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At 'The Last of Us' season 2 premiere, Gabriel Luna describes welcoming the new cast members and how working with a fun cast makes dealing with difficult subject matter easier and more enjoyable.

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00:00So what was it like welcoming all these new cast members were you on like the welcoming committee here as a I'm a pretty

00:05gregarious type guy and and

00:08You know, they all came in and brought so much youth and energy and beauty to the piece

00:14Caitlin brought this intense focus and and and sweetness and kindness to Abby which I think you need and if you play the game

00:22I think there's a balance and there's a two sides of a coin type thing between her and Elliot and you need those qualities

00:27in your Abbey

00:28Izzy is just effervescence and bubbly and smart and so wise beyond her years

00:33Spencer Lord the strength and the kindness there, you know, I got to go down the line now

00:38Are you a baller? Are you about Ariella Byer beautiful singing voice incredible musician all of them are

00:44Danny Ramirez

00:45Too handsome sometimes just want to pinch his little cute little face and then young Mazino was like my my homie

00:51He was like my kind of road dog. We kind of went all through

00:55Vancouver kind of tearing it up. So there's probably some stories being told about us somewhere in Vancouver. I don't know. Who did I miss?

01:02Tati Tati. Oh Tati's just just like walking art and

01:07The lead of Naughty Dog's intergalactic, which is incredible new game that Naughty Dog is developing and Tati Gabrielle

01:13We were fortunate to have her so cast is amazing across the board

01:17What was it like walking on to that whole Jackson set for the first day?

01:20Well, the original Jackson set was once one road in Canmore, Alberta and

01:27And it was already just a kind of a marvel of production design and of intense focus and detail and

01:34then

01:35We go to the second season and we go up to Squamish British Columbia and build build outs

01:43Entire city blocks of the city of Jackson and it was spectacular to see I mean

01:49Working interiors and all these buildings and and a lot of like breakaway

01:55Tearaway and flammable type things and just just the whole the whole city. I was like y'all should just keep this here, man

02:01It's just like just have your own backlot here and here in in British Columbia

02:08Unbelievable, I mean our our production design team is I mean you always say yes, so it's only the best

02:16And the subject matter obviously can very be very dark and grueling. How do you kind of get in and out of that mindset?

02:23you work with Pedro and Bella and

02:26and

02:27Watch them giggle in between takes and laugh at you and you're trying to be serious

02:31Caitlin and I both talk about this just like come in all serious trying to be serious and if they have

02:37If they're having their giggle fit, there's no stopping them. It doesn't matter. It's not anything you're doing. That's making them laugh

02:42It's just they're just they're just very fun and playful people

02:47So yeah, I think I think it's the levity in between each take that all the cast brings they bring we bring our musical

02:53Tastes and our musical abilities to a lot of it

02:55and I think that that also helps to kind of put a melody in the air and calm everybody down and

03:01Yeah, so it's a lot of really heartbreaking stuff tough stuff to work through. So it's good to have people like to play

03:07Thank you very much

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