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One of the things that we
talked about for a while...
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"How do you start this show?"
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It was an enormous
undertaking for everyone.
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I wouldn't want it to deliver
CG pew-pew,
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but to deliver... reality.
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Two, one, action!
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Negative degree temperatures,
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with the wind machine
going like this...
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Yeah, so that was hard.
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And fun. It was so fun.
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The amount of detail
is incredible.
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The color schemes, the textures,
how things would flourish.
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There's everything on this show.
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From big scopes of airplanes
to smaller tendrils.
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You're immediately
just so immersed in
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The Last of Us world.
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Shooting in Canada,
we're not doing anything small.
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It was quite the endeavor.
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I remember
when the game came out,
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there were so
many people saying,
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"This needs to be
made into a live action."
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I was in conflict with it at first because
I was like, "We've already done it.
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We've shot it, we've
performed it, we've edited it.
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Why do we need to go
in and do this again?"
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Neil said, "At the
end of the day,
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there are people out there that
will never pick up a controller,
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and they will never
experience this story.
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And I think our story is special
enough to bring it to them."
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The HBO series,
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uh, I don't remember
when I first heard about it,
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but when I did, I was like,
"Mommy want that."
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'Cause I knew it was
gonna be spectacular,
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especially when I heard
that it was a collaboration
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and that Neil would
also be involved.
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When you're casting
these iconic characters,
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these characters are iconic
in a cinematic way already.
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So now, it's like,
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we need to find someone
that can elevate it
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or make it their own in
a really interesting way
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so it doesn't feel like
they're just duplicating
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this other medium.
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I learned very quickly
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the massive fanbase
that I was stepping into.
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I called my sister
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to tell her about the
possibility of the job.
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And she was in the
car with my nephews.
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I didn't even get the S and
T out from the word "Last"
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when I said it.
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"There's this job, it's
based on a video game.
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It's called The La..."
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And they were like,
"The Last of Us?!"
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And I was like, okay, I
definitely have to do this.
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I was actually
advised not to play the game,
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so that I wouldn't
try and like copy
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Ashley Johnson's version
of Ellie, which is incredible.
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But I just watched some
of the gameplay though,
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secretly, on my own.
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When I met
Bella for the first time,
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I was so excited
because, obviously,
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I'd seen her in Game of Thrones.
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And seeing her in person
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and even just seeing her
on set and doing scenes,
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she has the essence
of Ellie already in her.
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Seven, eight, fuck... you.
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What's incredible
about what they've done
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with these scripts,
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was to be able to explore
and nourish things that I think
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are very much a part of
the experience of the game.
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One of those things
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is the internal life
of these characters.
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And to really get into the flesh
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of what's happening
inside of them.
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You want to know
what the biggest surprise
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of adapting The Last of Us is?
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It's the Neil Druckmann,
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the genius who made
the game in the first place,
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who created this
story, these characters,
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the whole world,
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he was so generous
and flexible and smart
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about how to
re-present The Last of Us
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in a different format to
a whole new audience.
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The scientific vision that
the show presents to people
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is based absolutely in reality.
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That fungus is real, it
does those things to insects,
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and if it were to be
able to infect humans,
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it would go like that.
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It's terrifying.
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We want people to feel the
reality of the science here.
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Cordyceps, it's a fungus.
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And what that fungus does
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is it attaches to the
brain stem of an ant,
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takes motor control
of the ant's body,
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and then attacks the
rest of the ant colony,
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spreading the disease and
devouring the other ants.
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Fungus is a funny word,
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but there's so much
more of it than we realize.
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Pretty much anywhere
you see grass,
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there's fungus
right underneath it.
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They're connected.
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More than you know.
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One of the
changes that Neil and I felt
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we needed to make early on
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was the way the
fungus would spread.
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We loved the idea of biting.
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We thought that that
was primal and violent.
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But we started looking at
something called mycelium,
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which are these threads
that make up fungus.
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And those threads,
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if they get into an
insect, for instance,
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that's what starts
to worm its way
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towards the insect's brain.
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Barrie Gower and his
team did this beautiful work
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to mesh humans
and fungus together.
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Initially, we'd
created various practical tendrils,
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which was basically
like a dental plate
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that we had inside the
infected character's mouth,
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which had all these little
silicon cords joined to.
