Acrobats and “circus performers” played some of the Infected in that chaotic sequence.
Warning: This article contains spoilers fromThe Last of Usseason 1, episode 5.
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The Infected explode from the ground in ‘The Last of Us’ episode 5.HBO
Certain ones, however, were less emotionally devastating than usual.
“It was crazy.
She was so not afraid,” Lynskey tells EW.
“Rhythmic gymnast” Skye Belle Cowton played the creepy Clicker in ‘The Last of Us’ episode 5.HBO
“She’s on a wire swinging through the air and she’s just like, ‘Great!’
in the middle of the night in her little Blue’s Clues t-shirt.”
“It’s so awful, but that’s how specific he is.”
Jeffrey Pierce as Perry and Melanie Lynskey as Kathleen in ‘The Last of Us’.Liane Hentscher/HBO
“They built that cul-de-sac.
They just built it next to a studio.
The level of detail was just crazy.
You could have done a close-up on anything and it would’ve been absolutely perfect.
There’s no fudging.
So even just to see that was so insane.”
The sequence also marked Lynskey’s first time meeting series star Pascal.
“It was my last day of work,” Lynskey recalls.
So he wasn’t even there and I was just like, ‘Oh, this is your show.
It was just us off doing our own thing."
