#craig mazin

[chronicowboy]

[calkestis]

We thought it was important to show that Joel missed her. That he’s mourning her. In his very simple way, just making a small cairn of rocks to say quietly ”I’m sorry, I blew it. I lost you”. It was important for us to show that he cared. (Craig Mazin)

HBO’s The Last of Us Podcast, Episode 3

[gay-mafia-stickball]

Can we spend a few minutes on the giraffe scene? Because right before this, ellie is completely checked out. She’s traumatized, she’s distant, and she’s so completely absent. But beneath all of this trauma, she’s still a kid, and now she’s a kid who just saw a weird, fucked up leopard camel llama thing, probably for the first time, and it’s eating out of her hand with a weird, fucked up blue tongue as long as her forearm. She may be traumatized out of her mind and living in a post-apocalyptic hellscape, but that childlike wonder is still there, and Joel hasn’t looked more proud in the entire series.

[trashcora]

You tell me ‘look for the light’ ‘if it’s dark, look out’ I’ll break your jaw. +

[pedrohub]

All "zombie-adjacent" films and shows tend to begin the same way - with the outbreak, and The Last of Us was no exception, taking its time to take us through Sarah's (Nico Parker) last day with her father Joel (Pascal), before she is brutally shot by a soldier who panics under pressure. It's pivotal, because the incident informs Joel's character arc for the entire series. "As quickly as that moment happens in the first episode, we shot that scene all night," said Pascal. "It was physically and emotionally one of the hardest nights of shooting I've ever had."

"That was a rough night," says Craig Mazin, showrunner. "I think we did eight takes and the one we used was take eight! Pedro was beating himself up, saying, 'I haven't gotten there, I haven't gotten there.' Because he knew how important it was. And then he got there. And boy, did he ever." ( x )

[arcanejude]

craig mazin being the number one bella ramsey stan he’s so real

[earstwo]

“I think that letter underscores for him that no matter how hard he tries, and no matter how strong his instinct is to preserve and protect the people that he cares about, he can’t.” - Craig Mazin

[pedropascal24-7]

[hbothelastofus]

"I remember Craig [Mazin] came over to us as a last prompt, and he turned to me and he goes, 'This is the most pain that you've ever been in in your entire life. This is the most excruciatingly painful thing that's ever happened to you.' And then he said the same thing to Pedro." —Nico Parker.

[twilightronin]

Annihilation - Alex Garland 2018 The Last of Us - Craig Mazin 2023

[azertyrobaz]

“Out of respect. It’s wonderful.”

[thegreenkid2]

Joel failed at comforting Ellie after the first time he saw her shoot someone. But when she said she’s shot someone before, he realized she’s not scared, but traumatized. As someone who’s also traumatized, The way he soothes her was to give her the gun back. And showed her how to hold it. They bond over the one thing that they use to soothe their traumas. And that is their ability to control a chaotic world with violence.

-Craig Mazin on AwardsRadar

[olympain]

This isn't the tragic suicide at the end of the play.

I’m old. I’m satisfied. And you were my purpose.

[pedrohub]

Pedro Pascal in ‘The Last of Us cast sit down with game and show creators | Creator to Creator’

[midnightmurdershow]

The Last of Us (2023 - ) Season 01 Episode 01 "When You're Lost in the Darkness" Directed by Craig Mazin

[whisky-soul]

Pedro, Merle, and Craig behind the scenes of episode 9