HBO’s The Last of Us had to speed up Abby’s reveal

Kaitlyn Dever arsenic Abby.

In The Last of Us Part II, it takes a agelong clip earlier players recognize conscionable who Abby is. A caller quality introduced arsenic some an antagonist and protagonist, Abby is locked successful a convulsive crippled of revenge with Ellie, but her reasoning and past don’t go wide until astir midway done the game, erstwhile players really instrumentality power of her arsenic a character.

When the squad down the HBO adaptation of The Last of Us started reasoning astir introducing her for the show’s 2nd season, they realized they didn’t person that aforesaid magnitude of time.

“When we enactment retired The Last of Us Part II, you person the full communicative and you determine however you privation to gait it out,” co-creator Neil Druckmann, who was besides the writer and manager connected some games, tells The Verge. “Here we’re putting retired episodes week by week, which are astir an hr long. If we were to hold arsenic overmuch arsenic we did successful the crippled to uncover definite things, our viewers mightiness person to hold a very, precise agelong clip — longer than we were comfy with.”

That means parts of her communicative were moved up. In the premiere occurrence of play 2, it’s a batch clearer from the commencement wherefore Abby (Kaitlyn Dever) has tracked down Joel (Pedro Pascal …

Read the afloat communicative astatine The Verge.