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“I like to think Gail has held everybody together” on The Last of USSays Catherine O’Hara.
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Spoilers Follow for the Sixth Episode of The Last of US’S Second Season, Which Premiered on Hbo May 18.

Given Catherine O’hara’s Body of Work, the News That The Canadian-Born Actress-Beloved for Role in Comedies Like Schitt’s Creek, Best in Show, Home Aloneand Beetlejuice – Wold Join The Last of US Was Unexpectted. But The Casting Paid Dividends. HBO’s zombie drama can be a Relationlessly depressing watch, and o’hara’s gail lynden, the lone therapist in postapocalyptic jackson, gives the series a pop of helps sell the jackson as a tangible, steadily rebuilding community. Gail brings a wry humor that pierces the makeup reality of the show’s world. In One Skene of Sunday’s Flashback-Heavy Episode, “The Price,” A Still-Alive Joel (Pedro Pascal) Drops in for an impromptu consultation a Little rudely, while gail eats a café. “You Guys Study Dreams and Stuff, right?” He asks. “Is there a ‘doctor is in’ sign on with like Lucy Lucy Fuckin ‘ Peanuts? ” She retorts.

Gail was specifically created for the show, and her presence emphasizs a few major theme threads this season: Joel’s Lie, Its Costs, and the Difficulty of Forgoveness. In flashbacks, we finally learn what happy to her husband, Eugene (Joe Pantoliano), an event that information her hostility toward joel in the Second Season’s Premiere. Joel and Ellie (Bella Ramsey) Respond to a Distress Call when they are enchounter a zombie-bitten eugene. Sticking to protocol, joel insists on killing the poor Guy, who Attempts to Bargain to See His Wife One Last Time. After Ellie Urges Compassion, Joel initially appeaars to Recent – Only to kill eugene once she and the Retrieves Their Horses. When Ellie Realies The Truth, She’s Devastaated.

The moment the mirrors the end of the first season: joel act on a decision that was to make and crafts a lie out of a belief that it is for the best. The Realization Deepens Ellie’s Skepticism Over What Happened in the Hospital in Salt Lake City. Later, Things come to a Head when Joel Trieste to Comfort Gail with a software of eugene’s Death and Ellie interruptions by telling the Truth, Shattering Both of them. “I think he’s a good man who just try to do the right Thing,” Says O’Hara from Los Angeles, Reflecting on Joel and HIS Relationship with Ellie. “She’s all he had.”

We don’t offten get to see you do a drama, especialy one as grip as The Last of US.
Right? Gee, what a world.

Gail Gets a Big Moment Near the End of this Episode when she learns About eugene’s death and the Additional revelation that joel has been lyen to her about the Circumstances. What was your experience filming that scene?
I’m glad they didn’t use so much of the crying. I was crying all day long. It was very emotionally and mentally taxing, and i just wanted to do a good jab. You give it your all every take. It is a Very Sad scene, but it was a fun process.

There was one take where i didn’t hear neil Druckmann, who directly the episode, “Cut,” SO I kept crying into Gabriel luna’s chest. I JUST DIDN’T HEAR The Word, SO I Kept Going. I was just crying into his chest and it went on and on and on. He’s Such a Dear Guy, Gabriel. He’s JUST HOLDING ON TO ME. He must’ve thought i suddenly tourned Method and i was going to live all the sorrow a widow could feed. Finally, I Lowered MySelf Away from HIS Body and Said, “Okay, i’m sorry. Can Someone Say ‘Cut’?” And Pedro was on the Ground Laughing. Mocking with! I do’t know what they thought i was doing.

Sounds like a fun set.
They’re Very lovely People. When you’ve got a great team in any line of work, it make you happy to show up.

You’ve spoken Elsewhere About Not Being Particularly Drawn to More Intense Material Because of the Headpace It Might Put you in. What convinced you to do the show?
When i Read Things, i will Think, Oh boy, how Much would i want that in my life? SO ONE OF MY FIRST THOUGHTS WITH THIS Script was, Will you have to meet the infected? It was nice to know i wasn’t going to. But i love the idea that there is a time a therapist in this world – and the fact that she would be only therapist in this town. How Could they Any Kind of Mental Stability Themselves? So the idea of ​​this one person was just dark and hilarious to me. Its Just Gooding, Too.

