The Last of Us Season 3 to Be Lead by Kaitlyn Dever's Abby, Co-Creator Neil Druckmann Confirms

Spoilers up for The Last of Us Season 2 connected HBO!

The Last of Us bid co-creator Neil Druckmann has confirmed that Season 3 volition beryllium pb by Kaitlyn Dever's Abby.

As reported by Variety and THR, Druckmann shared the quality during an Emmys FYC sheet portion discussing the originative state HBO allows the squad successful bringing this video crippled communicative to beingness connected television.

"I deliberation it was bully to spell connected that travel to extremity up astatine HBO and extremity up astatine a spot that leaned into those arguable decisions, I guess," Druckmann said. "But the decisions are conscionable what the communicative required, and adjacent now, it’s similar I can’t judge that they fto america operation the bid successful this way. Meaning like, we conscionable ended play two, and play 3 is going to beryllium starring — spoiler alert — Kaitlyn.”

Dever joined the sheet virtually and spoke astir her acquisition playing Abby, a quality who has been surrounded by toxicity agelong earlier The Last of Us was ever a series.

"I conjecture the contention surrounding Abby was ne'er truly a interest for me, conscionable fixed my archetypal gathering with Craig and Neil and however fantastic they are and however talented they are,” Dever said. “I’ve ne'er felt truthful carried connected a acceptable successful my life. I cognize we conscionable watched Episode 2, doing that country successful the chalet… I was going done a batch personally, but it was 1 of the top experiences I’ve ever had arsenic an actor, conscionable due to the fact that it really, truly felt similar specified a squad effort.”

Dever was evidently speaking of the infinitesimal Abby killed Joel, and bid co-creator Craig Mazin had a fewer things to accidental astir the decease of the beloved quality played by Pedro Pascal.

"In a amusement wherever we effort and support things arsenic grounded arsenic possible, and we privation radical to consciousness successful existent danger, past yes, sometimes the radical that we can’t ideate dying die. That’s because, for me, this is not a amusement astir revenge. It’s a amusement astir grief,” Mazin said. “To put each this clip and past spell distant for a agelong clip and past travel back, it’s adjacent much unsafe to bash what we did, and that’s wherefore I thought it should beryllium done, due to the fact that it doesn’t hap enough."

Mazin and Druckmann besides gave america the smallest tease astir this upcoming season, archetypal noting that the squad has tended to "light things connected fire, smash them, teardrop them down" erstwhile processing the show. For Season 3, however, things volition beryllium a spot different.

"It’s much of a h2o play than a occurrence season,” Druckmann revealed, arsenic Mazin confirmed, “It’s a wetter play than a hotter season.”

For more, cheque retired however Dever antecedently shared with america wherefore Abby is "so overmuch more" than her rage, our explainer of the ending of Season 2, and The Last of Us' originative squad connected however they crafted this season's astir important episodes.

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