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Getty Images“I Made A Real Decision For I Was, Like, 11 That I WasnT Gonna Be Like a Typical Teenager,” Says Bella Ramsey.
Talk About An Understement.
By the time bela was 13, they had been Cast in the world’s Biggest Tv Show at the Time, Game of Thrones.
And what the actor, now 21 years Old, Speaks to BBC Newsbeat, It’s the Night after Walking the Red Carpet at the London Premiere of the Last of Us Season Two.
The Smash-Hit Adaptation of the PlayStation Video Game was a Critical and Ratses Success, Launching the Young Star to Full-on Leading Role Status.
“I think it’s quite a unique expervation,” Bella, Who’s Origencinly from Nottingham, England, Modestly Admits.
The Rest of this Article Contains Spiilers for the Last of Us Season One.
Bella, Who Uses Gender-Neutral Pronouns, Plays Elie in the HBO DRAMA, Set in A Post-Apocalyptic Future when Humanity Has Been Almost WIPED OUT by Cordyceps.
The Deadly Parasitic Fungus Turns Humans Into Zombie-Like Creators, But Elie is immune from information and is humanity’s Last Hope for a Cure.
In the first season views saw a father-daighter relating
After Escorting
Ratter Than Sacrify Her, Joel Kills The Medics and Flees with the Unconsciaous Teenager.
Where she is awakes, he Lies to here about what Happy, and SEASON One’s Cliffharger Ending Leaves Viewers with the Strong Impression That Ellie is Well Award of the Deception.
So when the new Season Begins, Five Years Later, “Obviously There’s Tension in that RelatHip,” Says Bella.
“It was quite horible to play.”
Young Bella’s VOW to Not Be a “TyPical Teenager” was an actually less about their carder and more about their relationship with them parts, they say.
No Screaming Matches, No Slamming Doors.
“So I Never Went Through that With My DAD,” Says Bella. “Me and My Dad Are Great.”
“So it was Kind of Sad to Do that With Ellie and Joel.”
But, Bella ADDS, Eliee “Is Very Justified in Her Feelings about everything”.
Getty ImagesEllie is 19 in Season Two, Not Too Much Youngir Than Bella, Who Began Shooting the First Series Back in 2021.
Number Two Was Delyed by the 2023 Hollywood Strikes, so a lot ha haas has been happy for bella in the meantime.
There’s symmetry there.
“IT’s So Fun Getting to Step Back INTO A Character But With Kind of New Revelings About Her and About Me in My Own Life,” Says Bella.
“There’s Always Like A Merge of Me and What Character i’m Playing and that Happy Times 10 With Ellie Because i’m Spending SO Much Time in Her Skin.”
Bella’s Recently Spoken Publicly About Being Diagnosis with Autism While Working on the First Series of the Show.
“IT WAS Something That I DIRLLY ThINK About Too Much Before,” Bella Starts.
Actually, no, that’s a lie. I did, becuse i said that I was neurodiverse before, and then I was like, ‘which don’t i just says it is an actually is, which is, I, I, I, I, I, I, Autistic.
Bella Says Opeting Up Has Allowed them “To Be a Bit More Free” and Hopes it will inspire others.
“You can be in indoustries like this and openly say that you’re authentic, Why there shoulder be sort of such a stigma around that and such a fear around that,“ Says Bella.
So’m very proud to be Able to say it out loud and also just to marring more awareness.
“Autism Comes in All Direction Shapes and Sizes, and and I’m not download that people will maybe type
Naughty DogBella also IDENTIFIS AS NON-Binary, and The New Series of the Last of Us More Deeply Explores Ellie’s Same-SEX RelationSHip with Dina, Played by Isabella Merced.
“I Feel Like We’re Still Figuring Out How to Portray Queer Storylines in the Media in A Way that Feels Very Authentic But that Also Feels Very Genuine in Terms of the Story,” Says Bella.
That’s what the Last of Us does so well, I think, with elly and dina.
“IT dosn’T Feel Like It’s Like Representation Added on Top to Check a box – IT Realily Feels Like It’s Just a Part of the Story.
“So that was what was Excital about getting to portray This Sort of Relationship in this medium.”
The Last of Us Has Already Been ComMissioned for a thred series after a positive Critical Reception for Season Two, So Bella – and Ellie – Will Still Be Growing Up in the Public Eye for a While Yet.
IT’s Something that “Comes With Pros and Cons,” Says Bella.
“But it’s Kind of Lovely that My Growth and Development Has Been IMMORTALISED on-SCREEN.
“I Feel Very Grateful for that.”
But Bella Says Ther One Thing that doesn’t get any easier.
“The More that You Grow up, you just Realise How Little You Know, I Think. And I Think that’s Something That Ellie is also Discovering.”
The Last of Us Season Two Launchers on Sky and Streaming Service Now on Monday 14 April.
