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Storm Reid joins HBO’s The Last of Us as Riley

January 19, 2022 by Gary Collinson

HBO’s The Last of Us has made a new addition to its cast, with Entertainment Weekly reporting that Euphoria actress Storm Reid has joined the adaptation of the acclaimed video game in the role of Riley Abel.

An orphan girl growing up in post-apocalyptic Boston, the Riley character made her debut in the 2014 expansion The Last of Us: Left Behind and is the best friend of protagonist Ellie, who is being played in the series by Bella Ramsey (Game of Thrones).

As with the video game, The Last of Us series is “set 20 years after modern civilization has been destroyed and centres on the relationship between Joel, a smuggler in this new world, and Ellie, a teenager who may be key to a cure for a deadly pandemic. Joel, a hardened survivor, is hired to smuggle the 14-year-old girl out of an oppressive quarantine zone. What starts as a small job soon becomes a brutal, heartbreaking journey as they traverse the U.S. and depend on each other for survival.”

Reid joins a cast that includes the aforementioned Bella Ramsey along with Pedro Pascal (The Mandalorian) as Joel, Gabriel Luna (Terminator: Dark Fate) as Tommy, Nico Parker (The Third Day) as Sarah, Jeffrey Pierce (Bosch) as Perry, Murray Bartlett (The White Lotus) as Frank, Anna Torv (Mindhunter) as Tess, Bill Offerman (Parks and Recreation) as Bill, and Merle Dandridge reprising her video game role as Marlene.

The Last of Us is expected to premiere on HBO later in the year.

 

Filed Under: Gary Collinson, News, Television, Video Games Tagged With: HBO, Storm Reid, the last of us, The Last of Us: Left Behind

About Gary Collinson

Gary Collinson is a film, TV and digital content producer and writer, who is the founder of the pop culture website Flickering Myth and producer of the gothic horror feature film 'The Baby in the Basket' and the upcoming suspense thriller 'Death Among the Pines'.

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