Interesting Facts About ''The Last of Us'' (18 pics)

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"The Last of Us" is the first HBO series to be based on a video game.

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Bella Ramsey said she and Pedro Pascal were “advised, encouraged, and ordered to stay away from the game.” But they both disobeyed orders and played anyway.

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The Clicker sound is made by the same two actors who did the male and female Clicker voices in the video game.

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While filming the joke book scenes, Bella Ramsey turned to on-set inside jokes to make Pedro Pascal laugh when the puns got "unfunny" after so many takes.

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Ramsey revealed it was ONE DEGREE FAHRENHEIT when they filmed episode 8. "It was very, very cold. That scene where I meet David and James in the forest was the coldest day that we shot. My voice sort of changes a bit in that scene. … It's so hard to speak normally when it's that cold, like your mouth just doesn't work

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The original voice and motion capture actor who portrayed Joel in the video game played Troy Barker in episode 8.

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The original voice and motion capture actor, Ashley Johnson, who played Ellie in the video game played Ellie's mother in the season finale.

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The first season has 46-year old Pedro Pascal portray a 56-year old Joel.

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While Ellie is fighting a clicker in episode 5, the actor got a little too into their role and actually gave Bella a black eye. "I got so many bruises, and I actually got a real black eye at one point," she said. "He was flailing around dying during a take, and he accidentally, the poor guy, whacked me in the eye. I was so proud of it. I had a great time."

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Both Pedro Pascal and Bella Ramsey appeared in HBO's "Game of Thrones." Pascal portrayed Oberyn Martell and Ramsay appeared as Lyanna Mormont.

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Pedro Pascal forgot he was cast as Joel. "I took an Ambien to go to sleep, because they had my adrenaline going and my hopes up," he said. The only problem was that when he woke up the next morning, he'd forgotten taking the call the night before. "I woke up in the morning, and the first thing that occurred to me was like, Oh man, I really want that job.'" But when he finally looked at his phone and saw texts congratulating him on landing the role, he was like, "Oh yeah, I got the job!" 

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During the reunion scene between Joel and his brother, Pedro Pascal cried during every single take, even when he wasn't on camera. Director Jasmila Žbanić said, "I was filming Pedro as a second; first we filmed Gabriel, and then, I noticed that each time we repeated, Pedro was crying. He was not on camera, but he was crying because he was giving his partner everything so that he can act. This is very special," she said. "It’s so generous of an actor to do this so deep. I was amazed by Pedro’s talent."

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Bella Ramsey got so used to speaking with an American accent that it was hard to switch back, saying “When I first got home, I found it difficult to settle back into being just Bella and speaking with a British accent again.”

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The huge fight scene at the end of Episode 5 was done using practical effects, and was shot over the course of three weeks.

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Gabriel Luna couldn't help but take some custom-made props from set. "Well, a few things fell off the costume truck and somehow ended up in my bag," he joked. "One of which being a beautiful belt buckle that was made by an 85-year-old craftsman there in Calgary, Alberta."

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"The Last of Us" (2013) has won over 200 Game of the Year awards, making it one of the most acclaimed and successful games of all time. Its sequel, "The Last of Us: Part II" (2020) would go on to beat that record seven years later.