Melanie Lynskey

Melanie Lynskey said she "knew that I liked working with him from our Mafia games" when discussing Craig Mazin's "The Last of Us" series.

This Sunday's episode of HBO's The Last of Us saw character actress Melanie Lynskey show off her chops as Kathleen, a brutal rebel leader who Joel and Ellie ...

However, most watchers are just excited to see such a talented actress take on a role that has lots of room for development as an antagonist for Joel and Ellie. In the sitcom, Lynskey plays the unstable Rose, Charlie’s neighbor and stalker. [The Last of Us](https://wegotthiscovered.com/tag/the-last-of-us/) saw character actress Melanie Lynskey show off her chops as Kathleen, a brutal rebel leader who Joel and Ellie come across while making their way through a post-apocalyptic U.S.

Her performance as Kathleen, a resistance leader based in Kansas City, is classic Lynskey: gentle on the surface, terrifying storm below. Kathleen is grieving, ...

Guest stars are burning bright in The Last of Us. His backstory – the loss of his family – fits naturally into the themes of the show. In the context of videogame adaptations, it’s thrillingly radical. The type of people who can live – and thrive – in this terrible new world. Even if you found the praise misplaced – declarations that it was the best hour of television ever are baffling – that final point is undeniable: the world of video games and their screen adaptations is not known for its thorough depiction of LGBT characters. The solidly-told sequence, which certainly bore many hallmarks of what good TV is supposed to look like, was praised for its sensitivity, acting, and how it defied expectations of the genre.

The actor went on to say that she was impressed just by how the showrunner would plan a Mafia game and coordinate everyone's characters. She said: "It sounds so ...

She said: "We had Slack channels going for every single special character where he and I were communicating with people. She added: "But I knew that I liked working with him from our Mafia games. I knew I could trust him to be meticulous." I was such a fan of his writing." At the very beginning of the pandemic, he and I would cohost Mafia games together on Zoom, and they got so elaborate and so crazy." Lynskey said: "I know Craig Mazin personally, and I'm just such a fan of who he is as a human being.