Not someone who I pictured as Joel, but he's a great actor so I'm fine with this casting.
Bella Ramsey is going to play Ellie, good choice imo.
Great casting choices all around.
shareNeither one of them look ANYTHING like the characters.Isn't Joel Southern too? I just don't see it.
I was hoping for Anson Mount, Josh Brolin, or Nikolaj Coster-Waldau. Hell, Hugh Jackman would work.
It's not just about the looks, it's more about being a good actor and having the right kind of attitude to play the character. It remains to be seen if this cast will work but I like both choices.
shareJoel is a white man from Texas. His name is Joel Miller. Pedro is Chilean. It's like casting Jackie Chan to play Luke Cage.
shareI think Pedro Pascal can easily pass as a dude from Texas called Joel Miller.
I think you need glasses.
shareWhite Americans and Europeans can only play villains now. A white South American is sufficiently "minority" to fill a hero role in case a black actor is not available.
shareI know you are using hyperbole to make a point, but I hear ya. What was it they just announce? Anne Bolyen or some Jane Austen character is a black women? Frankly, I don't give a shit if people want to make different interpretations, but the way liberals stomp their feet if a white person takes a minority role, but celebrate it when the roles are reversed is blatant hypocrisy.
shareMaybe those guys were too expensive and Pascal is cheaper? Nah. Who am I kidding. It's because Pascal is marginally a minority. As an ethnic Spaniard from Chile, he's an oppressed descendant of the Conquistadors who slaughtered the natives of Central and South America. Much better than a nasty North American or Northern European oppressor.
shareBiggest problem I have is the age factor. Joel is in his early-to -mid 60's, and in his early 70's for TLoU2. Pascal is 20 years too young to be in this part.
He is a fine actor, but he's not going to get that old age thing right.
..Joe
Joel isn't that old and the show takes place during the first games events when Joel was in his early 50s so Pascal's age is fine.
shareYou're out of your mind, guy. Joel was in his early 30's at the beginning of 'The Last of Us', when the outbreak started and his daughter was alive. He was in his early 50's for most of the game, after they jumped to "20 years later." And then he was in his late 50's when he was murdered in 'Part 2', because Ellie went from 14 to 19.
How in the holy hell could you figure him for his 70's??? LOL!
It was 20 years later, that puts him him close 60. If Sarah was born when he was 25, and she was 12 when he died, that made him 37; now add 20 years, and you're getting nearer 60 than 50. The game takes a whole year to transpire. Even closer to 60.
Why would you think he fathered Sarah at 19? Then add the 9 months for her birth when he was 20, to get to your numbers. That would also mean his younger brother was 17 or so during the initial part of the game. Might be hard for you guys to comprehend, but many people get married and have children; they're not all products of a drunken hookup when they're teens.
The events of TLoU2 take place 5 years after the game, which went through a full year. So I might have been a little out on his age but he was close to 70 when he died.
Sarah wasn't born when he was 25. Where'd you get that? He told Ellie in Pt. 1 that the main reason he never had a chance to go to college was because Sarah was born when he was really young. That means he was probably in high school, or fresh out of high school, when she was born. So again, he was in his early 30s when she died, his early 50s for most of the first game, and his mid to late 50s when he died.
shareYep this is correct. In fact the official description for the character says he was born in 'the early 1980s' and is 'in his late 40s' in 2033 when he first meets Ellie. So he would have been late 20s when Sarah died and he was only about 16 or 17 when she was born, which makes sense as to why he never went to college.
So Pedro Pascal being 46 is pretty much just a couple of years short of Joel's age in 2033 when the events of the first game take place.
Pedro Pascal as Pedo Joel
shareOberyn Martell of Dorne has to escort Lady Lyanna of House Mormont across Essos as she is immune to Greyscale and the key to a cure.
Sorry, I just Binged GoT.