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As soon as you pulled away,
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everything started to...
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Practically, it looked great.
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I think the reality of it
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was going to be the
resettability on the day.
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Having huge, big fungal
pieces all over the head,
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as soon as you took
the eyebrows away,
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you started veering
into zombie territory.
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When
it has more of a human side,
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more of a beautiful side,
it makes it even scarier.
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As a person, you
can relate to it more.
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From an infected point of view,
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we had the first-stage infected.
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Very shortly after
they've been bitten,
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there's a lot of redness,
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a lot of tenderness
around the skin.
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Stage two, tiny little things
start breaking through the skin.
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They're a bit like the cordyceps
you actually see on ants
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or spiders when they've
taken over by the fungus.
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Stage three is a slightly
bigger version of that
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where you've got real mushrooms
that you can begin to see.
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Until you get to stage five,
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where the head
shape is distorting.
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Just basically
breaks through the cranium
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and just splits the
skull down the front,
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and you have these
huge sort of blooms,
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these sort of petals.
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No, I didn't want
to look at them.
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I didn't want that in my
head to go home and sleep,
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and then you have to be kind of,
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you're like, "Hi! How
are you?"
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And it's not just kind
of what they look like,
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it's the physicality and
the way that they move
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is what makes them so
creepy. But impressive.
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Not just the
prosthetic, obviously,
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but the inhabiting of it.
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Coming from visual effects,
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I think the clicker performances
can be quite challenging
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just 'cause they're
very specific.
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He just had this really
amazing performance
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and movement study to him.
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Those are the type of things
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that is quite difficult
to reproduce digitally.
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These are a lot of
our very early concept and busts.
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We're following real
reference and real nature
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of real fungus and
real mushrooms.
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And just down to the
shapes of the petals.
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Underneath, you've got all
these slits which are called "gills,"
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and we always had to
make sure that the orientation
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was as such that all the
gills were facing downwards.
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And occasionally,
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you'd have a piece which
looked really, really great,
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but the mushroom's
around the wrong way,
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so it's just like...
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Just move that
over a little bit.
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The sound of the clickers,
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we worked so hard to make sure
they sounded just like the game.
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Why don't we try some
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good, old-fashioned
clicking in the dark?
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Yeah.
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- Let me just practice a few so we can make sure...
- Yeah, sure.
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Misty was the
originator of the sound itself,
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and she did these
amazing like throat sounds,
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which were like, "That's it!"
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And they were like, "Now we gotta find
somebody who can do it too, like a guy."
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- Right.
- And then I was like, "I figured it out."
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Mr. and Mrs.
Clicker. The original.
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The Adam and Eve of clicking.
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- Yeah.
- It's also here, like...
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I think it's
that first little bit, right?
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It's just the initial...
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Which I think isn't bad
here, I just want the real thing.
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- Sure.
- Let's do some clicking.
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- That was good stuff. I like that.
- Thank you.
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I love sound, but it's like...
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I don't actually think I've
ever had anything like this
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where there was
somebody who knew
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how to do this
incredibly specific thing,
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and I have the incredibly
specific thing people
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doing the incredi...
Oh, this is so cool.
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All right, I think
it might be time
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to go to the bullpen
and bring in the ol' lefty.
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Oh, that was a good one.
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Yeah, that was a good one!
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- I was back here going, "Oh!"
- That felt juicy.
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When we made the game,
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we don't make
any physical things,
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it's all digital.
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It's all two-dimensional
on the screen.
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The first time I walked
on set, it was Joel's house.
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There's Sarah's room,
there's their living room,
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there's the sheets that
are just like the game.
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And you already got to
see the love this crew had
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for the original material.
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And I was like
emotionally moved by it.
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The sets have
just been so fucking incredible.
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I mean, you just
don't even appreciate it
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until you're in the
space that you can like,
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just fucking shoot things in 360
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because everything
is like magic.
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In the practical shooting of it,
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there was strangely
little left to the imagination
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because of the
quality of its production.
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The game is beautifully realized
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and has a beautiful
tone and story.
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The Last of Us
is about a journey,
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going across the United States.
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And so, having that
variety of landscape
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really helps make it feel
as authentic as possible.
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Fort Macleod was
a good stand-in for Austin, Texas.
