Joel's original actor, Troy Baker, spoke about the death of his new character in the adaptation. The Last Of Us. While hunting deer to keep herself and Joel (Pedro Pascal) alive, Ellie (Bella Ramsey) meets cannibal religious leader David (Scott Shepard) and his right-hand man James (Baker). Although David wants to bring her into his cult community, Ellie constantly fights back, eventually killing David and James with a butcher knife.
In video from HBO Max Baker spoke about the brutal death of James in episode 8 The Last Of Us.
Joel's actor from the game discussed the difference between performing in a video game and playing on a real set, highlighting the need for imagination required for virtual productions. Baker called his death scene in episode eight the death scene amazing and detailed the elaborate prosthetics used to create realistic blood. Read what he said below:
«When you do a performance capture, a lot of it is fake. So if you're bleeding, you have to pretend it's blood. If you have been stabbed, you must pretend to have been stabbed. When you make a real movie or a show like this, they go all out.
So, I spent the whole morning in prosthetics. And they had a magnetic mount around my neck so that when Bell swung the umka around, it stuck. So it was. It was like... (imitates the connection of magnets) right there. And then they had this bladder full of blood. Actually, that's what they called it. They had a bladder full of blood that was leaking out through my neck through this prosthesis. So, when Bella hits me with a cleaver, I recoil and blood flows everywhere. It was just blood, blood, blood.
I had eight wardrobe changes. And every time I had to sit in a cold pool of my own blood. It was amazing.«
Like episode 8 The Last of Us prepares Ellie for the final
With Joel incapacitated for most of episode 8 The Last Of Us, this time Ellie was forced to defend herself. She managed to get a cure to get Joel back on his feet, killing the sadistic leader of a violent group of survivors. Ellie's actions in this episode not only boosted her self-confidence, but may have caused a major injury that would affect her progression to and beyond the finals.
Although Ellie had already killed before meeting David, brutally killing a man in a passionate rage must have consequences. Footage from the season 1 finale The Last Of Us Ellie sits on the back of a pickup truck, lost in her thoughts, possibly coping with the trauma she sustained from that fight. Combined with her solemn narration in the episode's trailer, in which Ellie states that everything they've been through can't be in vain, she's probably more determined than ever to get to the Cicadas and create a potential vaccine for a fungal infection. cordyceps.
At the end of the first season The Last Of Us Joel and Ellie are able to make it to their final destination. However, their biggest obstacle may not be in the form of more infected, but may come from within. If Ellie gets to the Fireflies safely, the revolutionary group may need her indefinitely to produce a vaccine. Throughout the perilous journey, an unbreakable bond has developed between Joel and Ellie that could be in jeopardy when Season 1 The Last Of Us ends on Sunday.
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