Melanie Lynskey is opening up about her “The Last of Us” character Kathleen and clapping again at those that’ve critiqued the character’s place within the present. On Feb. 8, Lynskey shared a screenshot of a tweet from mannequin Adrianne Curry, who was replying to an editorial picture of Lynskey. Curry wrote in response to the picture, “her body says life of luxury . . . not post apocolyptic [sic] warlord. where is linda hamilton when you need her?”
Lynskey wrote alongside the screenshot, “Firstly — this can be a picture from my cowl shoot for InStyle journal, not a nonetheless from HBO’s ‘The Final Of Us.’ And I am taking part in an individual who meticulously deliberate & executed an overthrow of FEDRA. I’m alleged to be SMART, ma’am. I do not should be muscly. That is what henchmen are for.”
A couple of half hour after her first tweet, Lynskey wrote a longer Twitter thread about her position within the sequence and why she cherishes the prospect to play Kathleen and subvert stereotypes. “Other than getting to work with creative geniuses who I respect and admire ([showrunners] Neil [Druckmann] & Craig [Mazin]) the thing that excited me most about doing #TheLastOfUs is that my casting suggested the possibility of a future in which people start listening to the person with the best ideas,” she wrote partially.
She continued, “Not the coolest or the toughest person. The [organizer]. The person who knows where everything is. The person who is doing the planning. The person who can multitask. The one who’s decisive.” Lynskey wrote, “Women, and especially women in leadership positions, are scrutinized incessantly,” naming widespread criticisms about ladies’s tone of voice, appears to be like, and anger.
“I was excited at the idea of playing a woman who had, in a desperate and tragic time, jumped into a role she had never planned on having and nobody else had planned on her having, and then she actually got shit done,” she mentioned. As for Kathleen’s wardrobe, the star wrote that she needed her to seem like she has “a notepad on her at all times.” She needed the character to be “feminine, and soft-voiced, and all the things that we’ve been told are ‘weak.’ Because honestly, f*ck that.”
“I understand that some people are mad that I’m not the typical casting for this role. That’s thrilling to me,” she wrote mentioned, including that as an actor, some of the thrilling elements is having the ability to subvert folks’s expectations. She thanked Druckmann and Mazin for “creating a truly new character” and letting her be part of the sequence, and she or he thanked her followers for supporting her.
As Lynskey famous, Kathleen is a brand new character that doesn’t seem in the video game “The Last of Us.” Within the recreation, Joel (Pedro Pascal) and Ellie (Bella Ramsey) head to Pittsburgh after leaving Boston, the place they meet Henry (Lamar Johnson) and his little brother Sam (Keivonn Montreal Woodard). They’re chased by hunters (and, later, zombies).
The TV sequence strikes that motion to Kansas Metropolis, the place a bunch of rebels, led by Kathleen, have taken over town. As seen within the fourth episode, which aired Feb. 5, they’re intent on discovering everybody who collaborated with FEDRA, and particularly Henry. Kathleen kills a physician who labored with FEDRA after she interrogates him for information. On the finish of the episode, Henry and Sam discover Ellie and Joel the place they’re hiding within the metropolis.
Lynskey’s activate “The Last of Us” comes throughout a busy time for the actor. She additionally stars because the grownup model of Shauna on Showtime’s “Yellowjackets,” which returns for its second season this March. In 2022 she additionally appeared in Hulu’s “Candy” with Jessica Biel.
“The Last of Us” airs Sundays on HBO. The fifth episode, which airs Feb. 12, will stream early, on Friday, Feb. 10, on HBO Max.
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