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We really tried to go
to town there with neon.
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Colors you wouldn't see
once the infection starts.
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The QZ, that was a
challenge to make the wall.
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You know, built it
out of actual concrete
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and I could have
people walk on it.
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I think it really lended a
lot to the realism of things.
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Edmonton was
a key for the statehouse.
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The Fireflies' set was stunning.
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'Cause now we're outside
the QZ, it's way more run down.
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When we're
going through the tunnel,
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like the underground,
and up to the office,
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and we're standing behind,
about to get through the door,
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and I look down,
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and there's like
little sesame seeds
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to look like mouse
poo on the ground.
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The detail is, like,
from this to like...
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That you put
that there, I just...
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It's... It's... It's
just amazing!
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They created a
village! I mean...
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Bill's town, the way it
was written was very particular.
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The action involved
and the look of the town
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and the feel of the town.
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And I kind of had in
the back of my mind
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that this location existed
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after the floods in
High River in 2013.
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It's on the... kind of the
wrong side of the berm,
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and they had to tear
all the homes down.
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And what was left
was all the streets
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and the sidewalks
and the infrastructure.
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There's a town here, Canmore,
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that stood in quite nicely
for Jackson Hole, Wyoming.
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This is a town
that's self-sufficient.
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My favorite part of that
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was building the paddock
and the stables and everything
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in the parking lot right
in the middle of town.
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I was just like,
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"There's the bank!
There's a zoo! Lights!"
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I was like... I
was like... Everything was...
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I was like, "They
got everything!"
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I was really
impressed with our production design.
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Everything was just
so faithful to the game,
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and so detailed and specific.
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But the mall was, I think, one of
the most amazing sets there is.
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You know, we had
to get a carousel,
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we had to do a Halloween store,
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we had to do a
Victoria's Secret store.
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Even though this was
an abandoned mall before,
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the authenticity of
what the mall looks like,
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it's really cool.
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Plants growing
everywhere, there's algae.
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It's just a mess.
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This location has
been perfect to shoot in
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because they were gonna
tear down this mall anyway.
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So, that's given the
amazing art department
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like free reign to
completely destroy it
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and make it their own.
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So, as soon as we finish
this, like, this mall is gone.
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And let's cut.
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Okotoks, the challenge was
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that we needed a
cul-de-sac neighborhood
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to situate this
big action scene.
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And it's actually a bit freaky,
in terms of how perfect it fits
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within the visuals
within the game.
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When we scouted, it was
exactly what we wanted.
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We had extreme
winds where literally,
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you could almost...
You couldn't stand up.
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When Craig was there, I mean, it
was just like, "This is what I wrote."
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And that's the best
compliment you can get.
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We went to Waterton
because it was known to have
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a massive amount of snow.
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And what happened
was, there was no snow.
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There was drifts up
against some buildings,
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but all the roads,
all the grass,
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everywhere that you
looked, the snow was gone.
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You couldn't bring in
snow from outside the park.
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I had to use whatever
was in the town.
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So in three days, we did
350 dump trucks of snow.
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Shoveling, brooming,
raking, snow blowers
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to cover ten city blocks.
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That night, it snowed.
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There was a day of shooting,
and we were out in the elements,
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and there was snow everywhere,
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and we were on the
side of a mountain,
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and it was really cold,
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and there was a
trek through the snow.
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And there were three or four
house-sized wind machines.
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I loved it. I love it.
I wanna go back.
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How do you want it?
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- For me.
- Sí, for you.
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Gustavo Santaolalla,
our composer,
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has such a different
way of working.
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The way I worked with Gustavo,
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starting with the game
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and now continuing
with the show,
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is pitch him the story.
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I think Gustavo as well is
very much about minimalism.
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Like what's the
least we need to do
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to achieve this moment?
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Which is very much mine
and Craig's philosophy as well.
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The whole thing in the music
of The Last of Us from what I do
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is to preserve this
organic element.
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Kind of minimalism
because I have to play less.
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The pipes, the cans, all
that has a little bit to do with
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the reality of a
post-disaster world
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of found objects, broken things.
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But it's very organic.
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It's almost like in
primitive folk instrument.
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Like a modern primitive folk.
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The beginning, you
know, was trying to find
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how do we translate the language
from the game to the series,
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but I think we have found now
something that kind of flows.
