TLOU Showrunners Wanted To Ensure Ellie And Dina’s First Kiss Was Perfect
Season 2 of HBO’s The Last of Us finally premiered this past Sunday with a series best of 8.2 million viewers, and introduced a host of new characters to the show. Showrunner Craig Mazin said the sophomore season would be bigger in every sense, but still wanted to recapture some of the sequel’s more intimate and quiet moments. The first kiss between Ellie and Dina during the New Year’s Eve dance was one of them.
During the post-episode featurette, The Last of Us creator and co-director Neil Druckmann explained how he saw Dina and how Ellie is trying to navigate this awkwardness of a potential romance.
“Dina became this interesting person that Ellie becomes infatuated with, and we see that throughout this episode that it’s not only her friend, and someone she respects and admires, it’s someone that she likes,” he said. “She doesn’t quite know how to deal with it because she’s Ellie, and she’s awkward, and she’s a teenager.”
