{"id":78885,"date":"2022-09-26T20:02:00","date_gmt":"2022-09-26T20:02:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/the-last-of-us-melanie-lynskey-casting-revealed-in-hbo-trailer\/"},"modified":"2022-09-26T20:02:00","modified_gmt":"2022-09-26T20:02:00","slug":"the-last-of-us-melanie-lynskey-casting-revealed-in-hbo-trailer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/the-last-of-us-melanie-lynskey-casting-revealed-in-hbo-trailer\/","title":{"rendered":"‘The Last of Us’: Melanie Lynskey Casting Revealed in HBO Trailer"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Your eyes are not deceiving you \u2014 Melanie Lynskey is indeed in HBO’s The Last of Us<\/em>. <\/p>\n

\u201cSurprise!\u201d the yellowjackets<\/em> star exclaimed on twitter<\/a> Monday, shortly after her stealth casting was revealed in the series’ first official trailer (watch above).<\/p>\n

When one of Lynskey’s 154K followers asked her how she came to be involved in HBO’s adaptation of the wildly popular video game, the actress explained that she is a \u201cfan\u201d of The Last of Us<\/em>‘ co-creator Craig Mazin.<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, TVLine has learned that Lynskey is playing Kathleen, the ruthless leader of a revolutionary movement in Kansas City.<\/p>\n

Set two decades after the implosion of current-day society, The Last of Us<\/em> \u2014 which is slated to debut in 2023 \u2014 centers on Joel (The Mandalorian<\/em>‘s Pedro Pascal), a tough survivor, who is hired to smuggle a 14-year-old girl named Ellie (game of Thrones<\/em>‘ Bella Ramsey) out of an \u201coppressive\u201d quarantine zone, per the official synopsis. \u201cWhat starts as a small job soon becomes a brutal, heartbreaking journey, as they both must traverse\u201d across a US ravaged by a lethal disease called the Cordyceps fungus \u201cand depend on each other for survival.\u201d<\/p>\n

The cast also includes Anna Torv (fringe<\/em>), Storm Reid (euphoria<\/em>), Nick Offerman (Parks and Recreation<\/em>), Gabriel Luna (Marvel’s Agents of SHIELD<\/em>), Merle Dandridge (greenleaf<\/em>), Nico Parker (The Third Day<\/em>), Murray Bartlett (The White Lotus<\/em>) and Con O’Neill (Chernobyl<\/em>).<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n