Bella Ramsey talks THE LAST OF US (SPOILERS!), season 2, & more! Happy Sad Confused

hey guys thanks as always for checking out the channel remember to hit that subscribe button or else you might miss chats with the stars of I don't know the hottest show on television like Bella Ramsay Bella don't you think that's a good idea I feel like they're doing themselves yeah yeah you're doing yourself a favor like you're gonna say yeah like I mean we're trying we're doing a service to the audience we're trying to help people here yeah exactly that's our only aim is to help is to have been provide exactly uh please enjoy my chat with uh Bella Ramsay star of The Last of Us Bella this is uh really exciting for me this is um this is one of those shows this is like my current Obsession right now um and I hope you're feeling the love out there there's a lot of uh excitement about this series yeah there's been a lot of love which is um and sort of unprecedented which is a word that I haven't heard years since the covid-19 outbreak um so it's sort of way to bring it back but um but yeah it's been a I think we all hope the show would go well and people would like it but we didn't quite anticipate that the reaction would be like this this big and it's good yeah you hope you go in with the best of intentions but as you well know part of it is that a lot of it's out of your control um yeah and as we tape this today uh big news I mean we saw this coming we knew this was going to happen but officially The Last of Us is coming back for season two is it relief excitement when you did you just hear the news today as well or did you get a tip no I heard the news earlier this week um but I'm I'm so happy um yeah I saw anticipated it well I did anticipate any sort of anticipate I didn't anticipate it but it's really nice for me to have it solidified and like just to know now that it feels more real like to know that I'm going out to Canada again and spending time with some of my best friends making the show that I really love in but yeah I'm so excited for it so um before we get to The Last of Us I when I started to do my uh copious research on you I was like okay I wonder if she's done podcasts and I did a podcast search and here's I came up with not only I didn't really come up with you on podcasts but I did come up with the fact that you were kind of sort of hosting a podcast that never happened what was oh no what was not Bella Ramsey there is a trailer fella for a podcast at the end of 2019 and no evidence of it actually ever happening not Bella Ramsey was a bad idea that I had when I was I think it was during I don't know I don't know when this was it was like I will tell you November 9th 2019 there is a trailer and in the the irony of the description is I think you say even in the trailer this is a podcast dedicated to people like me who are indecisive so is this the ultimate indecisive podcast that you weren't able to follow through on like you lived up to the the title well I've tried to get that taken down I don't know how to do it yeah I am this was just a bad idea that I had I was like oh I could make a podcast and just talk about random things so I made that I was I've been waiting for the moment where someone would like find it and ask me about it you've done it you know you're the guy yeah um not Bella yeah not better Ramsay I was just because I I'm not a pod I'm not really a listener a consumer of podcast particularly um and so I thought I'd and that's mostly because like I go on the podcast like charts I'm like I have no idea what I want to watch too what I want to listen to so I was like uh let me make one for people like me who don't know what they want to listen to I don't know it was a terrible idea and I never did anything other than the trailer and and yeah that's amazing I watched this shoot at the charts now yeah exactly this only the trailer just leave it there and make it mysterious I did I did hear like a stat there's some kind of crazy stat out there where like 90 you're not alone like 90 of podcasts like never go past like episode three like every like a lot of people are like yeah I'm gonna try it out and then we're like oh this is more work like why am I doing no I'm good okay good yeah well I'm pleased to be part of that statistic you're stuck with acting thankfully thankfully we're all of us um yeah talk to me a little bit about like what it's been like the last few weeks so as we tape this um by the time people watch or listen to this uh the first three episodes will have been out um and so far people are really receiving it very well and they're interacting with it it's kind of become appointment television streaming whatever we call it nowadays um like are you actively engaging with the reception like how are you kind of receiving it right now I have an oath with Craig Mason the writer showrunner of the show uh that week and oath to to not look at comments um because it's very easy like although majority of the reaction is great but even like the the great stuff it can be it could become quite a warming one just it's just like a lot of attention yeah um but also um you can there's still there's always going to be negative stuff like that and it's easy to fall down that rabbit hole it's just better we just like have a happier time when we're just not spending all day like on Reddit posts and like falling down those rabbit holes and stuff so so yeah we haven't we have an oath not to really look at too much sometimes we give each other like exceptions and that's going quite well I think it's a SmartPhone yeah yeah I think so too we did just have to revise the oath the other day because we both sort of fell down so we now have the video number two fresh Edition oh I like how it's not like a like a simple promise or whatever like oh we talk to each other about it it's an oath it sounds like it was like done in secret done in the dark with candles lit like what happened yeah do you wanna actually know how it happened we were uh we just actually yes okay so we just flown to into La we'd had like a 16 hour travel day or something from London this was in this is on the 30th of December and it was in the car on the way to like um on the way to where we were staying and I was like uh like jet lagged exhausted and um and the oath was born out of exhaustion and you know I think it I think it really serves us both I I think it is wise because yeah I mean look even in in The Limited experience I've had with that kind of thing you you read the comments and you're like oh there are 10 great comments in a row and you just you're stupid enough to keep going until you find the one crappy one and then that ruins your day so it's not worth the psychic energy yeah you're like oh this is fine it's just one bad comment but then like you'll think about it all day yeah um all right so let's talk a little bit about how this this one came about because I believe you were cast in this about two years ago and it's a long production um what was the audition process like because we're back into like look obviously we're still living with covet but two years ago that was even more intense coveted times did you ever like get in an actual room with Craig or was it all Zoom what happened