It was a dry day in October 2021, and Gabriel Luna was mooching around London Comic Con. A few months had passed since HBO had cast the twin stars of its lavish new video game adaptation The Last of Us – ex-Game of Thrones favourites Pedro Pascal and Bella Ramsey – and a randomer at the convention posited her choice to play Tommy, the brother of Pascal’s jaded apocalypse survivor Joel Miller.
“I remember this voice from the void being like, ‘You know who should play him? Gabriel Luna.’ I never thought twice of it,” Luna chuckles. “But that kid had some incredible foresight. She should go into casting.”
