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HBO’s The Closing of Us has featured expertly forged cameos from the distinctive stars of the Prankish Dog games, from Ashley Johnson (Ellie) to Troy Baker (Joel), Merle Dandridge (Marlene) to Jeffrey Pierce (Tommy).
And the series’ extremely emotional finale featured an true treat for followers of The Closing of Us Share II: a cameo from Laura Bailey, who played complicated antagonist Abby Anderson in the sport’s sequel.
Within the closing sequence in some unspecified time in the future of Joel’s rampage in the course of the Firefly health facility, in some unspecified time in the future of which he kills endless Fireflies on his path to rescue Ellie from the surgical treatment that would establish humankind (but no longer Ellie), Joel burst into the running theatre. As Ellie lies sedated on the running desk, a health care provider and two nurses are prepping for the activity. Joel infrequently affords the physician time to react earlier than taking pictures him ineffective, and the two nurses stand trembling as he unhooks Ellie from the machines.
One of those nurses is played by Laura Bailey, who voiced Abby in the sport. Abby’s character is unquestionably one of the essential more morally advanced and deliberately polarising of the games, in particular given her actions at the starting of the sport — including her hyperlink to his very scene in the health facility.
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Precisely why this cameo is so becoming, I will leave ambiguous for now, as it be going to be if truth be told one of the essential wide twists of Season 2.
Whether or no longer or no longer Bailey can even assemble an look in Season 2 remains to be seen — and director Craig Mazin and co-creator Neil Druckmann have not ruled out casting her in some other role. “I mean, she’s got a conceal on, so we are in a position to assemble her the rest we desire in the subsequent season,” Mazin told a press conference, as reported by EW(Opens in a brand novel tab).
Druckmann also reportedly spoke about Bailey’s first seek recommendation from to the location, and hinted at its importance. “[Bailey] despatched me this very, very amusing picture that she took the day that they shot that scene,” he acknowledged. “On fable of some other time, for those that know who she plays in the in the subsequent chronicle, it be very worthy linked to that running room. So perchance when the season’s over, I will tweet that picture up for her.”
And of us, he did.
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Shannon Connellan is Mashable’s UK Editor essentially based fully in London, beforehand Mashable’s Australia Editor, but emotionally, she lives in the Creel Home.
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