This text incorporates spoilers for Alien: Romulus.
Audiences who cherished Isabela Merced‘s efficiency in Alien: Romulus may really feel a way of déjà vu whereas watching Season 2 of HBO‘s The Last of Us, coming in 2025.
In a wild case of onscreen serendipity, Romulus director Fede Álvarez revealed that Merced’s pregnant character Kay in his Alien sequel was impressed by the Final of Us online game character Dina, whom the actress can also be set to painting.
“Enjoyable truth: I used to be taking part in #TheLastOfUs2 whereas writing #AlienRomulus,” he shared Friday on X. “The story of a pregnant Dina made me consider having the character of Kay be pregnant too. Then I solid Isabella Merced to play Kay…. A 12 months later she will get solid to play Dina on the HBO present…. True story.”
The director’s newest behind-the-scenes secret comes after he was temporarily banned from an Alien subreddit for “impersonating” himself in a spoiler-heavy reveal concerning the characters Kay and her cousin Bjorn (Spike Fearn).
“Proper earlier than Bjorn’s loss of life, he and Kay share a second the place they contact one another in a really intimate method. Am I the one one who thought this was an indication that Bjorn is the ‘jerk’ who bought her pregnant?” the redditor requested, to which Álvarez replied, “Sure he’s. Good catch!”
The seventh installment within the franchise — set between the occasions of the primary two movies, Alien (1979) and Aliens (1986) — follows a gaggle of younger area colonizers as they scavenge a derelict area station, coming face-to-face with a xenomorph.
Co-written by Álvarez and Rodo Sayagues, Alien: Romulus additionally stars Caliee Spaeny, David Jonsson, Archie Renaux and Aileen Wu. The film opened to $108.2 million globally, the second-best opening for the franchise and a profession finest for each Álvarez and Spaeny.
In a promo spot for Max‘s 2024-’25 season launched earlier this month, a first-look at Season 2 of The Final of Us teased Merced’s portrayal of Dina, who serves because the accomplice, co-conspirator and eventual love curiosity of Ellie (performed by Bella Ramsey) within the online game.
