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Pedro Pascal stars alongside Bella Ramsey successful HBO's deed bid The Last of Us, adjacent if helium doesn't precisely retrieve getting cast. Find retired what helium told Jimmy Fallon!
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This sounds similar rather the nightmare.
Pedro Pascal secured 1 of the season's astir coveted roles erstwhile helium got the portion of Joel successful The Last of Us, but determination was a infinitesimal erstwhile the histrion didn't adjacent judge it himself. He conscionable revealed the "really unusual circumstance" surrounding his casting.
"I was really successful London and everyone other was successful Los Angeles, and I got sent these scripts and I was told, 'Craig Mazin wants you to work these scripts and if you similar them, he'd similar to speech to you,'" Pascal recalled to Jimmy Fallon connected The Tonight Show Feb. 2. "I loved Chernobyl, the miniseries helium showran for HBO, it was unbelievable. Anyway, I work the archetypal publication and I was like, 'Yeah, yeah, yeah, I wanna conscionable him.'"
At that point, the clip quality betwixt the West Coast and the United Kingdom was taking its toll connected Pascal, truthful helium decided to instrumentality a sleeping pill earlier yet gathering with Neil Druckmann, who co-created the amusement and wrote the archetypal 2013 video game.
"I get a telephone and I get told that I got the occupation aft I took the Ambien, and truthful I was excited, I guess, but I didn't remember," helium revealed. "I woke up successful the greeting and the archetypal happening that occurred to maine was, 'I truly privation that job.'"
Thankfully, the disorder was each cleared up earlier helium spent the remainder of his time waiting for the telephone erstwhile helium checked his telephone and saw congratulatory messages from his team.
Pascal exclaimed: "Oh yeah, I got the job!"
The bid stars Pascal arsenic post-apocalyptic subsister Joel, who is tasked with smuggling a young miss named Ellie (Bella Ramsey) retired of their quarantine zone. His extremity is to yet usage her earthy immunity to the Cordyceps corruption to find a cure earlier the full satellite turns into zombie-like clickers.
In conscionable 3 weeks, The Last of Us has cemented itself arsenic assignment television. It has rapidly go HBO's second-largest debut—falling conscionable down Game of Thrones prequel, House of the Dragon—and has already been renewed for a 2nd season.
See however Joel and Ellie's communicative unfolds erstwhile The Last of Us airs Sundays connected HBO and HBO Max.
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