Josh Peck makes shock “The Final of Us” cameo: ‘Folks simply would not see it coming’

Warning: This text accommodates spoilers from The Final of Us season 2, episode 4, "Day One."

The Last of Us isn't fairly as cameo-heavy in season 2 because it was in season 1, but it surely does have a former Drake & Josh star.

Josh Peck makes an surprising cameo within the fourth episode, "Day One," enjoying an obnoxious FEDRA soldier who tells a crass story behind a truck in the course of the opening flashback scene. Images from the set that Peck shared on Instagram verify his character's identify is Janowicz.

"That was so enjoyable," Kate Herron, the episode's director, tells Leisure Weekly. "We had folks learn [for the part], clearly. Josh's learn got here in, and Josh is implausible. We had been like, 'We have to get Josh.' But in addition the thought of it simply being Josh…I really like the thought we get to Drew Barrymore him in Scream. Folks simply wouldn't see it coming."

The scene took viewers again to the Seattle quarantine zone within the yr 2018 to be able to arrange the town that Ellie (Bella Ramsey) and Dina (Isabela Merced) stroll into 11 years later. Janowicz advised a narrative to his fellow FEDRA troopers about three "voters" (the derogatory identify FEDRA gave to Seattle residents after stripping their voting rights) he stopped for disseminating pamphlets. He known as for backup, and a person named Greenberg arrived.

"I caught them out right here disseminating," Janowicz stated. "He goes, 'What? You f—ing perverts had been out right here splooging on my road?'"

The story has a equally inappropriate finish after one of many voters tries to clarify what disseminating means. "Greenberg smacks his f—ing head towards the wall and there goes his enamel, simply blood f—ing in all places," Janowicz relayed. "Greenberg goes, 'Nobody requested you, jizz boy.'"

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Janowicz and the vast majority of the opposite troopers in that militia truck don't survive even 5 minutes after that inappropriate story. Jeffrey Wright's Isaac Dixon, their commanding sergeant, determined to avoid wasting one soldier, Burton (The Gilded Age's Ben Ahlers), earlier than locking the remainder contained in the automobile with lively hand grenades. It's the second Isaac betrayed FEDRA for the WLF (the Washington Liberation Entrance), the militia group he'll rise by the ranks to guide someday.

"I really feel like those who know the horror style would possibly work it out, they is perhaps like, 'I really feel like he would possibly die,' however you wouldn't anticipate it," Herron says.

"Man, this was a tricky secret to maintain," Peck wrote on Instagram alongside photographs he took of his time on set. "It was an honor to play a small half in one in all my favourite reveals, with one in all my favourite actors ever."

Season 2's first episode, "Future Days," featured a cameo from Gustavo Santaolalla, who composed the music for 2013's The Final of Us online game and its 2020 sequel. Santaolalla appeared as one of many musicians performing on the Jackson city occasion.

On the official companion podcast for The Last of Us, hosted by authentic Joel actor Troy Baker, showrunner Craig Mazin stated the complete sequence with Isaac, Janowicz, and Burton "was impressed by a second you’ve the place you're wandering round within the recreation."

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Neil Druckmann, the opposite showrunner and a co-creator of the supply materials, "put all these little moments inside the sport, these little tales which can be elective, folks can discover them or not," Mazin continued. "They’re these notes which can be left behind by some FEDRA officers who’re lengthy lifeless. However you understood that in Seattle, there was a second the place FEDRA officers began turning on FEDRA as a result of it was not working properly, and that there was, in reality, a sort of internecine warfare."

"There’s a truck that you simply discover that has been blown up with the folks nonetheless inside as a part of this rebellion," Druckmann added on the podcast.

"And so then in my bizarre head, I begin considering, 'Properly, how did that occur?'" Mazin stated.

The Final of Us continues to premiere new episodes each Sunday on HBO and Max.

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