Jeffrey Pierce Thinks “The Last Of Us” Could Get A Third Season! 

The Last Of Us Star Jeffrey Pierce Discusses The Possibility Of A Third Season In An Interview. Here Is Everything We Know.

By Aryan Pandey
February 24,2023
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A record number of HBO viewers have watched the critically acclaimed The Last of Us television series, which is based on the popular 2013 video game of the same name.

With the success of the first season of HBO’s “The Last of Us” and the approval of a Season 2, actor Jeffrey Pierce talked about the possibility of a Season 3. Jeffrey Pierce first appeared in Episodes 4 and 5. Jeffrey Pierce, one of the game actors that joined the live-action series, had an exciting guest appearance in the fourth and fifth episodes. Perry is a fictional character that Pierce, who provided the voice of Tommy in The Last of Us and The Last of Us 2, plays.

Given how well-received the PlayStation series is, HBO’s adaptation has been a huge triumph for the network. Season 2 of the show has even been confirmed, with hints of the next plot being dropped throughout Season 1 as the show continues to set records for viewers.

According to Neil Druckmann, showrunner of the HBO Max series and co-creator/game director of The Last of Us games, there are “no intentions to tell any tales beyond adapting the game,” and The Last of Us Part Two will most likely be a straightforward adaptation for Season 2..

Yet, because the sequel has such a huge plot, it feels more ideal for division than the original game did.

Jeffrey Pierce Teases Season 3

"The Last Of Us" Star Jeffrey Pierce
“The Last Of Us” Star Jeffrey Pierce

Jeffrey Pierce, the star of both The Last of Us video games and HBO’s The Last of Us television series, expressed his opinion that HBO will want to create a Season 3 in order to appropriately adapt The Last of Us Part II in an exclusive interview with The Direct’s Klein Felt.

Pierce, who portrayed Tommy in the games and Perry in the HBO series, said when questioned about the recently announced Season 2 and ideas for an adaptation of Part II that he believes they’ll need to “extend [the HBO series] beyond a second season” merely because “there’s just so much material to convey in the second game:”

“Yeah, I can’t wait to see what they do with it. I think they’ll stretch it beyond a second season, because there’s just so much story to tell in the second game.”

With reference to “Tommy coming over to visit Ellie after Joel’s death,” which he recalled the “wonderful” experience of executing during the creation of The Last of Us Part II: The Fall, he said that he cannot wait to witness certain specific moments from the second game.

“I mean, I love the opening. The whole sort of, ‘Jesus Christ, Joel. What did you do?’ I’m sure that will be in the show. Looking forward to seeing that. I’m looking forward to Tommy coming over to see Ellie after Joel’s death. That scene… playing that with Ashley was magical. Yeah, and then the scene at the farm, all that I love– I love so much of what I got to do as Tommy. And… these are like meaty moments when it comes to the farmhouse at the end with Dina, and Ashley, and talks about chasing Abby down.”

Also, the actor for The Last of Us discussed the HBO adaptation of the popular video game series and the unsuccessful attempts to get the series to the big screen.

For the movie adaptation of The Last of Us, he recalled “doing the table read,” noting that the film “didn’t have the opportunity to breathe the way that the show [is doing]”:

“Yeah, I’ve mentioned before that I got to go and do the table read. And so that was a great experience. I happened to be in L.A. at the time. And it was a really good read. I mean, like it’s difficult. Table reads are notoriously difficult, but it did not have the same energy that we achieved in the motion capture stage. So, I don’t know if that was… is a good barometer on whether it would have been a successful film or not. But they had to shoehorn a lot of stuff into a two-hour script. And it just didn’t have the opportunity to breathe the way that the show was breathing now.”

Season 3 of HBO’s “The Last of Us” seems unavoidable, and it’s nearly shocking that it wasn’t greenlit with Season 2. Like Pierce said, “there’s just so much narrative to convey in the second game,” and if HBO Max wishes to allow everything in Part II “the time to breathe,” then a Season 2 is practically mandatory.

The Last of Us airs on HBO Max every Sunday at 9pm EST.

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