The Last of Us Season 2 was in the very early stages of coming together when the WGA strike kicked off, with showrunner Craig Mazin revealing he’d finished one script when everything shut down. Now that we’re in a post-strike world, the HBO hit is gearing up for production on its second round of heartbreaking episodes, and a new casting rumor points to an A+ actress being eyed for the role of the polarizing video game antagonist Abby Anderson: Kaitlyn mother-fluffing Dever.
The new rumor comes from The Insneider, which reports that Last Man Standing vet and No One Will Save You star Kaitlyn Dever is quite possibly the talent that Mazin brought up in August when he claimed to have found TLoU’s Abby. The actress is said to be in talks to take on the part, with negotiations unable to get worked out whenever the SAG-AFTRA strike was still ongoing. And I’m not sure I’ve ever wished so hard for a casting rumor to be true.
