Nick Offerman, the star of episode three of The Last of Us, revealed on the talk show Jimmy Kimmel Live that he hasn’t touched a video game in 25 years and that his last experience with the medium was Banjo-Kazooie. More specifically, he said:
“Then it’s over, and you’re like ‘yes, I won’, and immediately I’m like, ‘what have I done with my life?’. And so I decided I’m never going to do that again – and thankfully, because games have gotten so good, like The Last of Us, that I think I’d be in a basement and I wouldn’t even be going to audition for shows like this.”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Unh3kan_tFc/
Offerman’s interpretation of the character Bill in The Last of Us has been highly praised by critics, so perhaps it was fortunate that he didn’t play it before and got a different take on what Bill would be like. Neither Pedro Pascal nor Bella Ramsey had played The Last of Us to prepare for their roles as Joel and Ellie.
