Interview With "The Last Of Us" Costume Designer Ann Foley

The Next Best Picture Podcast

Tv & Film

4.2 • 542 Ratings

🗓️ 30 May 2025

⏱️ 19 minutes

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"The Last Of Us," the Emmy Award-winning drama series from Craig Mazin and Neil Druckmann, partially adapts the 2020 game "The Last Of Us Part II" with dazzling action sequences, immersive production design, and state-of-the-art visual and practical effects. One element that gets sometimes overlooked when talking about the crafts of Naughty Dog's world is the costumes by Ann Foley. Foley was kind enough to spend some time speaking with us about her work on the series, which you can listen to below. Please be sure to check out the show, which is now available to stream in full on HBO Max. Thank you, and enjoy! Check out more on NextBestPicture.com Please subscribe on... Apple Podcasts - https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/negs-best-film-podcast/id1087678387?mt=2 Spotify - https://open.spotify.com/show/7IMIzpYehTqeUa1d9EC4jT YouTube - https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCWA7KiotcWmHiYYy6wJqwOw And be sure to help support us on Patreon for as little as $1 a month at https://www.patreon.com/NextBestPicture and listen to this podcast ad-free Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	You are listening to The Next Best Picture podcast, and this is Daniel Howitt's interview with the costume designer for the last of us, season two, and Foley.
0:09.7	You okay?
0:13.6	Yeah.
0:21.6	This is where we live. What's that?
0:24.6	The fence.
0:26.6	What's inside?
0:28.6	People.
0:30.6	What's outside?
0:33.6	What's outside?
0:56.7	Hi, this is Daniel Howell from Next Best Picture, and thank you so much for talking with me about your work as costume designer for The Last of Us Season 2. It is absolutely one of my favorite shows, so I'm definitely excited to learn more. Well, thanks. Thanks for having me
1:01.4	today. Absolutely. Well, the most obvious change as we're going into Season 2 from the first season is
1:07.7	the time jump, especially for Ellie. You know, many years have passed since the last
1:12.4	season. As you got started on this new season, what were the ways that you were able to showcase
1:17.5	the growth and change in Ellie from season one to season two? I think that was actually one of my
1:25.9	favorite parts of the show this season
1:28.6	is getting to show Ellie's progression from a 14-year-old to a 19-year-old young woman.
1:35.7	And really did that with color palette.
1:39.2	And you can really see it in episode six, the one that we just saw last week, where when she wakes up and she's, it's her 15th birthday, and she's in that like pale yellow striped t-shirt.
1:55.0	So there's more color.
1:56.1	There's more pattern when she's, you know, younger and, you know, in a little bit of probably an emotionally better place
2:04.4	than as a 19-year-old.
2:06.5	And that's when I started introducing a darker palette with Ellie, more blues, not a ton of
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