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He would go off,
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and he's come back with
an hour or more of music.
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And we'd just
sit here listening.
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And he's just like, "Here's this
moment that you talked about
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that has inspired this theme.
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And that's very much what
it's like working with Gustavo.
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It's like starting with a lot
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and then continuing to
trim it down, trim it down,
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and find the right
elements and how they fit.
348
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There's
stuff that was created for the game
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that you can just
take it and put it,
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and it works fantastic.
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Which, for me, says a lot
also about what they have done
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'cause it means that
there is a connection
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between the game
and what the series is.
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Visual
effects is a big part of this show.
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Every shot that we shoot
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needs to be touched in
some way by visual effects.
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There's such an effort to
really push the boundaries
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on both what is practical
and what is a visual effect.
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Right from the get-go,
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the impetus was to try and do
as much practical as possible.
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Alex understands
that the dovetail
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between practical
and visual effects,
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when you make it
seamless, that's the magic.
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It is very interesting
working with Alex and the VFX team.
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The visual effects department
is probably the one department
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we work probably
the closest with
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on any given show or film.
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They benefit a lot more from
having something there on the day,
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which they can either
manipulate or augment in post
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or they've got something
there that needs a touch.
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There's everything on this show,
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from airplane crashes,
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to big environments,
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to war-torn
destruction in a big city,
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to smaller tendrils.
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So, there's a lot for
visual effects to work on.
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Because there's a
lot of environments,
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we've actually used a
lot of drone scanning,
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so that we're able
to recreate it digitally.
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On this show, we
used a combination of drones and LiDAR.
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LiDAR scanning is light
imaging distance ranging.
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And it basically gives you a 3D
model of what you're scanning.
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We knew that there would
be a lot of environment work,
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in line with the game.
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There's a lot of overgrowth,
and everything's deteriorated.
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And we knew that we
would have to pretty much
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help out in every
episode in that respect.
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So, there's a couple of different types
of scanning that we're doing on the show.
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One of them is cyber scanning.
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00:19:00,389 --> 00:19:02,974
It's a circle of
cameras and lights
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that flash simultaneously.
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00:19:05,144 --> 00:19:06,978
We scan every
character that's on a show,
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in case we need to build
a digital version of them.
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For all the gamers,
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I know everyone knows the
scene when they're escaping.
396
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And they're in the car,
397
00:19:19,658 --> 00:19:21,492
and you can watch everything,
398
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what's happening from
Sarah's perspective.
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The amazing
thing with that scene
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is that it's very
true to the game.
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00:19:28,876 --> 00:19:32,253
We feel like we're
with Sarah and Joel
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in Tommy's truck
the entire time.
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00:19:34,715 --> 00:19:37,800
And because of our
desire working 360,
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00:19:37,801 --> 00:19:40,137
it was a big challenge
how should we do that.
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00:19:40,387 --> 00:19:44,057
So, the car was built
with a stunt pod on top.
406
00:19:44,808 --> 00:19:48,603
So, the stunt drivers were
sitting on the rooftop driving a car
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while actors could
do their thing.
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Tilt up.
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00:19:57,988 --> 00:19:58,988
Run!
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The
cul-de-sac sequence was certainly
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the toughest sequence
that we had to do.
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The combination of
VFX, the choreography,
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and the explosions.
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Just the kind of
craziness of it all, really.
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And
this used to just be a field.
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This was nothing but grass.
417
00:20:15,422 --> 00:20:17,298
Craig wrote this
amazing sequence
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where our cast,
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they walk their way onto this
seemingly innocent cul-de-sac
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and come under attack.
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And then behind them,
a whole convoy of rebels
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come up behind them.
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So at that point, we
actually opened this up
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into the main road behind,
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and that gave us
all that extra distance
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out there in the real
world, on a real road
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for the convoy
to get up to speed
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and start chasing them.
429
00:20:42,574 --> 00:20:44,367
These trucks come
through, there's a "run" truck
430
00:20:44,368 --> 00:20:46,786
that just plows through
all these vehicles,
431
00:20:46,787 --> 00:20:48,329
knocking them
all over the place.
432
00:20:48,330 --> 00:20:49,747
Yeah, it was a big deal
433
00:20:49,748 --> 00:20:52,458
plowing through all these
cars, making it look realistic.
