Joe Pantoliano can finally get HBO, thanks to ‘The Last of Us’
It’s not TV, so maybe that’s why Joey Pants can’t get his HBO? “The Last of Us” season 2 guest star Joe Pantoliano had told before Variety He does not subscribe to the Pay Cabler, which is why he was not familiar with the series when he was approached to pay the role of Eugene. From this weekend, he still Does not have a HBO subscription – but now the maker of “The Last of Us” Craig Mazin is planning to do something about it.
“I say that ignorance is blissfulness. I don’t have a HBO. I hope no one of HBO is here,” Pantoliano joked, speaking during the “The Last of Us” panel on the Televerse Festival of the Television Academy on Saturday. HBO organized the panel, so they were of course!
It was unclear whether Mazin had heard this anecdote earlier, but he seemed to be unbelieving in the news: “You don’t have a HBO?! We can get your HBO!”
Responded Pantoliano: “I have turned up for the past 25 years because they never gave it when I did ‘the sopranos’!” Pantoliano naturally played Ralph “Ralphie” Cifaretto in seasons 3 and 4 of “The Sopranos” until he, well, he from Tony Rent.
“You say they wouldn’t give Ralphie HBO?” Said Mazin on stage. “That is messing around!”
“The Last of US” Executive producer – and creator of VideoGames – Neil Druckmann had another solution for Pantoliano, who admitted that he never played the game: “We’re going to get you a PlayStation before you get HBO.”
Pantoliano appears in season 2, episode 6 Flashback episode, where viewers learn what a gap created between Joel (Pedro Pascal) and Ellie (Bella Ramsey). Pantoliano’s character Eugene is the husband of the city psychologist Gail (Catherine O’hara). During the first patrol of Ellie, she and Joel Wougene, who has just been bitten by an infected and will soon succumb to the Cordyceps fungus. He begs Joel and Ellie to take him to the outside walls so that he can have a last moment with Gail. Joel says no, but Ellie convinces Joel to break the rules to bring him back. But when Ellie goes on his way to pick up the horses of hers and Joel, Joel – who had promised not to shoot eugene – anyway.
“So Greg and Neil, we had a phone call, and they sent me two of the scripts, and then I read my scenes, and I remember that I thought this character was more and much more a challenge for an actor than the last 20 years that I have been to the show business,” Pantoliano said. “There was so much to test. And then, the simple things of ‘Who am I? Where and me? “What spoke to me the most is the human element of Like:” This could happen. ” It happens every day. [Druckmann] Defeat the shit from me and he knew what he wanted. ‘
Added Druckmann, who directed that episode: “Joey was so nice to work with, because as long as we had ideas, we continued to explore and dig. And it was such a pleasure to find the character at the moment. Because initially the way it was written, there were a number of comic lighting that were simply cut out in the moment.
As for what is going to come in season 3 when Kaitlyn Dever (who plays Abby plays) goes in more, Dever said that “we get the real core of Abby in this season, and really give some context. Because she appears a bit in the game, and you don’t know who she is. Told with what we do for season 3. I have just been a fan of the game.
Hinted: “Knowing that I have this pillar in Kaitlyn who will anchor this cast, and knowing that I can turn again [production designer] Mafia boss [MacAulay] To build this physical world around us, and it becomes pretty ambitious. We have already had meetings, he knows, and [VFX producer] Alex [Wang] Is it going to extend behind it and there is orphan. If you play the game, you know something comes. We talked a lot about cellars, that’s all I will say. “
