Her performance has received critical acclaim winning Best Performance at The Game Awards 2020 and from IGN. 'It was difficult, but I think it's an incredible story, and I think Abby is, man, just one of the most amazing characters that I've ever played,' Bailey said. Despite the backlash, Bailey remembersВ the experience fondly. The choice to make Abby not just a villain with a tragic past, but a playable character intentionally forces the audience to rethink the morally dubious actions of the prior protagonists, Joel and Ellie, and shedВ any righteous preconceptions about the cycle of violent retribution. Overall, Bailey considers Abby to be one of the most challenging roles she's ever undertaken, but also the most fulfilling. I didn't like Abby.' You're not supposed to, you know.'

All of these years of work is for nothing.' And Travis is like, 'Just shut up, go back, and keep playing because you are obviously very biased right now.' And as I continued to play, then I was like, 'Oh, okay, I just had to acclimate to myself because I didn't like me. I remember playing for like three hours into 'Day One' as Abby and talking to, Travis, and being like, 'I don't like what I did. 'I knew the story I knew what I was getting into, and when it hit 'Day One' with Abby, I still didn't like Abby,' she says. She described feeling sad and conflicted going into it. In addition to providing the voice and the motion capture, Bailey has also since experienced Abby as a gamer herself. RELATED: Walking Dead Boss Isn't Concerned About Competing With The Last of Us Show 'But the leaks came out a couple months in advance you had months of people forming barriers and forming walls before they were able to understand Abby's side of it, and therefore a lot of people never were able to.' The plot leaks in question were temporarily rumored to have been released by a disgruntled Naughty Dog employee, although this has since been discovered to be untrue. If your first experience with that had been in the game, and then you kept moving forward, you would have had the growth and understanding,' she says. I think the leaks had a lot to do with it.

20 years later, Abby beatsВ Joel to death and the game switchesВ perspectives - first playing as Ellie and then as Abby.Д«ailey attributes a significant amount of the negative reactions to leaks which allowed gamers to solidify their opinions on Abby's narrative before experiencing the gameplay the way the writers intended. AbbyВ had sworn revengeВ against JoelВ after he killed her father, a Firefly surgeon. Joining her old cast-mate and friend from Critical Role, Ashley Johnson (Ellie), Bailey plays Abby who is introduced to players through the eyes of original Last of UsВ protagonists - Joel Miller and Ellie. RELATED: The BEST Reactions From The Game Awards 'I knew that I was going to get some hate. 'I knew that there would be backlash for sure,' Bailey recalled. In an interview with GameInformer, Bailey explained that while she anticipated anВ emotional responseВ to the polarizing character, she is still processing the intensity, which even resulted in BaileyВ receiving death threats on social media. The controversial introduction of Abby is one of several divisive elements of the post-apocalyptic sequel that has drawn severe criticism from gamers who expressed strong, negative feelings about Abby. The Last of Us Part II actor, Laura Bailey, discussed her struggles portraying the tragically complex alternative protagonist, Abigail 'Abby' Anderson, as well as the sometimes hateful reactions to her character from fans of the game.

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