In a brand new interview with EW, Druckmann and Mazin addressed the selection to not embody a extra muscular Abby on the present. Briefly, they solid Dever within the function as a result of she’s an awesome actor.
“We worth efficiency over the rest,” Druckmann defined. “We’d like somebody to essentially seize the essence of these characters…. We don’t worth as a lot, ‘Do they give the impression of being precisely just like the character with their eyebrows or their nostril or their physique?’ No matter it’s. It’s not nowhere on the precedence record, but it surely’s under a bunch of different issues that we think about.”
Druckmann additionally went into element about how they approached writing the character for tv versus the online game. Not having to think about gameplay when it got here to casting Abby on the present meant that her physique wasn’t as essential an element this time round.
“Within the sport, you must play each characters [Ellie and Abby] and we’d like them to play in a different way,” Druckmann defined. “We would have liked Ellie to really feel smaller and form of maneuver round, and Abby was meant to play extra like Joel in that she’s nearly like a brute in the best way she will bodily manhandle sure issues. That doesn’t play as huge of a job on this model of the story as a result of there’s not as a lot violent motion second to second. It’s extra in regards to the drama. I’m not saying there’s no motion right here. It’s simply, once more, completely different priorities and the way you strategy it.”
However there’s extra to the change than a easy “video games and tv are completely different media” clarification, based on Mazin. He sees Dever’s model of the character as a recent method to inform the story from the sport.
“I personally assume that there’s an incredible alternative right here to delve into somebody who is probably bodily extra weak than the Abby within the sport, however whose spirit is stronger,” Mazin stated. “After which the query is, ‘The place does her formidable nature come from and the way does it manifest?’ That’s one thing that shall be explored now and later.”
