Alert the spoiler! This post contains details of season 2, episode 3 of HBO's Another of us.
After a second and raised second episode, the second season of Another of us The audience and its characters alike gave a space for sadness and tackling the traces of shock in the third episode on Sunday night.
The story escalates in direct hours after Joel's death and the attack on Jackson, where the streets are still on fire while Tommy (Gabriel Luna) visits his brother in the temporary morgue. He holds the position of a woman sitting with Joel, cleaning his body, and for his last moments alone with his older brother to say goodbye. Meanwhile, Elie (Bella Ramsey) wakes up in the hospital, screaming as she sees the image of Abe (Kaitlein Defler) stabbing Joel in the neck with a broken golf club burning in her head, before she is numbs quickly again.
Three months later, things feel quieter, but the deep cracks that lasted that night remained for both Eli and Tommy, as they concluded whether they will follow Abe and her crew, which Dina (Isabella Mercyid) was concluded in Seattle. They put a vote, and in the end, the Council requires a suggestion of resource spending in that task, given the remaining reconstruction to carry out in their home – but this does not prevent Elie and Dina from starting the dangerous task itself.
“Tommy vote yes, and he is ready to go out with it,” says Luna for the pluscinemaz.comline. “I think a part of me knows that it will go. This is definitely the reason why I am going to a generation immediately and try to ask the lawyer and type to give myself permission to follow the feelings I also face. Maybe I am afraid that you will go and do something stupid, as I say, and because this is what I want to do, and do not have the same Tethers.”
In the interview below, Luna dissects the complex emotional state of Tommy in Episode 3 while pulling it in multiple directions from Eli, his city, his family and his own needs. He also shares a great difference in the video game that he says he suggested to add more differences and depth to the Arch of Tommy this season.
The deadline: There is a lot of emotional heavy lifting in this episode. We start from a circle full of movement to one quieter, but it is full of sadness, sadness and confusion. How did you start understanding where the area of Tommy's head will be in the months that followed the loss of his brother?
Gabriel Luna: We see him in direct effects with the start of the episode, and I expected it more than any of the event things. I could not say I was not enthusiastic about all the procedures and I didn't expect it. Of course, one should be, but there was something about what he just called “one man and wake up”, which is basically the return of his brother. It is just there. I thought, whenever that night will come, how important this is [given] The reflection that we ask about the audience after such a huge shift in the story, Joel's death and the attack on Jackson. So, first of all, I was trying to relax, because when I got there at night, I was all exposed to this. To the extent that when we were in a rehearsal, the moment when the words said, “Give Sarah my love,” I was already crying. I had to calibrate quickly and a little slowdown, because we had many settings and a lot of coverage to do. But the only thing I did is to ask Peter, our manager, if we can only shoot the closest first, because I was already there. It was really interesting night. It was a nice shooting. The streets were frighteningly empty. It was real streets. We were in the Jackson group that we built abroad, which was several blocks in the city of Jackson. At that moment, we were shooting in the chaos hall, in the restaurant, which was a building that works completely, but I was standing myself before I took, in the middle of the road, and I was only and like two of the special effects that illuminated all the flame movements that gave all the elements of the fire that occurred outside the windows, because the city was still burning and giving up.
So I only remember to be alone there, think about the scene, try to enter it, and perhaps a kind of thinking about it in some way. But the moment I entered and saw the body a kind of lying down there, which was actually a dual body called Philip, a gentle man who really had a full makeup for me so that I could respond to it when I raise the shroud. The moment I was in that room, there was a kind of honesty about everything. I remembered many of the funerals that I was in my life, I just went, did the scene and honestly spoke. There is a lot of dialogue in this scene that we cut, which is good, because it was an important dialogue, but there is nothing more important than feeling that my brother will be with his daughter and my brother's daughter, and this is all that matters.
The deadline: I must imagine that Tommy feels a lot of complex feelings in this scene, and throughout the episode. He suffered from his shock to attack Jackson. His brother died. It has become somewhat from Elie's eyeliner overnight. How did you think about all of this during the shooting?
