Matthew McConaughey was in the race of Joel in ‘The Last Of Us’

The Final Of Us author Craig Mazin revealed Matthew McConaughey, not Mahershala Ali, was approached for the position of Joel, which landed Pedro Pascal within the sequence.

Because the showrunner of the hit-HBO drama, Craig Mazin confirmed the rumors on the Glad Unhappy Confused podcast that the True Detective star was in talks for the position.

“I really by no means talked to Mahershala,” he confirmed.

“I did speak to Matthew. I would not say that it was severe; it was extra of identical to, ‘Hey, here is one thing we will discuss.'”

Additional, the author defined, “Initially, Pedro was on our record from the beginning, however we have been advised that he was unavailable.

After which, as we have been kinda floundering round a bit bit, I obtained a name from his agent who mentioned, ‘You realize, he really may be out there.'”

Earlier, the sequence actor Jeffrey Pierce, finest identified for voicing Tommy in video video games, advised The Direct, “I believe initially they’d talked to Mahershala Ali about taking part in Joel, which is an apparent cue that I am not gonna play Tommy.”