'That's the best compliment I can give an actor — I don't think about the actor, I think about the character and the relationship.'
So, BuzzFeed sat down with Neil Druckmann — aka the writer and director of the games and the co-creator of the HBO series — ahead of the episode's premiere to talk about how it came together."We knew we wanted to have Bill and we had started talking about the idea of showing Frank in flashbacks," he began."In the game, the way you learn who Bill is [is] that you enter his town, you set up off his trap, and then it's about this race to get this car battery.
We could have this parallel story that speaks to the theme and shows two people in several points in their lives — and we jumped around in time again in a way we couldn't have done in the game — and tells this really moving, beautiful story between these two middle-aged men, how they fell in love, and the struggles you have as you live life to the fullest and put yourself out there to experience the intense joys that come out of love and, sometimes, the sorrow and pain that comes out of...
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