434
00:20:52,459 --> 00:20:54,835
We had to reinforce the plow
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because the first
night, it broke.
436
00:20:59,299 --> 00:21:01,927
And then it was the
driving into the house
437
00:21:02,844 --> 00:21:05,012
without destroying the building
438
00:21:05,013 --> 00:21:07,974
because the building
was prepped for fire.
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00:21:07,975 --> 00:21:11,018
Meaning that post-crash,
we would pull the truck out
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00:21:11,019 --> 00:21:14,856
and put another truck in
there that would then explode.
441
00:21:15,482 --> 00:21:17,483
Special effects
did an amazing job
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00:21:17,484 --> 00:21:20,486
piping those houses
and vehicles with propane,
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00:21:20,487 --> 00:21:23,782
but we'll go in there and
just add the finishing touches.
444
00:21:26,827 --> 00:21:28,452
In the big,
climactic battle scene,
445
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most of that was
done practically
446
00:21:30,998 --> 00:21:32,332
with real performers.
447
00:21:33,083 --> 00:21:36,335
However, we felt like we
needed to triple that amount.
448
00:21:36,336 --> 00:21:40,173
So, everything in
addition was visual effects.
449
00:21:40,507 --> 00:21:42,717
When we need to make
these creatures in CG,
450
00:21:42,718 --> 00:21:44,635
it's always good
to have a reference
451
00:21:44,636 --> 00:21:47,054
from the actual
performers themselves,
452
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so an animator doesn't
have to do it frame-by-frame.
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Mocap is a methodology of
capturing movement of characters.
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We did a mocap session,
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tried to record as many
different movements
456
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from the stuntmen
as we possibly could.
457
00:22:01,445 --> 00:22:03,947
We had multiple cameras set up.
458
00:22:04,281 --> 00:22:07,575
So much of what
we do in post with animation
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00:22:07,576 --> 00:22:09,201
depends on the performances.
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00:22:09,202 --> 00:22:11,579
We shot a library
of their movements,
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00:22:11,580 --> 00:22:14,082
and we selected the best
ones that we could have.
462
00:22:21,256 --> 00:22:24,550
Of course, we try to
do as much practically as possible.
463
00:22:24,551 --> 00:22:27,220
The makeup people were awesome.
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00:22:29,306 --> 00:22:32,559
The design work from Barrie
Gower's team was complete.
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We took these designs
and we scanned them,
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and this helped create
visual assets for us in post.
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00:22:41,151 --> 00:22:42,485
With the infected,
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we started exploring all
these other paint schemes.
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00:22:45,530 --> 00:22:47,239
Once we
knew what the colors were,
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then we would
paint a suit to match.
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We would glue all the mushrooms
and everything onto the suits,
472
00:22:52,037 --> 00:22:54,830
and then the suits would go
over to Sage and her team,
473
00:22:54,831 --> 00:22:56,290
and they would cut the costumes
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for the mushrooms
to be growing through
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and sort of dripping stains
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00:23:01,004 --> 00:23:02,755
as they kind of
came through the skin
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and the flesh broke down.
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00:23:04,132 --> 00:23:07,593
Each clicker is
designed individually.
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And the costume had
to be durable enough
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00:23:08,970 --> 00:23:14,016
to go through all of the crazy
contortionist sort of moves
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that the clickers have
in the fight scenes.
482
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Then they run
through the breakdown department,
483
00:23:18,980 --> 00:23:21,107
so it looks like they've
been rotting and molding
484
00:23:21,108 --> 00:23:22,274
for months or years.
485
00:23:22,275 --> 00:23:24,110
And so, when you see
the whole thing together,
486
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with the prosthetics
487
00:23:25,529 --> 00:23:28,405
and the sort of muddy, drippy
costume that's coming off them,
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00:23:28,406 --> 00:23:30,158
it just looks so amazing.
489
00:23:30,408 --> 00:23:32,451
You never
go into battle with one costume,
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00:23:32,452 --> 00:23:33,536
but these guys did.
491
00:23:33,537 --> 00:23:35,496
So, you know, makeup,
effects, and costumes
492
00:23:35,497 --> 00:23:37,706
would be sitting on
set, biting their nails,
493
00:23:37,707 --> 00:23:39,542
just hoping that
everything stays together.
