AUSTIN, Texas — Though the online game “The Last of Us Part II” got here out in 2020 — seven years after the blockbuster authentic — there are nonetheless sufficient viewers blissfully unaware of what’s to return on HBO’s Emmy-winning adaptation that the L.A. Occasions studio at SXSW was a strict spoiler-free zone on Saturday when the staff behind the sequence stopped in for a go to.
Starring Pedro Pascal and Bella Ramsey as Joel and Ellie, the unlikely duo who in Season 1 make their method throughout a harmful post-apocalyptic U.S. searching for a society-saving miracle, “The Last of Us” picks up for Season 2 5 years later, after the pair have established a steady house within the rebuilt settlement of Jackson, Wyo. — if not a steady relationship. The sophomore run additionally provides Abby (Kaitlyn Dever), a younger lady who goes searching for Joel and Ellie after her father is killed.
The group — which additionally included fellow solid members Isabela Merced, Gabriel Luna and Younger Mazino, sequence creators Craig Mazin and Neil Druckmann and author Halley Gross — talked about the place we discover the characters in Season 2, its political themes, and the way laborious they need to work to maintain from spilling the beans whereas doing press. “The Last of Us” returns April 13. Watch the total video under.