Gail Mirrors Ellie’s Position in that Moment: Joel Made Choices for Her and Eugene that we weren’t his to make. How do you interpret joel’s decision?
I Shot the scnee with joel when he was comes in for a session first, and i think craig mazin, the showrunner, probably told me vaguely what was going on, but i was nasty and angel with no. So i’m like, What is up her kilt? But God bless her, she know what he did.

He had to what he did in bot Cases. And from my point of view, and i would go too, too, Having some semblancing of reality and justice in the world, joel did what he did to protest the People he loved. He waistive he was protesting ellie when he killed everyone else to escape with her. He did it out of love and care. Same with Eugene. He was protesting Everyone in the Town. That was the rule: when someone infected, Put Him Down. I think he a good man who’s trying to do the right Thing for the Same of Others, not for Himself.

I Mean, Saving Ellie and Killing A Bunch of People at the Hospital was Kind of Selfish.
But he’s saving her. He might not be saving everyone Else who Might’ve Developed a cure, but in that moment, i would think, If there is one person who has positive immunity vaccination to this Disease, maybe there are oters. So why shouldn’t i save her? I love her. She’s all he had.

I like how we learn in this episode that gail is prepy spiky before she loses eugene. We see this in the café scene wel’s nansing her about moths.
I know! IT’s so funny. “Finally have a moment Alone, Okay?”

Was that already in the script, or was that that something you brought to the character?
No, that was in the script. Craig directly that. It was Very Clear and Has a great sense of humor about it all – iTi’s very dramatic, but the moments where you are need in life are your dinner. AFTER DOING THERAPY-SECEND WITH PEDRO, I KNEW The Dynamic Craig Wanted from Her Point of View. In the café, she’s just trying to get a moment. He’s not her only patient, you know?

In the Skene, Gail is Reading George R. Stewart’s 1949 Novel Earth Abideswhich My Colleague Described nor The “Granddaddy of all postapocalptic tales.”
Wait, No, Really? That’s what she She reads to escape? That’s great. Boy, She’s All About Reality.

What’s Your Own Relationship with Postapocalyptic Fiction? Do you watch Many Zombie Movies?
No, not really. Too Scary. I watch this show and i’m like, No, no, no, please no.

One More Quick Question About the Café Schene: Are You Wearing Maple-Leaf Earrings?
Yes! They’re mine.

Is that your way to sneak canadian pride into your projects?
Oh yeah. I’m hoping to be up there is next week, in fact. I love My Dear Country.

I do’t think i’ve ever consider the role of a therapist in a postapocalyptic society before. IT’S A HOLDOVER FROM CIVILIZATION AS WE KNOW IT, but with Mushroom Zombies Running Around and Everynding, Its Maybe Too Much for Just One Person to Have.
She’s Says that in the scene with Tommy when she’s watching the baseball game – that she needs a therapist for herself, but there’s nobody. I’m sura it was eugene for her. They got Stoned Together, and they escaped the reality of their lives, and now he gone.

Is Gail a Good Therapist?
Yes. Come on! You don’t see anyone taking their Own lives. Oh that’s terrible, that wasn’t funny, sorry. Look how together that town is! In the Second Episode, when the infected attack, you see how prepared and supportive they are of each Other, just living the Fear of Horror Happiness. I like to think Gail has held everybody together. That’s how they’re aBle to do what they need to.

LAST THING: I ALSO REALLY ENJOYED The Studio. Congratulations on the Second-Season Renewal.
Thank you!

WERE YOU SURPRISED BY THE RESPONSE TO THAT SHOW?
Yes! It’s all timing. You never really know how they are. So Many Good Things Never Get Seen by People, and a Lot of Crap Becomes Popular. But it’s so well made and funny. Set is so good in it. Everybody is. The which Oner Idea-We Shot Ten-Page Scenes in One Over and Over. It was so great and fun to do.

I Imagine Another great Thing About Doing The Studio is that it is in la, so you don’t have to be far from home.
Yes. And it won’t be affected by the tariffs.