494
00:23:39,543 --> 00:23:41,585
So, one thing
we did for a lot of our shots
495
00:23:41,586 --> 00:23:43,629
was we actually
had a little area
496
00:23:43,630 --> 00:23:45,756
that we could
remove from the crown
497
00:23:45,757 --> 00:23:47,258
of the clicker's appliance.
498
00:23:47,259 --> 00:23:49,718
We would either have
complete vision for the actors
499
00:23:49,719 --> 00:23:51,554
and you'd see their
eyes looking through,
500
00:23:51,555 --> 00:23:53,389
which would then
be replaced in post,
501
00:23:53,390 --> 00:23:55,724
or we'd be able to do
some more close up stuff
502
00:23:55,725 --> 00:23:56,976
and put that plug back in.
503
00:23:56,977 --> 00:23:58,602
The amount
of work they had to do
504
00:23:58,603 --> 00:24:00,980
just to get the 200
we had in there,
505
00:24:00,981 --> 00:24:02,357
it was amazing.
506
00:24:10,031 --> 00:24:11,657
There are several creatures
507
00:24:11,658 --> 00:24:13,701
that we had to make
the decision fairly early on
508
00:24:13,702 --> 00:24:16,745
whether they'd be done
practically with prosthetics,
509
00:24:16,746 --> 00:24:18,123
in visual effects entirely,
510
00:24:18,540 --> 00:24:20,584
or if it might be a hybrid
approach of the both.
511
00:24:20,876 --> 00:24:23,043
In the case of
the bloater itself,
512
00:24:23,044 --> 00:24:25,546
because it's an
enormous creature,
513
00:24:25,547 --> 00:24:27,673
it's meant to stand
about seven feet tall,
514
00:24:27,674 --> 00:24:30,050
you can get a man and
put him in a prosthetic suit,
515
00:24:30,051 --> 00:24:31,051
which they did.
516
00:24:31,052 --> 00:24:32,178
At the end of the day,
517
00:24:32,179 --> 00:24:33,596
there's only a certain
amount of mobility
518
00:24:33,597 --> 00:24:34,930
in this prosthetic suit.
519
00:24:34,931 --> 00:24:37,474
As good as it looked, he
just couldn't do the things
520
00:24:37,475 --> 00:24:39,895
that he needed to
do as the bloater.
521
00:24:40,353 --> 00:24:43,189
Very early on, we kind
of planned for doing it
522
00:24:43,190 --> 00:24:44,231
practically on set,
523
00:24:44,232 --> 00:24:46,692
in a prosthetic suit
that Barrie Gower made.
524
00:24:46,693 --> 00:24:49,653
But we reserved the option
and shot a lot of clean plates,
525
00:24:49,654 --> 00:24:52,489
which means we took the
bloater, the physical bloater,
526
00:24:52,490 --> 00:24:55,910
out of the shot so that we
had a clean background to use
527
00:24:55,911 --> 00:24:58,329
in case we wanted
to go the CG route
528
00:24:58,330 --> 00:25:00,289
in some or in all cases.
529
00:25:00,290 --> 00:25:02,708
Barrie Gower and
his team did a fantastic job
530
00:25:02,709 --> 00:25:05,337
creating the bloater
suit with so much detail.
531
00:25:05,670 --> 00:25:08,005
However, we found
that what we needed
532
00:25:08,006 --> 00:25:10,090
was the bloater to
be a little bit bigger.
533
00:25:10,091 --> 00:25:12,468
And it needed to move
a little faster, as well.
534
00:25:12,469 --> 00:25:15,763
This CG creature is
doing some very fantastical things.
535
00:25:15,764 --> 00:25:18,098
Things that a normal
human couldn't do.
536
00:25:18,099 --> 00:25:21,769
We ended up just feeling
like it was necessary to create
537
00:25:21,770 --> 00:25:23,270
a full digital version
of the bloater.
538
00:25:31,404 --> 00:25:33,030
In the
case of the child clicker,
539
00:25:33,031 --> 00:25:34,698
very much like the
bloater early on,
540
00:25:34,699 --> 00:25:37,743
what we did was we sussed out
541
00:25:37,744 --> 00:25:38,994
a person that
could play the role.
