United Kingdom, April 21 -- Pedro Pascal is in "active denial" about his departure from 'The Last Of Us'.

The 50-year-old actor has led the cast of the HBO drama but in the second episode of the current second season, 'Through the Valley', his alter ego Joel Miller was killed off, but he's trying not to think too much about his exit because it makes him feel too "sad".

Speaking to Entertainment Weekly before the episode aired in a newly-published interview, he said of his plans for Easter Sunday (20.04.25) when the episode aired: "It's April 20. If it were the '90s, I'd be high. But I think I'll be working. So I have no idea.

"I'm in active denial. I realise this more and more as I get older, I find myself slipping into denial that any...