Kaitlyn Dever has described her method to showing within the second season of The Final Of Us, after being solid as a divisive determine from the unique sport.
Dever’s character, Abby, was a controversial matter for followers after turning into an antagonist within the sport The Final of Us Half II, launched in 2020.
After an encounter with protagonist Joel, many gamers had a unstable response towards each Abby and the creatives behind the sport. The actor portraying her, Laura Bailey, acquired dying threats which prompted the sport’s director to talk out.
Naturally, the actor that took on the function within the TV sequence would concentrate on the potential backlash, and Dever revealed her method in an interview with ScreenRant. “Properly, it’s laborious to not see these issues on the web” she mentioned.
“It’s laborious to not cease myself from taking a look at it each from time to time, particularly going into this, for certain. And I wish to do that character justice and make the followers proud by bringing her to life in this sort of manner”.
She continued: “My primary focus was simply the collaboration between (showrunners Craig Mazin and Neil Druckmann), and ensuring I used to be actually attending to the core of who she is and what drives her and her emotional state; her anger and her frustration and her grief and all of that.
“I needed to ensure that that was what I used to be focusing most of my vitality on”.
Season two of The Final Of Us will premiere on April 13 on MAX within the US and Sky Atlantic within the UK. A 3rd season already in growth. Just lately, star Pedro Pascal described the second season as “fucking heartbreaking”, joking that the makers of the present have been “sick individuals”.