Anne-Marie Baldonado

I want to play a quick scene from The Last of Us.

It's near the beginning of the episode.

It's kind of the meet cute.

As you were saying, your character Bill was a survivalist before the pandemic and the aftermath.

So he's actually done quite well for himself.

And one day another survivor wanders onto your land into one of your traps.

And of course, you're skeptical.

The other character, Frank, is played by Murray Bartlett.

That's a short scene from The Last of Us.

What was it like filming this episode, which was really like a film?

You know, it traces a whole love story with your character Bill and Frank, who finds you by chance and, you know, you fall in love and have this life together, the two of you, essentially.

I was wondering what it was like filming this whole arc of a story.

Well, it's this wonderful story.

You know, it's this post-apocalyptic landscape.

And there are these two people who find connection, purpose, meaning, and then, you know, loss, too.

And your character, Bill, starts as someone completely closed off from others and from himself.

And he opens up.

And I wonder what you drew on to play Bill, someone who is so alone but is finally seen by someone else.

There's something, too, about these characters, like Bill and Ron, that they're so capable.

And we're drawn to kind of the crack in it sometimes, like the crack in being so capable.