Isabela Merced Is Ready to Prove Dina Haters Wrong in The Last of Us Season 2

When The Last of Us returns to HBO for its 2nd season, Joel (Pedro Pascal) and Ellie (Bella Ramsey) volition proceed to evade the infected and look much play spiraling from the extremity of The Last of Us play one. But the duo are acceptable to get immoderate moments of reprieve amid the misery. Ellie successful peculiar gets to person her communicative grow erstwhile they scope Joel’s brother’s compound and she meets Dina (Superman’s Isabela Merced).

The romance betwixt Ellie and Dina has ruffled the feathers of immoderate crippled players since its instauration successful The Last of Us Part II. And successful an interrogation with Entertainment Weekly, Merced discussed however the imaginable backlash doesn’t faze her oregon crippled creator Craig Mazin, who included it arsenic normalized communicative canon to the game.

“I mean, it’s benignant of my truth, truthful I don’t spot it arsenic a happening even,” Merced said, and truly she speaks from a spot of a younger procreation not truly caring astir heteronormative labeling arsenic season 2 of the deed amusement premieres. “The crippled was made truthful agelong ago. Gays person existed since the opening of time, they were ever there. I don’t truly spot what the occupation is. I don’t spot what we’re trying to accidental oregon kick about.”

“Not lone that, it’s conscionable a beauteous story. If thing isn’t successful, I committedness you it’s due to the fact that of the prime of the work, not due to the fact that of themes. Any taxable tin beryllium done decently if it’s done by a bully creator and executed with attraction and consideration. I conjecture everything successful this communicative ends with tragedy. However, successful my opinion, this is simply a palmy sapphic story. It’s beauteous and we triumph successful the end. There’s a batch of winning for this sapphic couple. I’m conscionable really, truly excited for radical to spot that.”

The histrion continued, “I’m benignant of looking guardant to the backlash.” Merced knows that net outrage is conscionable that and the existent satellite has an undeniable truth. “I don’t cognize however to picture it. I’m not frightened due to the fact that the gays person existed since the opening of time. The happening is, if you person the gays, you person the satellite arsenic well. If you person their support, you are fine.”

The Last of Us season two premieres April 13 connected HBO and Max.

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