“I will say, my partner who I watched the episode with was really affected by it… He turned to me at the end and was like, ‘I don’t want you to get sick’,” he told The Independent. Bill (Nick Offerman) and Frank (Murray Bartlett) in The Last of Us. It’s not the first time Bartlett has spoken about his partner’s reaction to the episode.Įarlier in February, the actor shared that Matt had been “really affected” by the make-up that was used to portray Frank in his old age. “It was a joy working with Nick, and he was very funny between takes – not like he was doing a stand-up routine – but just that twinkle in the eye and a very dry sense of humour, which was a lovely contrast to some of the scenes we were doing.” “Nick is such a good person,” he added, “and such a gentleman through and through and just an old-school guy that cares about all the things you want someone to care about. “There was this sort of understanding of like, ‘You know where I get that from, right?’ and ‘Would you do that for me? Because …’ Which was lovely,” Bartlett continued.ĭespite the hard hitting themes in the episode, Bartlett, who has previously opened up about his “chemistry” with his Offerman, went on to say that he had “a lot of fun” filming with his co-star. “So, we were familiar with that, and we could bring that experience to what we were doing in episode three.”īartlett, who lives with Matt in Massachusetts, also revealed his partner’s reaction to the episode, explaining that although they didn’t exchange many words, there was an unspoken understanding about the tender onscreen relationship. Murray Bartlett says the ‘deep love’ for his partner inspired his The Last of Us character. “Because I was saying this to Nick, that we are both lucky to be in relationships where we found a partner that we have an incredible bond with, and we feel this deep love.
“Our relationship was a bit of a reference point for what and I were doing in the episode,” Bartlett began.
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