Merle Dandridge reveals the biggest changes to Marlene in the TheLastOfUs series.
It’s hard to believe that we’re just a few short weeks from The Last of Us’ premiere. Based on the popular video game franchise of the same name, the series is set to be one of the most authentic adaptations the gaming industry has ever seen. From the screen-accurate costumes to the direction to the performances, The Last of Us already completely feels like the games that inspired it. However, this series also carries over a key casting choice in Merle Dandridge’s Marlene.
“Bella and Pedro’s Ellie and Joel have a different twinkle than Ashley [Johnson] and Troy [Baker]. It was an absolute privilege to be able to open my eyes, open my spirit, and let Marlene experience and breathe them in, in a new way,” Dandridge explains. She goes on to also describe her conversations with showrunners Craig Mazin and Neil Druckmann about wearing a wig for the first time:
Marlene's Importance in The Last of Us Marlene in the games is such a rich and complex character whose intentions are good, but her execution is morally flawed, to say the least. It’s a character that could have easily come off as one note, but Dandridge brought so much understandable weighty humanity to the role in the games. She is part of one of the most jaw-dropping twists/endings the gaming world has ever seen.
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