‘They Wanted Me to Drink Their Saliva’: Pedro Pascal and Steven Yeun on Zombies and Road Rage
variety.comAdapted from the video game of the same name, HBO’s “The Last of Us” finds Pedro Pascal’s Joel in a post-apocalyptic landscape not unlike “The Walking Dead,” the zombie series that gave Steven Yeun his breakout role in 2010.
As Yeun returns to TV in the Netflix series “Beef,” which chronicles a gnarly feud sparked by a road rage incident between a contractor (Yeun) and a vengeful business owner (Ali Wong), he and Pascal discuss humility (including Pascal’s faceless performance in “The Mandalorian”), shame and the chaos of driving through Los Angeles on 4/20. STEVEN YEUN: How much did you know about “The Last of Us”? PEDRO PASCAL: Ugh, next question. YEUN: OK, cool. PASCAL: I didn’t know anything about the game.
The first things that came to me were the scripts written by Craig Mazin. I was like, “This story is amazing.” And my nephews were like, “It’s a video game, you idiot!” YEUN: I feel weirdly connected to you in a multitude of ways.
One is when I was shooting “The Walking Dead” — a show that is kind of spiritually connected to your show — the Last of Us game came out, and I played it 12 hours straight. PASCAL: Are you serious? YEUN: I remember finishing it and then coming to set the next day being catatonic.
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