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The Last of Us director Peter Hoar discusses the time Steven Spielberg wrote a letter praising “Long Long Time” to showrunner Craig Mazin.
You know you’ve made it as a pop culture institution when one of your stories touches on the greatest in the industry, as The Last of Us co-creator Craig Mazin found out after confirming a letter from legendary director Steven Spielberg regarding the HBO series’ third episode “Long, Long Time” which primarily focused on the lifelong love story between Bill (Nick Offerman) and Frank (Murray Bartlett) in the fungal apocalypse.
“Well, I didn’t get it directly, but [an actual Spielberg letter] came to Craig Mazin, the writer of my episode on ‘The Last of Us’ — the writer of all the episodes,” director Peter Hoar revealed to The Hollywood Reporter. “He shared it with myself, Nick Offerman, Murray Bartlett, and [cinematographer] Eben Bolter. Basically, a whole group of middle-aged men started squealing because their idol had realized who they were. I think he probably knew who everyone else was, but he didn’t know who I was. And now he’s probably forgotten.”
Mazin and Hoar worked together to draft the story that the original 2013 game barely scratched the surface of Bill’s life. “Craig may be straight, but he’s got the warmest heart,” Hoar said. “I think that’s partly why it is so universal because his attention was on the love rather than the gender. I’ve had many conversations about the character of Bill. Everyone goes, ‘Well, Bill’s a gay man.’ I was like, ‘Well, is he? He could be. But he hasn’t really defined himself in those words.’ Craig wrote from what he knew, as he’d been in a marriage for some number of years. He knew the things that categorized the success or failure of a relationship, and that’s what went in. They’re universal. I didn’t want it to feel that it was only one group of people’s story. I think if it had been, it wouldn’t have been as successful. It would’ve felt niche.”
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