{"id":274408,"date":"2026-02-04T23:22:10","date_gmt":"2026-02-04T23:22:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/274408\/"},"modified":"2026-02-04T23:22:10","modified_gmt":"2026-02-04T23:22:10","slug":"lendeborg-jr-duvall-join-the-last-of-us","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/274408\/","title":{"rendered":"Lendeborg Jr., DuVall Join &#8220;The Last of Us&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>            <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/lendeborg-jr-duvall-join-the-last-of-us.jpg\" data-caption=\"Lionsgate, Peacock\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1200\" height=\"800\" class=\"entry-thumb td-modal-image\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/lendeborg-jr-duvall-join-the-last-of-us.jpg\"   alt=\"\" title=\"lendeborg-jr-duvall-join-the-last-of-us\"\/><\/a>Lionsgate, Peacock<\/p>\n<p>Jorge Lendeborg Jr. (\u201cBumblebee,\u201d \u201cAlita: Battle Angel\u201d)  and Clea DuVall (\u201cPoker Face,\u201d \u201cHappiest Season\u201d) have both joined the cast of HBO\u2019s \u201cThe Last of Us\u201d for the upcoming third season.<\/p>\n<p>Lendeborg Jr. is set to take over the role of Manny Alvarez, replacing Danny Ramirez who played the recurring role in the second season but couldn\u2019t return due to scheduling conflicts.<\/p>\n<p>Manny is a close friend of Abby Anderson (Kaitlyn Dever), a member of the Washington Liberation Front and a former member of the Fireflies.<\/p>\n<p>DuVall, meanwhile, will play one of the Seraphites.  There are only a handful of Seraphite characters, though one possibility is Emily \u2013 a woman who captures Abby at one point in a scene introducing two key new characters.<\/p>\n<p>As HBO exec Casey Bloys indicated the other day, this third season is looking likely to finish adapting \u201cThe Last of Us Part II\u201d game and thus will mark the final season of the show.  The vast majority of the season will unfold from Abby\u2019s perspective.<\/p>\n<p>Craig Mazin, who served as executive producer\/co-showrunner alongside Neil Druckmann in the first two seasons, will be sole showrunner for Season 3 following Druckmann\u2019s departure.<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/2026\/02\/the-last-of-us-clea-duvall-jorge-lendeborg-jr-manny-s3-1236707696\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Deadline<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Lionsgate, Peacock Jorge Lendeborg Jr. (\u201cBumblebee,\u201d \u201cAlita: Battle Angel\u201d) and Clea DuVall (\u201cPoker Face,\u201d \u201cHappiest Season\u201d) have both&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":274409,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[63746,146,85,46,411],"class_list":["post-274408","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tv","tag-bigslider","tag-entertainment","tag-il","tag-israel","tag-tv"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/274408","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=274408"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/274408\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/274409"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=274408"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=274408"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=274408"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}