Adam B. Vary Senior Entertainment Writer HBO’s “The Last of Us” is filling out its supporting cast for Season 2 with six actors, Variety has learned exclusively.
They are Joe Pantoliano (“Bad Boys for Life,” “The Matrix”), Alanna Ubach (“Euphoria”), Ben Ahlers (“The Gilded Age”), Hettienne Park (“Hannibal”), Robert John Burke (“Law & Order: Special Victims Unit”) and Noah Lamanna (“Star Trek: Strange New Worlds”).
Pantoliano is playing Eugene, a small character from video game “The Last of Us Part II” that will be expanded on the show, similar to the Emmy-winning Bill and Frank stand-alone episode from Season 1.
In the game, Ellie (played by Bella Ramsey on the show) and her friend Dina (Isabel Merced on the show), talk about Eugene when they stumble upon the lab he used to grow cannabis.
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