This article contains spoilers of The last of us Final of season 2, “Convergence”.
It can be difficult to say when the young Mazino is suffered. The 33 year old man Beef The star generally gives off relaxed vibrations, without hassle, whether on stage in front of hundreds in the Sxsw of Austin or twinned with its more energetic Costar Isabela Merced during the assault of press interviews for The last of us. But trust when Mazino said in mid-May that he “crawls on my hands and knees to the finish line”.
He’s zooming from New York, where he has just wrapped the last stage of his promotional tour for the HBO drama, in which he plays Jesse, Bella RamseyBesties on the screen that surprises her in Seattle during her revenge mission. Mazino appeared the day before The Tonight Showwhere he dazzled the host Jimmy Fallon with his guitar game and maybe Slide too on the state of Pedro Pascal‘s joel. But what can he say? “I’m not good with spoilers,” he said Weekly entertainment.
As fate would have done, it is the end of these media rounds that are the most important for his character, Jesse. In the final of season 2, as he seems that he had convinced Ellie (Ramsey) to give up his suicide mission and return home to Jackson with him, Dina (Merced) and Tommy (Gabriel Luna), Abby (Kaitlyn Dever) Arrives… and it is pissed off.
Someone killed her friends one by one, and she is shocked to learn that she was the same girl that she spared after having brutally executed Joel in front of her. Ellie and Jesse broke out through the doors of the theater, and BAM! Before seeing Abby fully keep Tommy hostage, she shoots Jesse Dead in the Face – the last victim of a long trail of corpses.
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Mazino fully accepted the fate of his character before his first meeting with showrunners Craig Mazin and Neil Druckmann. He played a speed of PlayStation speed The last of us part II (2020) until Jesse’s death. “Then, I put the controller and I said to myself:” I’m ready, “he said. “This is what I needed.”
The actor now appreciates more a previous prefiguration. In episode 2, while Jesse and Ellie share Eugene Stash’s grass in 7-Eleven, he comments on the old firefly, “F — In ‘Shame. Guy wage war, end up going out like that. Whadydya will do? I couldn’t be saved.”
“It’s like a strange premonition,” he notes at this time. “No one is safe. It’s just very cut and dry. You sometimes get pulled. You don’t do your CQB correctly in panic and boom! Your life is over. It’s very realistic, and it happens all the time in real life.”
Although this happens so quickly, that the fall of Mazino technically took a blow and required a specific choreography. Jesse died before he touches the ground, so he had to hit the ground like a cloth doll while deliberately landing in the same place for continuity. He wanted to do it himself, even during the covers where he was not necessarily necessary for the blows. “This scene is so important,” he said. “This is another rope that is cut by Abby, and Ellie records this. I wanted Ellie to have the best performance by being there and so that she could connect to that instead of the cascade doubles or a non -human figure.”
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However, it was trying in a way you don’t think normally. “The first 10 times you fall, that’s good,” he notes, “but on the 15th, 20th, you somehow feel the composition effects to fall on the ground like that.”
It is not clear if Jesse de Mazino will return, although the players await him. The last of us part IIReleased on PlayStation 4 in 2020, allowed players to live the story first as Ellie before returning in time to tell the same sequence of events but from the point of view of Abby. The flashback at the end of season 2 indicates that season 3 will adopt a similar approach, which means that many characters who died will already return to various titles.
Mazino, once again, refers to the spoiler leak on his Tonight show Interview on the reasons why Mazin and Druckmann have not yet given him the full plan for season 3. “For a good reason, they were cryptic on this subject,” he comments, “but I think that at some point (Mazin) told me Jesse and Tommy, they go f — s — Up, or something according to the lines.”
In the event that Jesse is part of this continuous story, it remains so much to unpack with the character. “When you catch him in episode 5, he has already crossed some S —“, continues Mazino. “There are no jokes, there is no lightness, he is not happy, he looks at nothing halfway.
Mazino recognizes the change that occurs after Joel’s death and the infected attack on Jackson. He was A person who looked at the glass as half full and actively tried to help their community rebuild. Mazino refers to a deleted scene from season 2 in which Ellie is joking about how Jesse has become the youngest member to serve as a advice. It occurs in the context of episode 3 during the training session in the Ellie garage.
“She is like, ‘I heard that you had the advice … Why? Because you suck Dick’ ‘, or” you are so much darkness “or something”, recalls Mazino. “He says to himself:” No, because one of the members of the council was shot dead and is dead. That’s why I am there. “It was so funny when we turned this. “”
After episode 3, something changes. The relatives of Jesse, Ellie and Dina, have swayed on what is indeed a suicide mission. He is angry. He no longer understands their motivations but recognizes that things have disappeared. And then when he leaves to help, he loses his life just when he learns that he is going to be a father.
Mazino is a bit existentialistic. “In this world, and in life in general, people tend to have such a feeling of swollen importance in the face of the universe and emptiness, but in reality, we are dust. We are only grains of sand in the desert,” he said. “So, as tragic as it is, it is a fact of life. In order not to make it commonplace, but, yes, it is so sad that someone who cares about Jesse, so that he does all good things. You follow all the rules and you never do good things and your life can end like that. You never see the child you name and you never find this love.”
He is also very aware of “the agitation on the internet” of this season of the series. Many games have expressed their criticism of how creators have adapted certain events, from Abby’s revelation as the daughter of Doctor Joel killed in season 1 with the less intense behavior of Ellie than what is represented in source material.
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“People have their reproaches or anything, but I simply implore that people watch him holistically from start to finish,” said Mazino. “Everything is linked. It is intertwined. It requires a certain media mastery, not only linear tricks of cookie, but everything sweeps in this epic thing. The more you let it sit – I spoke to Isabela about this last night – it ages like wine at the moment.
Regardless of criticism, this role marks another impressive notch on Mazino’s ascending career, although it also addresses this traction in such a realistic way as it approaches its character. He is a person who abandoned his full -time job to continue the theater, only for a world pandemic to upset these plans. He landed Beef After the end of COVVI-19 locking, but the actors and writers strikes led Hollywood to stop, break from the production of the production of The last of us.
“At this stage, I am much more reflux and flow of industry,” he comments. “Find work, The last of us Or Beefis not guaranteed. And knowing how rare an opportunity like these things, I learned to really practice gratitude and cherish experiences and the community between the two shows. “”
Mazino always looks like that, even in front of such a long promotional tour. “I really believe that it would be so difficult to have a world tour of the press, a first thing if it was not something I was proud to be part,” he added. However, he is ready to enjoy the free time: “I’m going to find pockets, yes.”