Dallas Young Actors Studio

Congrats to Kaitlyn Dever on her newest TV series! DYAS alumni actor🤩❤️⭐️.

Kaitlyn Dever started filming Abby and Joel's "Last of Us" twist three days after her mom's funeral.

"To be as honest as possible, I will just say that my days leading up to this scene were horrible. I lost my mom two or three weeks before I actually shot this scene. My mom’s funeral was three days before I did my first day. So I was sort of in a fog. I was in a daze.”

“The Last of Us” creative team changed the shooting schedule so the scene would start filming with coverage shots that did not require Dever. She was then allowed to pick the day she wanted to film her on-camera moments.

“We said, ‘Take your time. Take all the time you need,'” series co-creator Craig Mazin told EW. “While I care extraordinarily about the show, it’s a TV show. I’m not going to disrupt someone’s grieving process for their own parent, especially [with] a show that’s partly about the grieving process.”

Read more here: https://variety.com/2025/tv/news/kaitlyn-dever-last-of-us-joel-death-scene-abby-1236373833/

The stars from drama short “Hidden Truth”!

On set for Student Productions 🎥🌟