The Last of Us season 2 has lastly arrived, and with it comes the heartbreak that followers have anticipated. With varied estrangements and new relationships forming between characters, viewers are dying to seek out out what occurs between Joel and Ellie. After that season 1 cliffhanger, the duo is now estranged within the second season, which is about 5 years later. And as authentic followers know, Joel dies within the online game storyline. So, what’s going to occur to him within the TV present?
Below, Hollywood Life is breaking down every part we all know up to now about Joel’s future.
Who Does Pedro Pascal Play in The Last of Us?
Pedro Pascal performs the position of Joel, who begrudgingly kinds an alliance with Bella Ramsey‘s character, Ellie, in season 1. But after bonding, Joel becomes Ellie’s unofficial protecting guardian as they journey throughout a ruined post-apocalyptic United States.
Is Pedro Pascal Still in The Last of Us Season 2?
Yes, Pedro stars in season 2 of The Last of Us. Since the season is simply starting, it’s unclear what number of episodes he seems in, but it surely’s secure to imagine that it’s most of them if not all.
While talking at Variety‘s March 2025 press convention, Pedro kept away from disclosing any spoilers about Joel, however he famous that he was “grateful to be back and yet, at the same time, this experience, more than any other I’ve had, is hard for me to separate what the characters are going through and how it makes me feel, in a way that isn’t very healthy. And so I kind of feel their pain.”
Pedro additionally mentioned his character’s relationship with Gabriel Luna‘s Tommy.
“I think that there was just a very, very well placed arc for us,” Pedro identified, referring to their characters. “I started the season with [Gabriel]. We started season 1 together on D-Day, right? And so there was a kind of bonding, initiation process, stepping into all of it. … I feel like it was a beautiful setup by [show creators] Craig [Mazin] and Neil [Druckmann] that the first thing that I got to shoot was just you and I and in kind of an intimate setting. There’s incredibly painful distance between the two of them and the playing of the scene, but we still got to be on set and fuck around and laugh and stuff like that. And that was incredibly comforting, that was like coming home.”
Does Joel Die in The Last of Us Season 2?
While the solid and creators have stayed quiet about Joel’s destiny, followers of the unique online game know what’s doubtless coming. In The Last of Us Part II, Joel is killed early on. Whether the HBO collection follows the identical path as the sport or takes a brand new course stays to be seen, however the emotional stakes are already set excessive.
Season 2 introduces Abby (performed by Kaitlyn Dever), who makes her mission clear from the beginning: she’s out to kill Joel. Her motivation stems from the Season 1 finale, the place Joel rescues Ellie from a life-threatening operation that might have created a remedy, killing a number of Fireflies within the course of, together with Abby’s father.