542
00:25:38,995 --> 00:25:40,355
And in this case,
it happened to be
543
00:25:40,580 --> 00:25:44,208
a girl from Toronto called Skye,
who was also a contortionist.
544
00:25:44,209 --> 00:25:47,920
So she could move her
body very, very effectively
545
00:25:47,921 --> 00:25:51,675
and do all sorts of clicker-y,
kind of stutter-y motions.
546
00:25:52,926 --> 00:25:55,970
What we did was we shot
Skye on set, like the bloater.
547
00:25:55,971 --> 00:25:59,598
And then we also decided
to sort of change the design
548
00:25:59,599 --> 00:26:03,352
just ever so slightly, in terms
of the prosthetic makeup.
549
00:26:03,353 --> 00:26:06,230
We wanted to feel
frightened by her character,
550
00:26:06,231 --> 00:26:08,900
but also have a sense
of sympathy for her.
551
00:26:09,484 --> 00:26:12,112
We had more of her face exposed,
552
00:26:12,362 --> 00:26:15,447
we could see her
long hair, her pigtails.
553
00:26:15,448 --> 00:26:18,451
These were all the aspects that
were important to Craig and Neil.
554
00:26:19,744 --> 00:26:24,290
What started out as just
replacing Skye's head as a CG element,
555
00:26:24,291 --> 00:26:27,710
we realized we might as
well go a full CG body on it.
556
00:26:27,711 --> 00:26:29,920
And then we can get
this child clicker to do
557
00:26:29,921 --> 00:26:31,839
exactly what we want it to do.
558
00:26:31,840 --> 00:26:35,509
So, now she's able to do that
in a much more fantastical way
559
00:26:35,510 --> 00:26:37,345
because we went CG with it.
560
00:26:39,973 --> 00:26:43,183
The fight at
the Silver Lake Steakhouse,
561
00:26:43,184 --> 00:26:45,185
special effects
did an excellent job
562
00:26:45,186 --> 00:26:48,397
of essentially
piping the entire set.
563
00:26:48,398 --> 00:26:50,357
Of course, we can
see some of this piping,
564
00:26:50,358 --> 00:26:52,651
which, this is where
visual effects will come in
565
00:26:52,652 --> 00:26:57,574
and remove the piping and
also blend in more flames.
566
00:26:58,074 --> 00:27:01,243
At one point, we were
not going to do any practical fire
567
00:27:01,244 --> 00:27:04,205
because the discussion was
that it was too much money,
568
00:27:04,581 --> 00:27:06,290
and we couldn't do
it in the time we had.
569
00:27:06,291 --> 00:27:08,917
That's where I come in
to say, "No, we can do it."
570
00:27:08,918 --> 00:27:10,544
Basically, I said,
"You can have...
571
00:27:10,545 --> 00:27:14,174
Of this size set, you can
have a quarter of it on fire."
572
00:27:14,924 --> 00:27:17,635
Joel Whist, our
special effects supervisor,
573
00:27:18,053 --> 00:27:19,303
is amazing,
574
00:27:19,304 --> 00:27:21,638
and he designed that entire set
575
00:27:21,639 --> 00:27:25,059
to be fireproof in the areas
that we needed it to be.
576
00:27:25,060 --> 00:27:27,645
And that helped
immeasurably for us.
577
00:27:35,111 --> 00:27:37,237
Shooting with Nabo the giraffe
578
00:27:37,238 --> 00:27:40,450
will certainly be one of
my favorite experiences.
579
00:27:40,825 --> 00:27:44,495
What I quickly learned after
doing the research on the game
580
00:27:44,496 --> 00:27:47,247
was just how
critically important
581
00:27:47,248 --> 00:27:50,960
this one moment is to the
whole story of the game.
582
00:27:51,669 --> 00:27:53,463
Giraffes are pretty massive.
583
00:27:54,756 --> 00:27:58,051
It's like a spiritual
experience almost,
584
00:27:58,301 --> 00:28:02,013
being so close to such
a magnificent animal.
585
00:28:02,514 --> 00:28:04,973
Yes, you can create a
giraffe in visual effects,
586
00:28:04,974 --> 00:28:06,434
but it's just not the same.
587
00:28:07,769 --> 00:28:11,397
Fortunately, the one thing Alberta
does have is a zoo with giraffes.
