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Spoilers aboutepisode five ofThe Last of Us,Endure and Survive, follow.
Butsweetis the last word youd use to describe her role as Kathleen onThe Last of Us.
Lynskeytweeted back, Im playing a person who meticulously planned & executed an overthrow of FEDRA.
I am supposed to be SMART, maam.
I dont need to be muscly.
Kathleen is not in the game.
I had heard him talk about it with this absolute reverence.
But Ive never been able to play video games or focus on them.
I tune out a bit.
But I knew Craig personally.
He called me and said, Im going to ask you to play a war criminal.
And you were fine, but nobody really felt that way about you.
I wonder if having a sibling who is so revered would push her further toward ruthlessness.
She had all those feelings.
She wasnt a person who connected easily.
On one hand, he kept her safe through a chaotic childhood and the end of the world.
Youre not ruthless enough.
But Jason was like, Are you insane?Its the greatest video game of all time.
Craig sent me this amazing email that was like, Heres fun stuff to do in Calgary.
He was like, Im going to make this as easy as possible.
Do you should probably bring your nanny?
Do you need a house?
Do you should probably be right by a playground?
I was like,Okay, when you sent me the scripts, I was sold.
Sometimes you just push through your exhaustion if its worth it.
How did you know Craig before this?I met him at an in-personMafiagame at Steve Zississ house.
We really hit it off.
Every time I had a party, he would come over.
At the beginning of the pandemic, he and I put together ZoomMafiagames that were increasingly elaborate.
We did ones where everyone was a special character.
We had special Slack channels to communicate with everybody.
It was really fun.
Did you know upfront that Kathleen would be killed?Yes, I did.
What was it like to shoot the scene where shes killed by one of the infected?
Everyone was a stunt performer or an acrobat covered in makeup that had taken hours and hours.
It was one of the most overwhelming, incredible things Ive ever experienced.
I just wanted to clap.
People had been training for weeks, and there was coordinated action.
Its the biggest thing Ive ever been part of.
The death was actually pretty easy to film because things were running so smoothly.
The first assistant director, Paul Domick, was so on top of it.
He really knew how to run a set.
It was freezing cold.
Did it feel scary when you were filming it?It was disgusting, honestly.
It looked real the level of detail of the makeup.
There are things that look like rivers of blood running through and turning into these mushrooms.
Peoples whole faces are covered.
It looked awful, and it was scary.
Theres a tiny child covered in fungus flying as fast as she can at your face.
I feel like the show was made with so much humanity.
Then, just seeing it, I couldnt believe how profound it was.
Kathleen is so focused on finding Henry that it becomes her entire lifes purpose.
If she hadnt been killed, what was her plan for when she found him?
Then what would her purpose become after that?That was the thing.
Shes just like,Fuck, thats my brothers best friend.
She ignores the fact that all these infected are coming up from the ground.
That was such a sad moment.
This interview has been edited and condensed.
