The Last of Us Season 2 Casting Continues with Isabela Merced Set to Play Dina

Waiting for the comments;

‘BUT SHE WEARS HER HAIR UP IN THE TV SERIES - HOW IS THIS GOOD CASTING’

But aside from the fandom drama, some great signings already and I am so pumped for the new series once it airs… in 3028.

This is ridiculous, why hire someone who has their hair down for this role.

This might be their best casting yet! Perfect!

I suppose she's fine though she isn't that good of an actress and has yet to show why Hollywood is hyping her.

Wasn't Dina of Jewish decent? Wasn't that a big part of her character?

Everyone I know that doesn't play games loves the show. Gamers are unhappy people and hard to please.

@Triumph741 So you saying that womens only value is their physical appearance? Thats pretty misogynistic. 😉

Dina was the only character in the game that really really annoyed me, I was somehow hoping they might have forgotten to cast her in the show, good casting though, I guess.

Looking forward to the point when the show is done and we/ND/Sony can concentrate on the games again

@Triumph741 I guarantee you plenty of conventionally attractive women experience misogynistic attitudes and comments on social media lol

@Americansamurai1 Yeah but Hollywood don't care about that.

@Ralizah Not about casting choices

She's cast in the new alien movie too. Alien romulus, comes out this year. Cannot wait for that movie

@DennisReynolds yeah very true.

Never heard of the actress but as soon as I saw that pic on Twitter earlier I knew she’d be playing Dina. I do think her nose is a little small as @Americansamurai1 alluded to but only b/c Dina’s big nose is 1 of the first things I noticed about her, I have a thing for Mediterranean women, sue me.😂 Not all Jewish women have big noses though, I predict she’s still Jewish in the show,🤷🏻‍♂️

I liked her in instant family.

@Americansamurai1 I wouldn't say it was a major part of her character. I only recall them talking about it once while in a synagogue. The show can easily not have a scene in a synagogue and it becomes a non-issue.

@SlySnake0407 Druckmann decided that Dina would be Jewish fairly early in development. He felt that she struggles with the religion, not believing every part of the Torah, but her relationship with it remains important to her. Her name means "judgment" in Hebrew, which he felt reflected on the game's themes. As a narrative function, Dina represented the community. Found this online.

Isn't she a bit old for this version of Ellie?

She'd make a great Shadowheart from BG3.

@LifeGirl don't forget we have a time jump!

@slips666 But how are they going to age up Bella Ramsey?

Neat, I guess.

As long as the 2nd season is good, that's all I care about.

I enjoyed Season 1, though I felt like it should have been a few episodes longer to build a better relationship between Joel and Ellie and give the Finale a little more weight to it all.

Wait didn't someone play her in s1 already 😂

@LifeGirl I feel like they intentionally made Ramsey look younger for the first season, and they can do a lot to "age up" an actor/actress. "Dina" also doesn't look as old in other photos as the one used in this article. I think we will be ok.

@LifeGirl Movie magic🌟🌟🌟

They've been doing a lot of casting announcements this week. When they did the casting announcements for season 1 it was 23 months before season 1 started airing.

So using that same time frame, season 2 will be released end of 2025 or beginning of 2026.

Wish they had made better casting choices for Joel and Ellie. It’s hard to be excited about this new season when the first one was so lacklustre.

@bpomber 13months makes it feb 25?!

@PsBoxSwitchOwner oops, typo! I meant 23 months. Thanks for catching that.

@JSnow2

It is. Ignore the people who think we can't criticize the casting director's decisions as if said director's choices are some kind of act of god.

Abby's choice was horrible.

Dina's choice is good.

Possibly one of the only bits of good casting they've made