The Last of Pods: Troy Baker Discusses The Last of Us Episode 4, Casting, Games, and More
02/05/2023 09:49 pm EST
Following Episode 4 of The Last of Us, The Last of Pods released its fourth episode discussing the HBO series. ET and ComicBook's recap show offers a special guest interview with week, as Troy Baker sat down with Ash Crossan and Brandon Davis to talk about the TV series, the games, and more. Baker was the original actor who played Joel in The Last of Us Part I and The Last of Us Part II before the popular video game franchise became a hit series on HBO with Pedro Pascal in the live-action version of the role. Baker's resumé as a voice actor runs deep but he'll be adding another credit to his acting work as he is due for an appearance in an upcoming episode of the TV series.
"It's surreal," Baker said of the experience revisiting The Last of Us as it rolls as a TV series. "I had this one moment when we were shooting my episode, and I'm on set in this beautiful, very cold location...I'm by this beautiful river, and it's cold, and I just chuckled, and the person I'm next to goes, "What are you laughing about?" It's a very serious scene we're about to do. I was like, 'If you could go back 12 years to the version of me that walked into that audition on that sound stage, and go, 'Just to let you know, this is going to be the biggest thing you've ever done in your life, and you're going to be standing here on a set of what will be, I think, one of the greatest television shows ever,' I never would've believed it.'"
The fourth episode of The Last of Pods was broadcast on the ComicBook.com YouTube channel and is available on all major podcast platforms. Links to subscribe to and watch The Last of Pods can be found below!
The Last of Pods is your QZ for all things The Last of Us. The series is hosted and produced by Crossan (Entertainment Tonight) and Davis (ComicBook.com). The Last of Pods joins ComicBook.com's growing portfolio of engaging and highly focused podcast content, following the cover-all series ComicBook Nation hosted by Kofi Outlaw, Janell Wheeler, and Matt Aguilar, the Marvel-centric Phase Zero series hosted by Davis, Jenna Anderson, Aaron Perine, and Jamie Jirak, and the Pokemon-centric show A Wild Podcast Has Appeared hosted by Megan Peters, Jim Viscardi, and Christian Hoffer.
The Last of Pods aims to cultivate an enthusiastic audience of The Last of Us fans, both those who have played the popular video game and those going into the new TV series with no knowledge of the source material. Episodes will regularly compare events of the series to how they happened in the games, discuss the making of new episodes with cast, writers, and directors, and save spoilers for what happens next (according to the games) for the end of each episode! Clear warnings will be given as a means to keep those ears immune to any spoiler-y bites! The first two-thirds of each episode is a safe zone for those unfamiliar with Ellie and Joel's video game journeys!
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