Jennifer Aniston reacted with good humor to her surprising, blink-and-you-miss-it cameo in HBO’s hit online game adaptation The Final of Us.
Within the season two premiere of the post-apocalyptic collection, Bella Ramsey’s Ellie explores a dilapidated grocery retailer the place she stumbles throughout an previous 2003 Individuals journal challenge that includes Aniston on the duvet.
She rapidly flips by it, however a distant noise startles her, and he or she tosses it to the bottom.
“Of all issues to outlive the apocalypse [crying laughing emoji],” wrote the 56-year-old Buddies star on her Instagram Story on Tuesday alongside a clip of the scene.
Final month, Aniston, who is sweet buddies with The Final of Us star Pedro Pascal, sparked romance rumors after the 2 had been noticed having dinner on the Tower Bar in West Hollywood.
Pascal, 50, has since shot down the hypothesis, telling E! Information on the pink carpet for the season two premiere of The Final of Us: “We’re buddies.”
He clarified that they weren’t alone on their dinner outing, however had been joined by “mutual buddies.” “It occurs,” he added.
When requested by an Entry Hollywood reporter on the premiere if he was “attempting to persuade” Aniston to affix The Final of Us, Pascal stated: “Or I’m going on her present.”
Aniston at the moment co-leads Apple TV+’s Emmy-winning information drama The Morning Present, which wrapped manufacturing on its forthcoming season 4 in December.
“That wouldn’t be a horrible factor,” Pascal joked about becoming a member of the solid.
He added: “I might do something for Jennifer. She’s that particular person. She’s that particular person to everybody. It’s simply that basically.”
The newest episode of The Final of Us, which aired Sunday within the U.S., left viewers distraught as one of the dreaded moments in TV historical past got here to fruition.
In the meantime, different followers had been left feeling “robbed” after the installment failed to incorporate a key scene shared between Ellie and Dina (Isabela Merced) from the online game.
Warning — Minor spoilers for ‘The Final of Us’ forward
Within the TV present, Ellie decides to go on patrol with Jesse (Younger Mazino), not Dina, as occurred within the recreation.
The change meant {that a} fan-favorite scene from the sport, through which Ellie and Dina uncover an previous hashish farm and have intercourse for the primary time on an previous couch, doesn’t happen at this level within the collection.
Talking to The Wrap in regards to the causes behind the adjustments, collection creator Neil Druckmann defined: “We’re constructing Jesse up greater than we did within the recreation.
“We wished to point out extra of his dynamic with Ellie, and the connection between Ellie and Dina takes a couple of completely different turns all through the entire season. So if you happen to’re conversant in the sport, in that weed develop home, that relationship goes elsewhere that has not occurred within the present.”
