Melanie Lynskey recently took to Twitter to express some thoughts she has on getting cast in “The Last of Us” and the nature of her character, Kathleen. “Other than getting to work with creative geniuses who I respect and admire [co-creators Craig Mazin and Neil Druckmann] the thing that excited me most about doing [‘The Last of Us’] is that my casting suggested the possibility of a future in which people start listening to the person with the best ideas,” Lynskey explained.
The actress went on to specify that Kathleen represents the person who can organize and plan, who can make decisions, and who generally knows what to do — even if she’s not the strongest or the coolest. Lynskey then brought up the fact that women in power are often held to impossible standards and are constantly criticized — either they’re too angry or not angry enough, either their voice is too shrill or it’s too quiet, and so on. She added what she wanted to establish with her portrayal of Kathleen and how she played into the expectations of women in power positions.
Lynskey continued, “I was excited at the idea of playing a woman who had, in a desperate and tragic time, jumped into a role she had never planned on having and nobody else had planned on her having, and then she actually got s*** done … I wanted her to look like she should have a notepad on her at all times. I wanted her to be feminine, and soft-voiced, and all the things that we’ve been told are ‘weak.’ Because honestly, f*** that.”
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