Nick Offerman gained Finest Supporting Efficiency on the Unbiased Spirit Awards for his function as Invoice on HBO’s The Final of Us, and he used his speech to name out those that criticized the “Lengthy, Lengthy Time” episode and reward HBO for airing the episode.
Offerman mentioned throughout his acceptance speech that he was “astonished” to even be nominated, and he went on to reward HBO for “having the heart” to inform highly effective tales.
“Tales with guts, that when homophobic hate comes my manner and says, ‘Why did it’s a must to make it a homosexual story?’ We are saying, ‘Since you ask questions like that.’ It isn’t a homosexual story. It is a love story, you asshole. So extra of that,” he mentioned (by way of The Hollywood Reporter). You may watch Offerman’s acceptance speech beneath.
Offerman starred as Invoice reverse Murray Bartlett as Frank within the Season 1 episode “Lengthy, Lengthy Time” that chronicled the love story between the 2 characters that blossomed and grew within the apocalypse. Steven Spielberg cherished the episode a lot he wrote to showrunner Craig Mazin to applaud him.
Invoice and Frank appeared in only one episode of The Final of Us by way of a flashback, and the characters usually are not coming again in Season 2. Offerman was not even imagined to be in The Final of Us, because the function of Invoice was initially given to Con O’Neill earlier than he needed to drop out as a consequence of scheduling points.
Season 2 of The Final of Us is now in manufacturing. Season 2 brings again Pedro Pascal as Joel and Bella Ramsey as Ellie, with new solid members coming aboard together with Kaitlyn Dever (Abby), Younger Mazino (Jesse), and Isabela Merced (Dina). The upcoming season debuts in 2025.