Pedro Pascal, star of HBO’s The Last of Us TV series, recently revealed a surprising detail–he hasn’t seen the highly anticipated finale of the show. Adapted from the popular video game, the series features Pascal in the lead role of Joel, navigating a post-apocalyptic world alongside co-star Bella Ramsey. In a new interview with Steven Yuen for Variety, Pascal confessed that despite his emotional attachment to the series, he hasn’t been able to watch how it all ends as a viewer.
“I saw it all up until then,” Pascal said. “I haven’t done anything for that amount of time before, and so my attachment to the experience is strange. As a guy who’s pushing 50, to feel this very innocent, semi-angry, emotional attachment to an experience that’s over … It continues, but there will never be another meeting Bella for the first time, working with Craig [Mazin], with the entire crew, with my friend Coco, who did my hair, and the whole family experience of it. I think it was like falling in love… it hurts too much.”
To which, Yuen said, “You haven’t seen it? You crushed it! It felt very lived in.”