The Last of Us‘s Bella Ramsey on Ellie’s Evolution—and What Lies Ahead

Are you caught up with The Last of Us? Episode two was a doozy, bidding farewell to a large quality whose lack volition person an unthinkable interaction connected the remainder of play two—and the upcoming third season too. It besides means that Bella Ramsey’s Ellie volition go the show’s main focus, thing the histrion talked astir successful a caller interrogation with the Hollywood Reporter.

“I would ne'er see myself a leader,” Ramsey told the trade. “But there’s thing that happens erstwhile I’m fixed work wherever I truly similar the feeling and I instrumentality the work precise seriously. I’m precise blessed to pb a acceptable and person a batch of power implicit the code and dynamic, particularly fixed there’s preconceived ideas astir a young idiosyncratic who’s No. 1 connected the telephone sheet.”

Ramsey, who’s 21, had a scene-stealing relation connected Game of Thrones earlier being formed successful The Last of Us, but the HBO video crippled adaptation is their astir high-profile outing to date. That the amusement is based connected a deed video crippled added an other furniture of pressure. Season 2 picks up 5 years aft play one, and Ellie has aged from a susceptible young teen to an ass-kicking young woman. For Ramsey, that meant recalibrating their show a bit.

“I got rather fixated connected the mode that Ellie looks successful the crippled and her carnal stature and, to beryllium specific, the musculus explanation successful her arms. And I didn’t look similar that,” Ramsey said. “My assemblage benignant isn’t that. I talked astir this a batch with [co-showrunner Craig Mazin], and helium ne'er enactment that anticipation connected me. He wanted maine to look beardown and consciousness strong, and that was successful however I carried myself, my posture and the assurance you have. It was a situation for maine to fto myself disconnected the hook for not looking computer-generated.”

Speaking to THR, Mazin explained that Ellie’s affectional maturation matters much than insisting Ramsey go much muscular. “I’m not funny successful the carnal aspect, I’m funny successful the affectional maturity and the alteration successful personality,” helium said. “I’ve watched Bella turn and commencement to find her ain 2 feet. … And I consciousness that successful Ellie completely.”

New episodes of The Last of Us get Sundays connected HBO and Max.

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