The actor allowed the characterization to be determined by the showrunners and created some healthy distance between the two depictions. While The Last of Us is based on a video game – a first for HBO – Pascal didn’t want his portrayal of Joel to be an exact copy of the game's character.

The actor was flooded with offers following the Star Wars series' success and will reportedly be earning $600, 000 per episode, making him one of the highest paid American television actors.

Pascal became available to shoot the series after wrapping The Mandalorian’s second season. as Gabriel Luna stars as Tommy, Joel's younger brother a former soldier who clings to the hope of a better world. Pedro Pascal stars as Joel, a man tasked with smuggling the young and defiant Ella, played by Bella Ramsey, out of the quarantine zone and across the country. The Last of Us is a post-apocalyptic television series produced by HBO. The Last of Us is an adaptation of the popular video game of the same name, which was released in 2013. This young girl seemingly has immunity to the Cordyceps brain infection, so could she be the answer to a vaccine? The Last of Us centers on Joel, a survivor haunted by his traumatic past, and Ellie. When a brain infection spreads across the world, many humans adopt zombie-like traits – causing society to collapse.

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