After we spoke with The Last of Us stars Pedro Pascal and Bella Ramsey, they’d nothing however pretty issues to say about Alberta as an entire.
However of all of the locations they visited throughout their year-long shoot within the province, there was one place, specifically, that stood out: Canmore.
“My favorite place that we went to was Canmore, for positive,” Ramsey famous, to which Pascal excitedly agreed. “Each inch of Canmore was simply this magical little city… with actually nice fudge,” he added. (Sadly, we weren’t capable of ask the place he obtained mentioned fudge.)
Now, we’re lastly attending to see the small Alberta city within the hit HBO drama sequence. Within the sixth episode, premiering February nineteenth, Joel (Pascal) and Ellie (Ramsey) head to Jackson, Wyoming to seek out Joel’s brother, Tommy (Gabriel Luna). As co-creator/co-showrunner Craig Mazin instructed us, Canmore was a “lifeless ringer” for Jackson due to its lovely, snowy vistas.
It’s value noting that The Last of Us has been renewed for a second season, which can adapt The Last of Us Part II. The sport’s opening hours are additionally set in Jackson, so it stays to be seen if HBO will deliver the manufacturing again to Canmore for these scenes. For now, although, we now have Episode 6 (titled “Kin”) to get pleasure from, in addition to the remaining three episodes.
A part of the enchantment of The Final of Us has been to see all of Alberta’s gorgeous geography, and it’s one thing that the forged and crew have continued to reward. In a current interview, Jeffrey Pierce, who performs Perry within the sequence and Tommy within the video games, instructed us that his time capturing in Calgary was doubtless his “favourite” filming experience to date. John Paino, the sequence’ manufacturing designer, has additionally mentioned that he was “shocked” at how “clean” Alberta ended up being.
If you wish to comply with together with the huge Canadian manufacturing, Travel Alberta has a tool that breaks down where each episode was filmed in the province.
The Final of Us is streaming solely on Crave in Canada.
Picture credit score: HBO
