The Last of Us Season 2 star reveals the future of Tommy after Joel’s death

The Last of Us Season 2 Episode 2, titled Through the Valley, is the highest-rated episode in the entire series. There's a specific reason for that, as this episode features Pedro Pascal's character Joel's death at the hands of Abby.

Now, we're left to cope with the reality that Joel is dead, and that Ellie had to watch him be killed brutally in front of her own eyes and was unable to do anything about it. Along with Joel's death, the episode also follows Tommy, played by Gabriel Luna, as he defends his people against the forces that try to infiltrate Jackson in the wake of his brother's death.

Here's what Gabriel Luna had to say about the future in The Last of Us Season 2.

The Last of Us Season 2 actor Gabriel Luna on the future after Joel's death

Given that the show remains faithful while adapted from The Last of Us Part II game, fans of the show pondered the truth about the reality that devastating and horrifying death was going to happen soon. However, none of us imagined in our wildest dreams that it would happen only two episodes into The Last of Us Season 2, which would end in winning and make self.

Gabriel Luna, the actor who plays Joel's brother, Tommy, was quoted in Esquire about how the future after Joel's death in the story is going to be of epic proportions:

"The incident that drives everyone down into descent, into revenge and anger and thirst for blood that doesn’t seem quenchable. I can’t wait for the world to see it. It’s one people will talk about for a long time."

One would think that it wasn't practically possible to make Joel's death more heartwrenching than in the game, but the makers of The Last of Us Season 2 achieved that feat when they forced their audience to sit with the intense shock and grief of Joel's murder just as Ellie has to process what she just witnessed.

Talking about Tommy's journey after Joel's shocking death, Luna recently described it as a 'passing of the torch', a transition that will happen, and how The Last of Us Season 2's world expands:

"I’ve been to a lot of funerals in my life. I try to frame it as: Their cage has opened. Now they’re free. Their spirit can go back to the pool of creation, and rejoin The One. There’s a lot of hope in the idea of death for me....There’s this scene that follows the events of the second episode. I won’t get into it too heavily, but there’s a transition that happens, a passing of the torch so to speak. It felt not only was it happening in the story but in our work and in our production. It’s exciting moving forward. It’s a terribly tragic episode. But now the world expands."

It will be interesting to see this transformation that Luna is referring to, and how the grief of Joel's death plays out for Ellie, Dina, and the community in Jackson.

New episodes for The Last of Us Season 2 air on Sunday, and Episode 3 is all set to premiere on April 27 at 9 PM ET.

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