Laura Bailey says that the leaks before launch did not help to improve the rarefied climate that was breathed then.
The Last of Us Part 2 is one of those games that has raised blisters. Naughty Dog’s decisions have divided part of the community, although that has not prevented the game from winning the highest award in awards such as The Game Awards 2020 or the Titanium of the Fun & Serious Festival. It is one thing to disagree with or not enjoy a cultural product, but it is quite another to attack the people who have participated in the project. Laura Bailey, the actress who has voiced Abby in the video game has been sincere about it. Although he acknowledges that he was prepared to receive hate, pointed out that he underestimated the scale of those comments.
“I knew there would be reactions for sure; I knew I would get some hate, but I did not anticipate the scale, ”he is honest. The interpreter thinks that the leaks before launch did not help at all. “It was the perfect storm. I think the leaks had a lot to do with it. If your first experience with it had been in the game, “he continues, the player would have had” the maturity “and sufficient understanding. “But the details were leaked a couple of months in advance. For months, people built barriers and walls before they could understand Abby’s point of view. “
Bailey maintains that Abby is one of the most challenging characters of her career, a character with which she has managed to win the award for best performance at The Game Awards 2020. Playing this protagonist of The Last of Us Part 2 has been “gratifying” , much in spite of the bad memories produced by the anger of some players. “Has been [un papel] complicated, but I think his story has been incredible “, one of the” most incredible “characters he has been able to handle in a video game.
Neil Druckmann (director) and Laura Bailey.
She was unhappy with her job
He admits, though, that at first he didn’t like controlling Abby; He didn’t like her performance then either. She says she told her husband Travis that she wasn’t happy with how he did it. “I’m not good, it’s terrible, I don’t know how they hired me for the cast. All these years of work for nothing ”. Her husband then told her to continue playing, until in the end she changed her mind. Bailey also shares the painful process that it was to accompany the protagonists on such a sad adventure. He says that it is difficult to record these types of sequences loaded with so much feeling, because the emotional weight drags him down at the end of the day. “Those emotions stay with you.”
The intensity is amplified in the final part. If you have not played the title or have not finished it, we recommend that you not continue reading, as there are spoils of the main story. The actress reveals that in that sequence the complicity between her and Ashely Johnson (Ellie) was total. “As painful as it was, it was also very rewarding.” He compares it to a Fight Club, in which “crazy moments of violence” occur. According to the interpreter, “one of the best things about being an actor is experiencing emotions that you would normally keep under control.”
Not everything in The Last of Us Part 2 is darkness and pain, you can also experience moments of tranquility and happiness. Some of Bailey’s favorite moments are from flashbacks with Owen and Ferris at the aquarium. “I felt like I was in a different project because it was joyous. The game needs those moments of joy ”.
