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Season 1, Episode 5 - "Endure And Survive"

HBO's The Last of Us Podcast

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Casting a Deaf Kid

"I have never been in a circumstance where a kid who has never really acted on film before shows up and is so naturally good at it," he said. Kivon's story wasn't about him being deaf, the biggest factor to his character was that he had leukemia. "The word I think about is enriches. It adds this extra layer to this tale from the game."

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