Lux Pascal’s reaction to her brother Pedro Pascal’s death on The Last of Us is so relatable.
“I knew how that episode would end. I knew what was going to happen,” Lux, 32, told Remezcla at the 2025 Platino Awards late last month. “But even so, I saw it and I wanted to throw the iPad.”
Lux admitted that she “burst into tears” upon seeing the show’s gruesome murder.
“It’s not the first time he’s done it to me. It’s not the second time he’s done it to me. I think it’s the third or fourth time he’s done it to me,” Lux added of her brother’s previous performances. “How many deaths has he had? Game of Thrones, Equalizer 2, The Last of Us — each is more violent than the other.”
She concluded, “Seeing my brother die that way, I didn’t like it at all.”
The Last of Us viewers received a rude awakening when the second episode of season 2 premiered on April 20 and Pedro’s beloved character, Joel Miller, was murdered by Kaitlyn Dever’s Abby.
“I’m in active denial,” Pedro told Entertainment Weekly after the episode aired. “I realize this more and more as I get older, I find myself slipping into denial that anything is over.”
The actor added, “I know that I’m forever bonded to so many members of the experience and just have to see them under different circumstances but never will under the circumstances of playing Joel on The Last of Us.”
Despite his death scene, Pedro appeared in one final The Last of Us episode during season 2 — a flashback which showed the years leading up to his violent death.
Pedro also told Entertainment Weekly that he doesn’t “spend a lot of time thinking about” the show because his departure was so emotionally charged.
“I was always sidestepping how I really felt, that in a big way my experience was coming to an end on the show,” he explained. “I guess that was the strangest thing to step through because I felt so bonded to everyone in the show after going through the gauntlet of season 1 together, not just with Bella [Ramsey], but with the entire cast and crew.”
He explained that it was a “very sad” goodbye on set.
“I had such a physical manifestation, a violent mirror of how sad it was for Joel to die,” Pedro added. “To be honest, it was quite dreamlike.”
All episodes of The Last of Us are now streaming via HBO Max.