Luna: I think the way it is truly written and places itself in each of these angles that attack the spirit of Tommy. I think there is a lot of what happens. No one, it is an essential part of rebuilding. Therefore, he thinks about society as a whole. He has his anger and his own guilt for his lack of existence, which is a very interesting change that we made from the game – which was somewhat requested in the first season, and then I am grateful because Neil and Crigig were retired, which is the idea that Tommy will not be there, and the person who expels the group will not be to our names and warm us. It occurs in a more organic and type of certification way [in the show] When you accelerate to reach safety, she calls, “Joel, let's go.” So in the game, like Tommy, “I am Tommy. This is Joel, to a completely strange person, who, as I think, has not always had a logical for me. We have changed all of this, because getting great people is great and adapting. There is a lot of guilt now for Tommy there was no strong desire to find these people and obtain them, but there is also an obligation towards society and adhering to our laws and the way we do things.
Between him and Elie, [Bella and I] You already have this really beautiful relationship. I love Bella and take care of them a lot. So it was easy to play all of this. We all know that we move from Pedro's beautiful leadership to the leadership of Bella, Ketlin, I and I and the people who will continue to tell the story. There is awareness of this within the characters. There are also adults that Eli Hu. I was more noticeable about the amount of growth that happened there, how much development, and the person you became, the warrior you have been. I know how much it is able to do so. So there is a little … from allowing options, trying to manage them, and trying to know how to balance all these things, and what is the duty to protect them. But can I protect it? Can I protect it from itself? This is a kind of questions that I have later, I think, with a generation, when we sit in the ball game.
The deadline: Another major change is that, in the show, Elie and Dina leaves for Seattle first. In the game, Tommy goes himself first and follows him. There is also no kind of voting on the council on whether a crew will be sent. Do you think, at least at least, Tommy believes that there is a world where Elie does not go? Or do you think he always knew that, regardless of the outcome of the vote, she would leave?
Luna: I mean, Tommy vote yes, and he is ready to ride with it. But again, his wife and society deserve an opinion, and he is also ready to honor this. I think part of me knows that it will go. This is definitely the reason why I am going to Gail immediately and try to search for a lawyer and myself giving myself to follow the feelings I also face. Maybe I am afraid that she will go and do something stupid, as I say, and because this is what I want to do, and it does not have the same phones that I do. So, yes, I think there is something for that and in a kind of surrender to the power of nature it is. Surrender to events while playing. I think something. There is something for a type of release. At this stage, every option for us will, unfortunately, will start, I think.
The deadline: In that conversation with a generation, she invites Elie a liar. Tommy really hairs in that and try to defend them. Why? Do you think it can reconcile with Elie's description?
Luna: It is my family. She talks about my family, and I know goodness in it, but a generation knows the truth. This is a kind of what I went there to see. I went there to ask her, which is to convey the truth that she sees in people. I think, quickly, then realize somewhat not checking this child. At the same time, I don't like hearing it, just like any of us does not like to hear people talking about the people we love. I think it is just a lot of this kind of intestinal reaction to the family who takes care of the family.
The deadline: Joel has always been a protector of his family and the people he loved at any cost. Now that he is gone, how Tommy looks at the role that he might have or does not have to interfere in it in order to preserve the safety of people?
Luna: I think it took a lot until Tommy was broken and tamed in his life. Now that he became in his life – they were just a few months away from the stability they were looking for, and that they were trying to build. I think it's a very confusing time for him. Personally, it is not well equipped for that. He is a person who lives to serve. I think Joel is called a follower in the first season. I think this is from Joel's point of view. He says this from a place to hurt, because of the fact that his brother left him. So it is like, “Well, my brother left me because he went to follow something else.” But, in fact, I think everything about Tommy is the service. For this reason, joined the army. For this reason is in the Security Council. For this reason he serves his wife as a kind of right hand. For a person who has that instinct – and now Elli is devoted to being the parental personality. He inherited it now, and there must be for her. So I think it is fair, even from the first episode, you see it is drawn and connected in all directions. I think this is very confusing and very difficult for him.
The deadline: Anything else you want to add?
Luna: I love Elie Dina's dynamic and where is it happening. People playing the game, we have an idea, but there are a lot of great and amazing things that will come. To be removed slightly from the death of Joel, three months enough time to take a different shape to people. It is now less than the rush and rash, and now it is calculated and designed, which makes it more terrifying. It makes these options heavier and heavier. But then, all these beautiful and hidden moments that Bella and Ezi put together.
