More Details About HBO’s The Last Of Us Season 2 Revealed, Like How It’ll Adapt Scenes That Were Cut From The Game, And Why Kaitlyn Dever Didn’t Need To Get Jacked To Play Abby

HBO’s The Last Of Us will premiere its second season this coming April 2025, and as we move into February at time of writing, we move ever closer to finally knowing which day to book off and prepare for the emotional trauma that’ll likely ensue from watching this season.

While we still don’t have a date for the season’s premiere, we did get a few more details about the coming season in a recent interview with showrunners Craig Mazin and Neil Druckmann speaking to Entertainment Weekly.

Details like how Kaitlyn Dever, who will be playing Abby this season, wasn’t asked to bulk up to look like Abby in the games. “We value performance over anything else,” Druckmann began.

“We need someone to really capture the essence of those characters…We don’t value as much, ‘Do they look exactly like the character with their eyebrows or their nose or their body?’ Whatever it is. It’s not nowhere on the priority list, but it’s below a bunch of other things that we consider.”

He also added that in this version of the story of The Last of Us Part II, “There’s not as much violent action moment to moment. It’s more about the drama. I’m not saying there’s no action here. It’s just, again, different priorities and how you approach it.”

Another topic once again touched on is how many seasons it’ll take for the show to get through the entire narrative of The Last Of Us Part II, and once again Mazin and Druckmann confirmed it’ll take multiple seasons to get through everything. “I think it’s pretty likely that our story will extend past a season 3,” said Mazin. “How far past? I can’t say. And that’s not to say that there are not other stories that could be told, but this story is the one that Neil and I are telling.”

Druckmann, for his part, added “We have a plan. We know what we need to do going forward, but we couldn’t tell your right now exactly how many episodes or how many seasons it would take to get there.”

The showrunners also commented on the density of the coming seven-episode season. “Each episode is like a meal. You can have a light dinner or you can go to a 12-course French restaurant. We have seven episodes. They are high-calorie, dense episodes,” Mazin said. “If you consider action and drama and scope to be things that create an epic nature, each one of those episodes packs quite a wallop. You will not be bored.”

Another new detail that Mazin and Druckmann were more vague on was the fact that this coming episode will include scenes that have been adapted from parts cut out of the game. Players might recognize them from the ‘lost levels’ featured in the recent The Last of Us Part II Remastered release. There’s also a new casting announcement that’s yet to be revealed, that Druckmann and Mazin are eager to talk about when the time is right.

All in all, it looks like season 2 is shaping up to be an intense beginning to what’ll be a long journey to the end of the game’s narrative.

Source – [Entertainment Weekly]