588
00:28:11,398 --> 00:28:15,943
And we spent quite a while
putting things in the enclosure,
589
00:28:15,944 --> 00:28:19,071
so that we could shoot it and
getting the giraffes acclimated.
590
00:28:19,072 --> 00:28:21,574
Like panels with blue screen,
591
00:28:21,825 --> 00:28:25,077
so that we could go in there
and just shoot the giraffe
592
00:28:25,078 --> 00:28:26,830
and have Ellie feed the giraffe.
593
00:28:27,205 --> 00:28:30,959
And then, visual effects
in all the other pieces around it.
594
00:28:32,877 --> 00:28:33,877
Something that
was so fascinating
595
00:28:33,878 --> 00:28:35,379
about this experience was that
596
00:28:35,380 --> 00:28:37,631
the visual effects
and the special effects
597
00:28:37,632 --> 00:28:39,299
and all of the departments
working together,
598
00:28:39,300 --> 00:28:41,301
building all of these
practical elements.
599
00:28:41,302 --> 00:28:45,723
To be able to actually see it
in front of you was everything
600
00:28:46,015 --> 00:28:48,142
in terms of the playing
of these characters
601
00:28:48,143 --> 00:28:51,229
and the being in this
fungus apocalypse
602
00:28:51,646 --> 00:28:52,772
20 years in.
603
00:29:01,948 --> 00:29:04,533
I don't know how
to describe this feeling of pride.
604
00:29:04,534 --> 00:29:06,618
And I can't wait for
everybody at Naughty Dog
605
00:29:06,619 --> 00:29:08,162
that worked so hard on the game
606
00:29:08,163 --> 00:29:11,290
and realize that the first
time to see this version
607
00:29:11,291 --> 00:29:12,792
does all their work justice.
608
00:29:13,084 --> 00:29:15,670
There's something really
beautiful and moving about that.
609
00:29:16,838 --> 00:29:18,922
When people talk to
me about the game,
610
00:29:18,923 --> 00:29:20,007
we are the same.
611
00:29:20,008 --> 00:29:21,925
We understand each other.
612
00:29:21,926 --> 00:29:23,845
We have a shared language.
613
00:29:24,554 --> 00:29:25,554
Arts are so important
614
00:29:25,805 --> 00:29:27,765
because it holds a mirror
to our social condition,
615
00:29:28,016 --> 00:29:30,642
and it helps us have
better understanding
616
00:29:30,643 --> 00:29:33,687
for someone who
doesn't look or act like us,
617
00:29:33,688 --> 00:29:35,439
who might come
from a different culture,
618
00:29:35,440 --> 00:29:38,942
and I think that we'll be able
to jump over some of these
619
00:29:38,943 --> 00:29:40,903
skyscraper-high hurdles
620
00:29:40,904 --> 00:29:43,573
that we have in the
things that divide us.
621
00:29:43,990 --> 00:29:46,825
And that will never end.
622
00:29:46,826 --> 00:29:50,872
That right there is the
crux of The Last of Us.
623
00:29:51,998 --> 00:29:54,917
One of the most
exciting experiences of my life
624
00:29:54,918 --> 00:29:57,127
was getting this job.
625
00:29:57,128 --> 00:30:01,548
To come back to HBO,
which basically raised me,
626
00:30:01,549 --> 00:30:06,220
to meet Craig, to meet
Bella, all of our different actors,
627
00:30:06,221 --> 00:30:09,473
there was something of where
I knew this was going to be
628
00:30:09,474 --> 00:30:14,561
the hardest and the
best experience of my life.
629
00:30:14,562 --> 00:30:16,146
And weirdly, there was something
630
00:30:16,147 --> 00:30:19,816
that I knew was
special and terrifying.
631
00:30:19,817 --> 00:30:22,111
And it all came true.
632
00:30:23,905 --> 00:30:28,367
On the first day, I set
a fairly reasonable goal
633
00:30:28,368 --> 00:30:30,827
to make the best
television show ever.
634
00:30:30,828 --> 00:30:32,413
That was our reasonable goal.
635
00:30:33,164 --> 00:30:37,502
I just want to say thank you.
I love you guys. Thank you.
636
00:31:05,572 --> 00:31:07,490
And that's the end
of this story.
50956
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