![]() ![]() “Long, Long Time” was chosen after much debate on what the unifying song would be, with a shortlist that even included various showtunes. And you always think, ‘What would I do in the middle of nowhere?’”Īnother key is the poignant song that gives the episode its title, a 1970 Gary White ballad made famous by Linda Ronstadt that becomes a through-line for all the characters, including Pascal and Ramsey. Most of us in the world don’t live there. “It really made you understand the world that people had left, because everyone in cities in these apocalypse stories are always charging around on, like, an ‘Avengers’-level scale. “When the game loads, there’s this image of a window and it’s all rotten and dilapidated, and there’s a breeze,” Hoar said, noting that while much of the shooting used real locations, that shot had to be manipulated and built a certain way to truly capture the crane’s angle at the most vital points. Nick looked to Murray just the way that Bill looks to Frank for guidance.” He was perfect for Bill because he has a big heart. “Bill and Nick have so much in common because Nick is a master at survival - he knew all the tricks and bits of equipment everywhere and knew so many things about the props. That’s what I love about it - it just so happens that it’s a guy.” Nick Offerman and Murray Bartlett as Frank and Bill in “The Last of Us (Liane Hentscher/HBO)Īccording to Hoar, Offerman leaned into Bartlett’s experiences as an out gay man to assuage his doubts about being able to bring authenticity to the role. He falls in love with a human being called Frank. He discovers who he is when he meets Frank and hasn’t got a label for it. Bill’s language isn’t modern and he doesn’t know who he is. “But when we talked about who Bill really was, there was a slight disconnect. “I’m always very keen to cast authentically, for lots of reasons,” Hoar said. His was the trickier role to cast: English actor Con O’Neill was originally attached to costar with Bartlett but dropped out over a scheduling conflict with “Our Flag Means Death ” Offerman, a friend of cocreator Craig Mazin, got the offer to step in. ![]() Offerman’s character, Bill, the shaggy, paranoid survivalist half of the couple, appears in the game in a truncated fashion and even briefly refers to a male partner, though that person is never seen alive. ‘The Last of Us’ Star Bella Ramsey Understood Their Character Right Away: ‘Ellie Came Very Naturally for Me’
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