Our End Season 2 It is scheduled to be released in 2025 and the cast is being expanded by adding new characters. It has been revealed that the actor who plays Abby, Kaitlyn Dever, had to provide extra security on set due to concerns about the film. famous toxic response around The Last of Us Part 2's other hero.
Isabela Merced, who plays Dina, appeared in a recent episode of Josh Horowitz Happy Sad Confused podcasts (through ScreenReproach) Dever reportedly took extra security measures during the shoot to avoid any potential incidents with angry fans or other weirdos online. “There are people who really hate Abby, who is not a real person. Just a reminder, she is not a real person,” Merced said. “And so Kaitlyn had to go through extra security measures with security during this shoot.”
There’s no evidence that Dever’s other cast members received direct threats, but the producers of the HBO adaptation’s second season seemed sufficiently concerned about potential disruptions or worse that they took precautionary measures to prevent any danger. It may sound absurd, but Abby has become a unique lightning rod for unstable anger in some corners of gaming culture.
To understand why, we'll need to share a few spoilers. The Last of Us Part 2Consider this a warning if you haven't played the game yet or don't want to know what it is. it could be will take place later in the HBO version of the series.
A major plot development The Last of Us 2 It's a bit of a backstory, and was so controversial when it was first discovered that some gamers began harassing the game studio Naughty Dog before it was even released. The first game starred Joel (played by Pedro Pascal in the series), but the tough, stern male avatar is killed off early on by Abby in the sequel, and for good reason. The shocking death sets Ellie on her own bloody quest for revenge, sending the series into darker, more inhuman places.
When some When fans of the first game found out, they started sending death threats to players and developers. Joel's death was seen as a betrayal by director Neil Druckmann and others, even though it was the story they wanted to tell. Things got so bad that the studio was forced to go public with the hate campaign.
“You can either love the game or hate it and share your thoughts about it” Druckmann he wrote on Twitter at the time“Unfortunately, many of the messages I receive are disgusting, hateful and violent.” He shared screenshots of messages that included homophobic, transphobic, anti-Semitic and other hateful language. One message read in part: “I hope covid-19 kills your entire toxic feminist studio.”
Laura Bailey, who plays Abby in the play, described the nightmarish episode taught him to stay away from the publicThe outrage campaign included threats against her parents and even her son, who was born during the game's development. Given this history, it's no surprise that the HBO series would take extra precautions to protect the TV version of Abby.
Our End There’s still a long way to go in Season 2, and Druckmann and producer Craig Mazin have said the adaptation could run for up to four seasons. It seems plausible, even likely, that the most polarizing developments won’t happen for a while, assuming they stay on the show.