The newest episode of The Last of Us was directed by Jasmila Žbanić, who is a real-life survivor of the Siege of Sarajevo and the Bosnian War of the 1990s. Žbanić made her directorial debut for TV with the episode, “Kin,” and now she’s shared some insight into how her experience in a real battleground affected her directing of the episode.
This story contains spoilers for HBO’s The Last of Us.
Episode 6 sees Joel (Pedro Pascal) and Ellie (Bella Ramsey) making their way to Jackson, Wyoming to meet up with Joel’s brother Tommy (Gabriel Luna). The settlement in the show’s fictional Jackson was not all that unlike where Žbanić was living during the war.