Rutina Wesley performs Maria on HBO’s The Final of Us and he or she not too long ago admitted that taking at the function was once one thing terrifying.
“It’s terrifying enjoying a personality that’s been established, although it’s a recreation,” she informed Leisure Weekly in an interview. “However I additionally was once up for the problem of enjoying her in my means and hanging my power on it to peer what other people would call to mind that.”
Wesley joined the collection in Episode 6 as Maria, the chief of a agreement the place Pedro Pascal’s Joe unearths his brother Tommy, performed by way of Gabriel Luna. Maria and Tommy are married and feature a child at the means, which is the rationale Wesley feels her personality gravitated to Bella Ramsey’s Ellie.
“When you’re going to be a mom one day, I feel she naturally gravitates in opposition to Ellie in that motherly means with out her in reality even understanding she’s doing it,” Wesley stated. “It’s her intuition as a result of she will’t lend a hand that truth. Additionally, I feel that Maria is challenged by way of Ellie in some way that she secretly loves. I feel there’s part of Maria that’s taking a look at Ellie like, ‘Who is that this little lady?’”
Maria’s personality continues in The Final of Us Section II and as HBO showed a 2d season, Wesley is hopeful she is going to go back.
“I’m taking a look ahead to one thing in the event that they come to a decision to come back my means. I’m completely serious about that, as a result of I did have a laugh enjoying with Gabe. He’s in reality nice,” she added. “It could simply be like icing at the cake. That is sufficient the place it’s ’reason this is a large hit. So if it didn’t occur, I’d be nice with it as a result of this display is in reality excellent.”
