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A core memory related toThe Last of Usis seared intoKaitlyn Dever’s mind.
“And they were actually making the second game when I was there.
“Talk about spoiler alerts…
Kaitlyn Dever’s Abby, Bella Ramsey’s Ellie in ‘The Last of Us’ season 2.Credit:Liane Hentscher/HBO (2)
He did ask me, ‘Do you want to know what happens?’
I was like, ‘Yeah, tell me!’
So I’ve been keeping that secret for years.”
Nolan North’s Nathan Drake in ‘Uncharted 4’.Sony Computer Entertainment
The movie, however, never came together.
As of 2015, Druckmann toldGame Informerthat they assembled various actors for a table read of the current script.
Dever was one of those actors reading for Ellie.
Dever, however, remained in the Naughty Dog family.
Dever’s Cassie appears at the very end of 2016’sUncharted 4: A Thief’s Endin a playable epilogue.
“It was so cool to do because I’d never done mo-cap work,” she recalls.
Dever remembers getting a call from her agent about the showrunners wanting to sit down for a meeting.
“I had already seen season 1, and I was obsessed with it,” she confesses.
It all feels to Dever like one of those stranger-than-fiction moments.
Kaitlyn Dever’s Abby arrives on ‘The Last of Us’ season 2.Max
“It’s his favorite thing,” she says.
“I always thought aboutThe Last of Us…. “They both have rage,” she says.
