The Last of Us Season 2’s Isabela Merced Reveals One Dina and Ellie Scene Was Completely Improvised

As The Last of Us season 2 sadly heads towards its final episode in the next week, Isabela Merced reveals a scene with Dina and Ellie that was improvised in a bid to showcase the duo's real-life dynamic, in which they went off script during a funny moment. Just like the Naughty Dog sequel that the show has been adapted from, season 2 has already seen a host of traumatic events unfold. Joel's journey came to a sad end in The Last of Us episode 2 at the hands of Abby Anderson in a brutal revenge attack for the death of her father, Jerry, and the aftermath of this for Ellie as she tries to bury her dark emotions into her quest for blood to kill Abby and the rest of the WLF members.

The Last of Us Season 2, episode 2, titled 'Through the Valley,' will be remembered by fans as one of its most traumatic and shocking, especially for non-gamers who had no idea Pedro Pascal's Joel was about to bite the bullet. However, in a bid to steer away from the dark side for a while, another scene in the episode was much more light-hearted as Jennifer Aniston made a small, blink and you miss it cameo. Staying within the show's more positive and uplifting light (because god knows viewers need it), Merced, who plays Dina, explains how one of the show's lighter scenes was actually made up on the spot between her and Ellie.

Isabela Merced Reveals Dina and Ellie’s Funny Sign Language Scene Was Improvised

In Sony's Creator to Creator YouTube video, in which the actors who play Ellie, Dina, and Jesse were joined by HBO's The Last of Us creator Craig Mazin, Isabela Merced revealed that the scene in episode 2 of the show where Dina and Ellie are crawling into the grocery store to hunt down clickers and communicated via sign language wasn't part of the scrip. Merced said that the scene "wasn't written down. What was written down was to point to the bottle, point to the knife, and you go here and I go there, and then we just started," (referring to their own language, like Ellie pretending to cut her throat with blood spluttering out.)

Merced said that this silly and fun display was giving fans a "little peek into how we really are." Mazin stated that this scene was only Ramsey and Merced's third day of shooting, and, upon seeing their obvious chemistry, he was relieved that they got on so well. "So I'm thinking this is going to be fine. They're already so comfortable with each other. It was instant." Mazin also offered a little context behind that particular scene by revealing that Dina and Ellie were a little too confident, and they "handled these things before," so they wanted to give Ellie a more advanced challenge by making her fall through the floor to encounter a stalker, which she hadn't come up against previously.

The Last of Us Season 2 streams on Max, with new episodes dropping every Sunday until May 25.