HBO’s “The Last of Us” is filling out its supporting cast for Season 2 with six actors, Variety has learned exclusively. They are Joe Pantoliano, Alanna Ubach (“Euphoria”), Ben Ahlers (“The Gilded Age”), Hettienne Park (“Hannibal”), Robert John Burke (“Law & Order: Special Victims Unit”) and Noah Lamanna (“Star Trek: Strange New Worlds”).

Pantoliano is playing Eugene, a small character from video game “The Last of Us Part II” that will be expanded on the show, similar to the Emmy-winning Bill and Frank stand-alone episode from Season 1. In the game, Ellie (played by Bella Ramsey on the show) and her friend Dina (Isabel Merced on the show), talk about Eugene when they stumble upon the lab he used to grow cannabis. In a recent interview for a Variety feature about the process of adapting “Part II” for the series, creators and executive producers Craig Mazin and Neil Druckmann said that...