We chat with TheLastOfUs star pierce_jeffrey about experiencing the world of the videogame in a whole new way, his new character Perry vs his game character Tommy, and the events of episode 5:
The Last of Us series, based on the acclaimed 2013 video game of the same name, has earned praise from critics and fans with record HBO viewership. With the fifth episode, the series has developed Joel and Ellie's relationship, brought the terrifying clickers to life, and explored new aspects of the Cordycep fungus.
Cut to, you walk onto the cul-de-sac, the final battle set. This crew of people, who almost entirely took the job because it was The Last of Us and the game had impacted their lives deeply, have built 17 or 18 houses on a parking lot, and they're just absolutely seamless. Every detail, every brick, every piece of siding, every portico; aged for 20 years. It's just unbelievable.
And so when I saw that Perry was in the military and that, as Craig had written it, that when the firefight erupts, Perry is a professional while everything is going to shit around him, it just gave me everything that I needed to approach him as this sort of archetypal Kurosawa Ronin who had found his cause with Kathleen and her brother.
One of the things that the game and the show are about are the idea that love can lead us to do really terrible things. And his love for her, his affection for her brother, his desire for revenge for the loss of him — all of those things have colored his judgment to the place where he can't trust his own judgment. He's put himself in her hands this far, and he's got to stay there. They haven't slept in a week.
I can imagine seeing real Clickers versus the mo-cap ones in the game is a wildly different experience. How did it feel to see the Clickers in real life? Because I've got to admit, I'd probably be terrified. Jeffrey Pierce: We shot for, I think, three-and-a-half weeks all night in that cul-de-sac. It was cold, and it was dark, and it was as much fun as I've ever gotten to have anywhere in my entire life.
When it's badly written, our jobs become very, very difficult, because you're like, "Can I keep this thing above water?" But I've never been handed a piece of material by Neil or by Craig that didn't just flow in a human way with more ease than anything I've ever touched. So yeah, it had the same underpinning experience on the games for sure.
Jeffrey Pierce: It's an interesting line she says, to the effect of, "Kids die every day. What's the big deal? What's the difference? And in the world today, kids are getting killed every day. So, why should he be special?" I think it's her take on it. "You killed my brother. Why should I treat yours any differently?" And it speaks to sort of the rot at the heart of us as human beings. We're unable to have empathy.
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