Craig Mazin attends The Last of Us season 2 premiere

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The Last of Us season 2 premiere

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00:00I mean, this is an incredible feat.

00:02You have really put blood, sweat and tears.

00:04You directed this first episode. Yes.

00:07What was it like getting back on set and getting ready to call action?

00:09That first man?

00:10It was like it was like slipping on your most comfortable pair of jeans, you know?

00:16And it's funny, you go through this incredibly long, arduous process

00:20to make a first season.

00:22And boy, I mean, I've like you basically collapse at the end of it.

00:25And you think, how the hell am I going to do this again?

00:28And then you're doing it again.

00:30Day one, you're like, huh, this is going to be way easier.

00:32And then you're like, I'm here at the end, like, oh, my God,

00:36how am I going to do this again?

00:37And then I will.

00:38I will, because I love it and I love the people I work with.

00:40I mean, this is such a big task because game two, part two is a bigger game.

00:46How do you all decide on seven episodes for for what we're going to see for this part?

00:51It's a great question.

00:51You know, one of the nice things about HBO is that they don't really say, hey,

00:55fit into this box, do it this way.

00:57And so Neil and I look at the story of the second game,

01:00which is bigger than any one season can contain.

01:03And we just sort of thought, how do we want to lay this out

01:06going forward all the way to the end?

01:08And then where's an interesting point to end a season?

01:11And that's where it happened.

01:13So it could have been nine episodes.

01:14It could have been six.

01:15It happened to be seven because that's what that's where the story went to

01:18for this season.

01:20Next season, we're not actually sure again how many episodes it might be,

01:23because we have to kind of lay it out again.

01:25We probably will take more than one season to to finish this story.

01:29I mean, that's just exciting for us all as fans.

01:32We're like, we know that as you've called it, you know,

01:35one of the greatest stories ever told, the greatest games ever made is not over yet.

01:39Does that kind of I don't know, did that make this particular experience

01:43feel maybe less pressure or less less final like?

01:49Well, I the pressure that I feel is extraordinary all the time

01:54because I mean, look at all these people, you know, and tens of millions of people

01:57watch the show just in the U.S. alone and all around the world, so many.

02:00So we owe it to them to do the best we can do.

02:03That is that's the pressure I feel all the time.

02:05But you're absolutely right.

02:06There is I don't think the pressure is going to be ending

02:10because there is an amazing ending to be told.

02:13I think it's just going to emotionally.

02:16I don't I don't know how I'm going to do it.

02:18I just I literally don't know how I'm going to get there on that day

02:22and say cut for the last time I've given.

02:25I will have given a decade of my life to this.

02:28And, you know, you're young.

02:30It doesn't mean that much to you, but it means a lot to me.

02:32I'm getting up there, you know, giving away decades now.

02:34I don't have a lot of them to give away.

02:35And but that's how much I love this.

02:38And it is sort of the you know, this is the work of a lifetime here.

02:41And I'm so grateful that people are watching it.

02:44And I say one other thing that we all do love is that we did.

02:47You are finally taking Joel to therapy just as much as I guess

02:50you're technically taking us to therapy by doing so.

02:53What was it like getting a chance to get Pedro and Catherine O'Hara together?

02:56That was a great day for me.

02:58I mean, I so you know, I was kind of I'll tell you, I was honestly terrified

03:01because, you know, I'm I'm directing this episode.

03:04There's Catherine O'Hara.

03:05Here's Pedro and I know that we're just like we're two old pals.

03:09But Catherine O'Hara, we're both like, oh, the legend.

03:12So I was like, oh, I'm going to go over there and direct Catherine O'Hara.

03:16And then she just has this beautiful way of saying like,

03:19hey, come on over, help me.

03:21Let's figure this out together.

03:22And she's so warm and loving and welcoming and modest and humble.

03:26And and that scene is one of my favorites in the entire season.

03:31It is you're watching two great actors at the top of their game.

03:37And the amount it's almost like you're watching

03:39like this amazing fistfight without fists, without raising voices,

03:44words and looks and feelings.

03:46It is I'm so proud of that scene.

03:49They did amazing work.

03:50I don't ask you. This is my last question.

03:52What episode does your other favorite scene come in this season?

03:57I do have I have a scene that I don't know if I would call my favorite.

04:00It's the one that gets me like out of nowhere.

04:03It's sort of like, you know, some of these punches you see coming in.

04:05Some just get you out of nowhere.

04:06And there's a scene in the last episode sequence that

04:12just gets you out of nowhere.

04:13And man, when it hits, it hits hard.

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