EXCLUSIVE: Lux Pascal on Watching Brother Pedro Die on ‘The Last of Us’
WEST HOLLYWOOD, CALIFORNIA - JANUARY 15: (L-R) Pedro Pascal and Lux Pascal attend the HBO & Max Post Emmys Reception at San Vicente Bungalows on January 15, 2024 in West Hollywood, California. (Photo by FilmMagic.com/FilmMagic for HBO & Max )
Fans of The Last of Us, you’re not alone in your anger/grief at the untimely death of Pedro Pascal’s Joel in Season 2 Episode 2. His equally talented sister Lux Pascal wasn’t ok with seeing her brother like that either.
During the 2025 Premios Platino Awards in Madrid, Spain, Remezcla got a chance to catch up with Lux. Amongst the many things that we talked about, we asked her if she’d watched the harrowing episode “Through the Valley” and if she’d seen the shocked and destraught reactions people were posting online. Short answer: yes, she’s seen them. And she’s with us.
“I have to say that being Pedro Pascal’s sister, I knew how that episode would end. I knew what was going to happen,” Lux said. The death of his character Joel was one of the most highly anticipated moments of season 2. And his death was just as shocking on screen as it was when The Last of Us: Part II game released in 2020.
“But even so, I saw it and I wanted to throw the iPad,” Lux added before recounting the multiple times Pedro has died on screen. “It’s not the first time he’s done it to me. It’s not the second time he’s done it to me. I think it’s the fourth time he’s done it to me. Because how many deaths has he had? Game of Thrones, Equalizer 2, The Last of Us.”
And for Lux, who is also in the acting business and knows this is part of the job, it doesn’t get easier to see her brother Pedro go through the ringer like this. She added: “Each death is more violent than the other. And seeing my brother die that way, I didn’t like it at all.”
Lux Pascal can be seen next in Miss Carbón. It’s a movie about a transgender woman who lands her dream job working in a carbon mine. But after after having a sex-change surgery, she must face superstiticions that ban female workers from entering the underground galleries. She also has an upcoming short titled Friends Like in the works.
