The Final of Us’s Bella Ramsey on Ellie...

Are you caught up with The Last of Us? Episode two was a doozy, bidding farewell to a serious character whose absence could have an unimaginable influence on the remainder of season two—and the upcoming third season too. It additionally signifies that Bella Ramsey’s Ellie will change into the present’s major focus, one thing the actor talked about in a brand new interview with the Hollywood Reporter.

“I’d by no means contemplate myself a frontrunner,” Ramsey advised the commerce. “However there’s one thing that occurs after I’m given accountability the place I actually like the sensation and I take the accountability very severely. I’m very completely satisfied to steer a set and have lots of affect over the tone and dynamic, particularly given there’s preconceived concepts about a teen who’s No. 1 on the decision sheet.”

Ramsey, who’s 21, had a scene-stealing position on Recreation of Thrones earlier than being solid in The Final of Us, however the HBO online game adaptation is their most high-profile outing up to now. That the present is predicated on successful 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 lady. For Ramsey, that meant recalibrating their efficiency a bit.

“I received fairly fixated on the best way that Ellie seems within the recreation and her bodily stature and, to be particular, the muscle definition in her arms. And I didn’t seem 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 needed me to look sturdy and really feel sturdy, and that was in how I carried myself, my posture and the boldness you will have. It was a problem for me to let myself off the hook for not wanting computer-generated.”

Talking to THR, Mazin defined that Ellie’s emotional progress issues greater than insisting Ramsey change into extra muscular. “I’m not within the bodily facet, 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 toes. … And I really feel that in Ellie fully.”

New episodes of The Final of Us arrive Sundays on HBO and Max.

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