The Last of Us Season 3 Finds Its New Manny as Two Actors Join the Cast

Jorge Lendeborg Jr. (Bumblebee) and Clea DuVall (Poker Face) person joined The Last of Us Season 3 arsenic HBO successfully recasts 1 of its supporting characters and fleshes retired the seraphites.

News connected the changes comes from Deadline, which reports Lendeborg Jr. volition beryllium the caller look playing the portion of the Washington Liberation Front’s (WLF) Manny. The portion was antecedently filled by Danny Ramirez for prime scenes successful Season 2, with the histrion said to beryllium stepping distant from the PlayStation video crippled adaptation owed to “scheduling reasons.”

(TOP) Jorge Lendeborg Jr. Photo by Frazer Harrison/Getty Images. (BOTTOM) Clea DuVall. Photo by Gilbert Flores/Veriety via Getty Images.

DuVall, meanwhile, has been tapped to play 1 of the galore individuals that makes up the faction known arsenic the seraphites. The group, which is known for disemboweling their enemies and communicating via tactical whistling, has mostly remained successful the inheritance successful The Last of Us amusement but volition reappear successful Season 3.

Like the seraphites, Manny, a loyal WLF worker and 1 of Abby’s (Kaitlyn Dever) closest allies, lone showed up a fistful of times done Season 2 and volition get much screentime successful the adjacent batch of episodes. His actor’s replacement arrives arsenic HBO continues adapting the events of The Last of Us Part 2 video game, portion the amusement shifts its absorption to a caller lead.

Warning! Spoilers for The Last of Us Season 2 follow.

After sending Bella Ramsey’s Ellie connected a travel of revenge, The Last of Us Season 2 near audiences with a cliffhanger that teased a play led by Dever’s Abby. It means fans should apt expect to conscionable caller characters and larn much astir aged ones arsenic the bid turns backmost the timepiece with a caller perspective. Although showrunner Craig Mazin has teased the adjacent play volition beryllium longer than the seven-episode Season 2 run, HBO brag Casey Bloys precocious suggested that Season 3 volition beryllium the show’s last.

The unit down The Last of Us amusement shrank successful July erstwhile Naughty Dog caput and bid co-creator Neil Druckmann announced helium would beryllium leaving the task to absorption connected continuing the improvement of Intergalactic: The Heretic Prophet. Just aft his departure, Bloys said Season 3 was planned to premiere successful 2027, but an exact, factual merchandise day has yet to beryllium confirmed.

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