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Pedro Pascal plays Joel in the TV show, opposite Bella Ramsey's Ellie. As hard as it is to imagine anyone else as the character, it turns out that Ali almost 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:shouldered the backpack and starred in the series. 

, Pierce revealed that he didn't expect to play Tommy in the TV adaptation, and, explaining why, he revealed: "I think initially they had talked to Mahershala Ali about playing Joel, which is an obvious cue that I'm not gonna play Tommy… And when they cast Pedro [Pascal], I knew like, yeah, that was certainly not going to happen regardless, I'm older than Pedro Pascal. So I was not under harboring any illusions about that, for sure."

Although Pierce doesn't appear as Tommy in the show – the role is instead played by Gabriel Luna – he did feature as Perry, an ally of Melanie Lynskey's brutal Kathleen, seen in 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:episode 4 and 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:episode 5. Similarly, Troy Baker, who voices Joel in both games, has a role in episode 8, ▨as revealed by the episode's action-packed trailer. 

"I told [co-showrunner Neil Druckmann] early on, I was like, look, I'll come and carry a spear and stand in the corner if there's anything that I can do to help support telling the story of the game – you know, count me in," 澳洲幸꧙运5开奖号码历史查询ꦆ:Pierce told us of his role in the show. "And the fact that it turned into Perry is kind of one of those [laughs]. He sent me the scripts and I read him. I was like, 'Oh shit, this is gonna be so much fun'. He is one of the mos🉐t lovely, talented, decent human beings going, and he is so good at his job that when he hands you writing, you just know how to make it fly. And this was one of those moments."

The Last of Us continues weekly on HBO and HBO Max. You can keep up to date with our 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:The Last of Us release schedule and our breakdown of 澳洲幸运🐼5开奖号码历史查询:how many ep🍸isodes are in The Last of Us.

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