Those unfamiliar with the video games were likely shocked by The Last of Us Season 2, which gave a strong indication that the alread confirmed third season will follow Kaitlyn Dever‘s Abby, whose actions appeared to set her up as the biggest antagonist on TV. While it’s surely great to be a TV hero, Dever recently explained in an interview why she doesn’t mind playing a character that viewers and gamers are narratively geared to hate at first.
As The Last of Us Seasons 1 and 2 are currently available to stream with a Max subscription, the actress linked up with Walton Goggins for a Vanity Fair interview. The duo, who first worked together on Justified, discussed playing characters and the feeling of embodying well-crafted characters that audience may not feel so kindly about. Dever talked about how that relates to Abby, whose most significant moment in Season 2 was the brutal murder of Pedro Pascal’s Joel, saying:
When you first see and meet Abby, people will think that she’s a villain. That was very apparent when I walked onto set and even took this job. My introduction to this story is not great. People might not like me, and I have to put that in a box somewhere else and do my job, and really live in the character’s bones.
