Warning: This article contains spoilers fromThe Last of Usseason 1, episode 6.
“When I played the games, I experienced the story as one big chunk, one unified story.
“I’m fully… Yeah, I’m ready.”
Gabriel Luna in season 1, episode 6 of ‘The Last of Us’.Liane Hentscher/HBO
The actor says he even ran some things by showrunnersCraig Mazinand Neil Druckmann about Tommy in season 2.
I’m excited to get into that work.”
During that time, the brothers committed certain atrocities to get to survive.
Tommy (Gabriel Luna) reunites with his brother Joel (Pedro Pascal) in ‘The Last of Us’.Liane Hentscher/HBO
Luna describes those acts as “spirit-damaging.”
They killed people, but Tommy, Luna says, “couldn’t let that stand.
It’s just not who he is.
He couldn’t kill selfishly like that.”
He always saw those atrocities as creating the wedge between the siblings.
In fact, it probably increased exponentially."
I think that might have been the straw that sent Tommy on his own way," Luna explains.
They rehearsed the scene for a full day.
Luna says he felt the same as when he was performing theater in Austin as a younger actor.
“In that session, Pedro and I completely rewrote the scene.
We didn’t change a single letter.
We just restructured the way that this scene unfolds,” Luna recalls.
That was pretty much the only scene on the slate that whole day.
But Luna is visibly excited at the thought of what’s to come for his character down the line.
“Bella is a great musician herself.
“She and I would jam.”
