yells, "Stop!"
At that moment, though, a child-sized subordinate of the infected leaps connected apical of Kathleen, attacking her with a barrage of punches earlier yet taking a wound retired of her face.
The grisly country marked the extremity of an eventful week for Lynskey, whose clap backmost at America's Next Top Model victor Adrianne Curry connected Feb. 8 went arsenic viral arsenic the legions of zombies onscreen.
"I recognize that immoderate radical are huffy that I'm not the emblematic casting for this role," Lynskey tweeted astir playing Kathleen. "That's thrilling to me. Other than the moments aft enactment is called, erstwhile you consciousness similar you're really successful idiosyncratic else's body, the astir breathtaking portion of my occupation is subverting expectations."
Consider them successfully subverted.
The Last of Us airs Sundays astatine 9 p.m. connected HBO.
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