'Some of the greatest storytelling has been in video gaming,' says The Last of Us actor 'Merle Dandridge.' But it took decades for games to realize that potential and for Hollywood to do it justice.
Even as live action adaptations fell short, games themselves became more lifelike. Borrowing technology used in TV and film, digital impressions of real actors performing serious material became more and more common."Throughout the history of gaming, there have been wonderful performers," says Troy Baker, a voice actor veteran with over 300 credits, who played main character Joel inseries.
"It's just like being a kid, that everything is in your imagination that they built this entire set out of boxes, and you have a toy gun or something and like you are absolutely in a state of play. Because everyone's in these ridiculous outfits, you just forget about it, and you just focus on the work."Jeffrey Pierce, who portrayed Joel's brother Tommy in the game, took on a new role in the HBO show.
"I'm hearing Pedro [Pascal] say lines that Troy improvised, and it's just kind of intermixed in [Joel]'s DNA," says Druckmann."I find this really beautiful that it's like a mixture of Troy, a mixture of Pedro, a mixture of all this stuff that was built at Naughty Dog and rebuilt by this whole new crew, and an amazing cast under the HBO umbrella."
The show also expanded on the original game. In the final episode, we see Ellie's mother — now played by Ashley Johnson, the first actor to portray Ellie. Her performance deepens our knowledge of the setting, along with flashbacks across the world amid the zombie outbreak — scenes that are completely original to the adaptation.
As Druckmann puts it,"We're telling a story about love and loss, which is something that every single person that has lived long enough has experienced."Cyberpunk Edgerunners,
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