Are you caught up with The Last of Us? Episode two was a doozy, bidding farewell to a serious character whose absence may have an unimaginable affect on the remainder of season two—and the upcoming third season too. It additionally signifies that Bella Ramsey’s Ellie will develop into the present’s essential focus, one thing the actor talked about in a brand new interview with the Hollywood Reporter.
“I might by no means contemplate myself a frontrunner,” Ramsey advised the commerce. “However there’s one thing that occurs after I’m given duty the place I actually like the sensation and I take the duty very severely. I’m very pleased to steer a set and have quite a lot of affect over the tone and dynamic, particularly given there’s preconceived concepts about a youngster who’s No. 1 on the decision sheet.”
Ramsey, who’s 21, had a scene-stealing function on Recreation of Thrones earlier than being forged in The Final of Us, however the HBO online game adaptation is their most high-profile outing so far. That the present relies on a success online game added an additional layer of stress. Season two picks up 5 years after season one, and Ellie has aged from a susceptible younger teen to an ass-kicking younger girl. For Ramsey, that meant recalibrating their efficiency a bit.
“I bought fairly fixated on the way in which that Ellie seems within the recreation and her bodily stature and, to be particular, the muscle definition in her arms. And I didn’t appear like that,” Ramsey mentioned. “My physique kind isn’t that. I talked about this quite a bit with [co-showrunner Craig Mazin], and he by no means put that expectation on me. He wished me to look robust and really feel robust, and that was in how I carried myself, my posture and the arrogance you’ve got. It was a problem for me to let myself off the hook for not wanting computer-generated.”
Chatting with THR, Mazin defined that Ellie’s emotional progress issues greater than insisting Ramsey develop into extra muscular. “I’m not within the bodily side, I’m within the emotional maturity and the change in character,” he mentioned. “I’ve watched Bella develop and begin to discover her personal two ft. … And I really feel that in Ellie utterly.”
New episodes of The Final of Us arrive Sundays on HBO and Max.
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