The Final of Us has additionally wreaked emotional havoc on the forged’s respective relations.
The HBO collection — based mostly on the Naughty Canine online game of the identical identify — premiered in January 2023, introducing viewers to the dynamic pair of Joel (Pedro Pascal) and Ellie (Bella Ramsey).
Pascal, admittedly, had no thought concerning the online game till after he took on the position. Nonetheless, his nephews had an unimaginable response when listening to that their member of the family could be Joel.
“I didn’t know concerning the recreation earlier than I received the job. Then I received the job, and came upon in a short time concerning the recreation,” he mentioned on The Graham Norton Show in March 2023. “It wanted to be defined to me.”
After nabbing the position, Pascal referred to as his sister Javiera Balmeceda, who’s a mom of two teenage boys, Bruno and Pedro.
“I used to be on speaker when she answered. She was dropping them off in school,” he recalled. “I mentioned, ‘Effectively there’s this job supply … or alternative that’s based mostly on a online game.’ They’re like, ‘What’s it?’”
He remembered them yelling “you higher get that job,” when listening to which recreation it was.
Pascal’s nephews aren’t the one ones who’ve had some ideas concerning the present. Preserve scrolling for extra:
Gabriel Luna
Luna performs Tommy on The Final of Us and whereas he’s turn into a fan favourite amongst viewers, the actor’s 92-year-old grandmother was not impressed by the season 2 premiere.
“I flew my mother, my 92-year-old grandmother, my child sister and my cousin into Los Angeles for the premiere of the present a few weeks in the past,” Luna recalled throughout an April 2025 look on Virgin Radio UK. “We had been watching the screening and there’s this very intense second within the first episode, and I used to be like, ‘God, I hope she’s OK, it’s so loud and violent.’ I turned to my grandmother, simply utterly knocked out, completely asleep.”
Kaitlyn Dever
Dever made her The Final of Us debut as Abby throughout season 2. She informed Variety in March 2025 that she performed the online game along with her dad.
“It’s such a cool factor to get to share this with my dad,” she mentioned. “It was a really cool bonding expertise between the 2 of us as a result of we performed the primary recreation collectively after which I performed the second recreation with him up till we began enjoying Abby and I, form of, bailed as a result of that recreation is lengthy and I’m a nasty gamer.”
Dever continued, “He was actually excited once I received the decision about enjoying Abby. It’s all the time going to be cool to share stuff with my household however significantly this, it’s an actual pleasure to get to share that with him.”
Pedro Pascal
Pascal joked about his nephew’s response to his position as Joel in a separate March 2023 interview with IGN, joking that they “was demons” after discovering out.