One of the biggest questions surrounding HBO's The Last of Us Season 2 is who will play Abby. Fans of the games know that Abby is a critical character in The Last of Us Part II, and is sure to get a huge amount of screentime in HBO's adaptation of the sequel. Without getting into spoiler territory, Abby is certainly the new character The Last of Us fans are most interested in getting casting news for.
In a new interview with THR, The Last of Us showrunner Craig Mazin teased that they may have already found their Abby.
"Maybe," Mazin said with a laugh when asked if he knows who will play Abby in the series.
"The strike stopped us in our tracks. Things were in process. Look, Abby was the first role that we wanted to tackle. We’ve got a pretty good track record of making major cast announcements and people going, 'Really?' which will probably continue. So people may disagree, but I think we got it right so far and the audience seems to feel we got it right and the Academy seems to feel we got it right."
Mazin's right in that the casting choices so far have garnered huge critical acclaim, with both Pedro Pascal and Bella Ramsey getting Emmy nominations for their performances as Joel and Ellie. Fans are waiting to see who will join Pascal and Ramsey on the cast, but with the ongoing strikes in Hollywood, it's unclear when announcements and production on The Last of Us Season 2 will get back underway.
Whenever we do eventually see more of Season 2, we know that it will adapt at least part of 2020's The Last of Us Part II. Mazin has previously teased that Part II will take more than one season of television to adapt, which will be a big difference from the show's first season that told the entire story of the original game.
For more, check out Mazin's comments about featuring "a lot more infected" in Season 2, and watch us try to predict a rough outline of Season 2's episodes.
Logan Plant is a freelance writer for IGN covering video game and entertainment news. He has over seven years of experience in the gaming industry with bylines at IGN, Nintendo Wire, Switch Player Magazine, and Lifewire. Find him on Twitter @LoganJPlant.
