

That’s so weird because I know that face so well. I’ve seen the trailer so many times and I thought I was just going to, you know, be like ‘oh, there’s me,’ but that’s really jarring. “Sorry this is really weird for me,” she said, pausing the game while in tears.

But if you’re a fan of The Last of Us, it’s safe to say that you’re no stranger to that. What follows is a very emotional reaction from a performer who is not used to seeing themselves in popular media like this.īe warned, there is also some adult language used. Instantly, Caradonna’s face lights up in shock before the tears start rolling. Just at the 23:51 mark in the video above, Ellie encounters Dina for the first time. She first played through the Original The Last of Us, documenting that playthrough on her YouTube channel. In many instances, it feels like you’re playing through a movie, or at least an HBO original series (which is coming, by the way!).Ĭaradonna did not skip ahead to herself, though. The Last of Us Part 2 uses some amazing facial modeling technology and motion capture performances. However, despite that, Dina’s face is exactly Caradonna’s. Dina was performed by Shannon Woodward, who is best known for playing Elsie in the popular HBO series Westworld. Caradonna was the face model for Dina, but did not actually voice the character. The video can be seen in the player above. That was the case when Cascina Caradonna, the face model for Ellie’s primary love interest Dina, started playing through The Last Of Us: Part 2.

When antagonist Abby Anderson ( Laura Bailey) and the Washington Liberation Front kill Joel as revenge for the death of her father, Dina follows Ellie to Seattle in her own quest for revenge.It is always interesting in the era of game streaming to watch some of the talented performers who bring game characters to life play their own game. Shortly before the events of the sequel game, she was in a relationship with Jesse ( Stephen Chang), and the two had a child together, baby JJ. Not much is known about Dina's story before she moved to Jackson, only that she's an orphan and had an older sister named Talia, who was killed a few years earlier. In the sequel, though, Ellie is now the main playable character, with Dina being the one to provide backup. In the original game, we play mostly through Joel's perspective, while Ellie follows him closely to provide backup and aid. She becomes Ellie's girlfriend when the two of them go on a regular patrol mission the next day and get stranded in an abandoned library during a blizzard.

That girl was Dina, played by Cascina Caradonna and voiced by Shannon Woodward. Right at the beginning of The Last of Us Part II, a party sequence sees Ellie dancing with a girl and making all the boys terrified and jealous.
