{"id":73044,"date":"2025-05-05T10:50:17","date_gmt":"2025-05-05T14:50:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/usa\/?p=73044"},"modified":"2025-05-30T10:51:34","modified_gmt":"2025-05-30T14:51:34","slug":"the-last-of-us-season-2-actress-isabela-merced-shares-behind-the-scene-details-about-romantic-scene","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/usa\/the-last-of-us-season-2-actress-isabela-merced-shares-behind-the-scene-details-about-romantic-scene\/73044\/","title":{"rendered":"The Last of Us Season 2 actress Isabela Merced shares behind-the-scene details about romantic scene"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Isabela Merced, who portrays Dina in <em>The Last of Us<\/em> Season 2, recently shared insights on the thoughtful approach behind the romantic scenes between Dina and Ellie (played by Bella Ramsey). She highlighted the importance of making their intimate moments feel authentic and grounded in mutual consent.<\/p>\n<p>Merced praised the work of intimacy coordinator Kathy Kadler and director Kate Herron, who carefully choreographed the episode 4 sex scene to emphasize vulnerability, trust, and balanced agency between the characters. Having worked together for over half the season, Merced said she and Ramsey were already comfortable, which helped the process run smoothly.<\/p>\n<p>She explained that the scene was crafted to clearly show both Dina and Ellie had equal say in moving their relationship forward. \u201cI think it\u2019s showing they both have agency in this decision to take it to the next step. And I think it was beautiful,\u201d Merced reflected, calling the creative choices \u201creally wise.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Looking ahead, Merced dropped some tantalizing hints about Season 3. She expects that the upcoming season will put both Dina and Ellie through intense emotional challenges, potentially changing their dynamic significantly\u2014a prospect she finds exciting as an actor. Although she hasn\u2019t received detailed spoilers, Merced has shared her own ideas about how their relationship might evolve.<\/p>\n<p>She joked about the challenge of acting distant from Bella Ramsey if their characters grow apart: \u201cIt\u2019s going to be weird acting like I don\u2019t like Bella. It\u2019s going to be hard because I have such a sweet spot for them now.\u201d Merced also noted that showrunner Craig Mazin himself might not yet have the full picture of what\u2019s to come.<\/p>\n<p>Production on <em>The Last of Us<\/em> Season 3 is anticipated to begin in 2026. Merced is especially looking forward to episode 7, which she teased as a pivotal moment for Dina and Ellie\u2019s relationship.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Isabela Merced, who portrays Dina in The Last of Us Season 2, recently shared insights on the thoughtful approach behind\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":294,"featured_media":73045,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[67],"tags":[14391],"class_list":["post-73044","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-celebrity-news","tag-the-last-of-us-season-2"],"reading_time":"2 min read","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/usa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73044","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/usa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/usa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/usa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/294"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/usa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=73044"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/usa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73044\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/usa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/73045"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/usa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=73044"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/usa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=73044"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/usa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=73044"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}