{"id":90232,"date":"2026-09-28T10:07:05","date_gmt":"2026-09-28T14:07:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/?p=90232"},"modified":"2026-09-28T10:41:44","modified_gmt":"2026-09-28T14:41:44","slug":"the-last-of-us-season-3-adds-john-goodman-and-even-more-actors-from-the-games","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/?p=90232","title":{"rendered":"The Last Of Us Season 3 Adds John Goodman And Even More Actors From The Games"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">HBO has announced further casting details for the upcoming third and possibly final season of The Last of Us. <\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Two actors from the games are set to appear in Season 3&#8211;Laura Bailey and Ian Alexander&#8211;along with prolific veteran actor John Goodman, <a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/2026\/09\/the-last-of-us-season-3-john-goodman-cast-1237114224\/\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/2026\/09\/the-last-of-us-season-3-john-goodman-cast-1237114224\/\">as relayed by Deadline<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Bailey played Abby in Naughty Dog&#8217;s The Last of Us: Part II, with Alexander portraying Lev. For the TV show, however, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gamespot.com\/articles\/the-last-of-us-season-3-has-a-curious-casting-decision-for-a-key-role\/1100-6538942\/\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.gamespot.com\/articles\/the-last-of-us-season-3-has-a-curious-casting-decision-for-a-key-role\/1100-6538942\/\">Kyriana Kratter is set to play Lev<\/a>, while Kaitlyn Dever plays Abby. <\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Bailey will play Elizabeth, one of the Seraphite leaders, while Alexander will portray Paco, alongside Goodman as Joey. Joey and Paco are described as &#8220;Heroes of the Highway,&#8221; but that&#8217;s all we know. Goodman has worked with HBO before, starring on the comedy series The Righteous Gemstones. <\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Bailey&#8217;s performance as Abby was memorable, and controversial. She received a lot of online hate, and people even <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gamespot.com\/articles\/the-last-of-us-2s-big-death-was-controversial-at-naughty-dog-too\/1100-6539636\/\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.gamespot.com\/articles\/the-last-of-us-2s-big-death-was-controversial-at-naughty-dog-too\/1100-6539636\/\">sent death threats to her newborn baby<\/a>.<\/p>\n<figure data-wp-interactive=\"core\/image\" class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-ref-id=\"1897789\" data-wp-on--click=\"actions.core.image.showLightbox\" style=\"cursor: zoom-in\" height=\"592\" width=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/www.gamespot.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/Screenshot-2026-09-28-at-9.32.59-AM-1.png?w=636\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1897789\" \/>John Goodman previously appeared on another HBO show, The Righteous Gemstones. Many actors from the games have been on the show <\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Bailey and Alexander are just the latest actors from the games to appear<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>HBO has announced further casting details for the upcoming third and possibly final season of The Last of Us. Two actors from the games are set to appear in Season 3&#8211;Laura Bailey and Ian Alexander&#8211;along with prolific veteran actor John Goodman, as relayed by Deadline. Bailey played Abby in Naughty Dog&#8217;s The Last of Us:&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26,"featured_media":90234,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[56],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-90232","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-external"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90232"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/26"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=90232"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90232\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":90235,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90232\/revisions\/90235"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/90234"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=90232"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=90232"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=90232"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}