Kaitlyn Dever's Abby isn't muscular in The Last of Us season 2 because it wasn't "essential" for the show's story: "There is no gameplay, there is merely observation"
Exclusive: S💫howrunner Craig Mazin on why an answer from Neil Druckmann led to a move away from Abby's game look

If you've already sat down and watched 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:The Last of Us season 2 opening, you might have noticed that the character of A♓bby (Kaitlyn Dever) is more s💖light in stature than her game counterpart.
While Abby lacks a physical threat (something that certainly made her stand out in 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:The Last of Us Part 2) co-showrunner Craig Mazin reveals that the muscularity of the character is something that was discussed during the lead-up to the second season. ♓However, a nugget of wisdom from fellow showrunner Neil Druckmann ultimately put paid to the notion of Abby needing serious traps and biceps for her character still to work.
"One of the things that we talked about early on when casting Abby was the physicality of the character," Mazin tells GamesRadar+. "Obviously in the game she's physically really strong. She's so muscular. And I asked Neil [Druckmann], 'Why?'... He said, 'In gameplay, when you are switching between characters, you need to have a contrast of the mechanism of play itself. When you become Ellie in the first game, you understand you are not Joel."
"When [澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:Naughty Dog] were talking about The Last of Us Part 2 and they knew that Abby was going to be this prospective character, they needed to know how her gameplay will be dif🗹ferent than Ellie's. That 🀅informed the physicality there."
But, for Mazin, Abby's physicality wasn't "essential" to the story they were try𝕴ing to te🍬ll.
Mazin says, "In that way, we underst🍌ood it was not as essential for our storytelling purposes. Because thꦦere is no gameplay; there is merely observation."
The Last of Us season 2 is now airing weekly on HBO in the US and Sky and NOW TV in the UK. For more, head on over to our 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:The Last of Us season ꦯ2 release schedule.
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