Gabriel Luna

Once the show's brain trust of Neil Druckmann and Craig Mazin officially cast him as Joel's (Pedro Pascal) younger brother and Sarah's (Nico Parker) uncle, Luna ...

It’s truly impossible because of the nature of who he is, the energy he has and the awareness he has of what he means to people. So there was a lot of space in there, and there was a lot of time that was unaccounted for in terms of Terminator’s presence in the minds of the audience and the folks who love the franchise. So it was disappointing in that we knew what we had in the can. I saw the severity of her wound, and based on my experience in the military, I knew that it was fatal. So, the blocking and the framing, we drew a lot of it from the game, and I certainly drew on some of Jeffrey’s physical geometry. I tried to absorb what I believed to be important and what the gamers are going to hope for in a true translation of the game. There are moments that are all the more genuine and authentic because I got to put so much of my life into it, and so I definitely drew on my relationship with Timothy. Was that a difficult sequence to take part in and also watch unfold? So I knew a lot about him, but I was excited to realize that there was this whole other layer to Pedro as an artist, as a person and as a spirit. So we truly utilized that time to the best of our ability in getting to know each other. Shortly after they mentioned they were interested, I started playing the first game just to have a sense of the story and to get a handle on the character. “This was a moment that Craig [Mazin] felt very strongly about and how it needed to truly take the gamers back into the game.