it was all zoomed so I had it they sent a self tape over um so I just did a couple of scenes from that from the first episode but the Marlene scene and the one in Joe's Apartment um and I said eighties eight T's means trouble because like my American accent was a bit dodgy um but they could see that to see past that frankly and um after that I just got in a zoom with Craig and Neil and um uh our Caster director and from there like got a I've got a call then from my agent a few weeks later being like it's it's happening and then and then got on Zoom again um with Craig and Neil and the Gang to sort of talk about it it was very exciting and very surreal so I I read something that Neil said Neil said quote we were looking for a specific combination of contradictions someone that could be funny and quirky and violent and rough so so does that is that uh dovetail with your skill set would you say you have all those on in your toolkit I mean apparently so and I think um I mean the contradiction thing is is cool because the amount of times I've thought in my life and I think I'm Frank maybe said this like I'm a bundle of contradictions or something and I I felt like that so often so it was it's it's cool to play somebody um like that yeah she's at one point she's like that she's the smartest adult in the room and then she's like a terrified little kid and I think that contrast is really cool to play um yeah I I mean I I I relate to all of the things apart from violent but you know I think I maybe have some like deep embedded violence that can come out in safe spaces like on set okay okay well how's that manifest is there a specific example you want to cite like pounding on Craft service if they don't have what you want like what happens okay yeah let's leave it mysterious yeah okay okay yeah I mean who doesn't I mean I've visited a few sets it's like I it's a miracle that yeah I I that I don't gain 100 pounds every time I visit yeah yeah it's usually done all of this is for me what um so so Craig has famously said that uh he asked you and Pedro not to play the game oh yeah to believe in all these months leading up to it the months of production there's not late one night you're in your hotel room and you're like you know what he'll never know I gotta just try it it would be I it never happened you haven't played the game still I actually started playing it like two weeks ago right but I had um I had watched some of the gameplay like even before he they asked me what to play it like before the audition and stuff I watched some of the gameplay so I was aware of it and familiar with it but I'd never actually sat down and like been Jordan and Ellie um so what's the sensation been like recently playing it is it surreal are you how do you relate to playing your own character it's um I've not got to the bit where any country I haven't really done it for like a week but um it's uh it's actually it's actually not as weird as I thought it'd be and I have it on like the easiest mode so I it's fine but I do find myself like I I think I need to just get on with it because I like in a room and I look at all the details I'm like oh there might be something irrelevant here and I'm just like wandering around and then I end up getting lost because I'd forgotten where like the entrance and the exits are because I've like got so confused walking around in circles looking at all the details of the room and yeah I think I just need to like go forwards and get to the point well it is this interesting thing and look it's you obviously a lot of folks came to know you through Game of Thrones and the thing one of the things that that is a comparable in these both of these circumstances is that the fan base will know in some ways this world better than the actors at least at the start which is a strange place to be where like you encounter fans that like know every single thing about these games and you're like you're working all the scripts you're working with the material so is that a I don't know is it an odd thing to know like you you must feel ownership over the character but they also feel a different kind of ownership right and I totally get that with like the the Orange phone and but although I think I like I prefer the um perspective of like nobody like owns anybody it's just like Ellie is a character that has been like um I I have like hugged in my in my brain maybe like embrace it's been like Ellie's been embraced by a lot of people like embraced by Ashley Johnson and then people have embraced Ashley Johnson's like iconic version of Ellie and then now thankfully people like are embracing my version of Ali as well as like their own personal relationships Ellie like I just feel like it's it's more of like a a collective Embrace yeah I think it's a nice way of of looking at it and I think it's it's it takes away any sort of toxicity that comes with like feeling like a character is yours and like yeah like you have they are yours in that you have the you have an individual relationship with that character that is different from everybody else but like it's the same character you're just all experiencing uh and then like a different way and I think that's that's like a beautiful thing I think for everyone to be able to like have their own personal experience yeah I wonder if like centuries ago there were like the Die Hard Shakespeare fans that were like no this is my Hamlet you shouldn't be doing it that way I had the sandwich in my brain it was this one probably if Reddit had existed back in the days of Shakespeare oh my gosh yeah I I was going to say to make Shakespeare but I I'm not adequate enough the term Shakespeare though should be a hashtag um this show is sponsored by betterhelp I 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therapy can get you there visit betterhelp.com HSC today to get 10 off your first month that's better help hclp.com HSC let's talk about Pedro the most Charming annoyingly sweet man on the planet yes this is a beautiful love affair that you guys have I saw you do a lot of press together and why wouldn't you it's a fun fun group um did you guys how is the relationship evolved you had a lot of time with him how is it day one versus where you are was there a time that it took to kind of like key into each other's Vibe or what yeah I mean when I think of day one and I think of now like I am it's a total difference um in a really nice way like at the beginning we were so shy of each other and um so no I think we're just so nervous of like we knew that we had to spend the a year together and possibly more for like further seasons and there was so much riding on like our relationship and our chemistry that I think we would just I was certainly like just nervous like I just wanted us to be friends and I was so concerned with like being like I don't know not being annoying that um that I think it it took a while for us both to like get into just get into the like I don't know just be ourselves around each other and I think at the minute that we did that and just let go of any sort of the sort of pressure and expectations that we had of ourselves and each and each other in terms of how we relate to each other like it just our relationship flourished and like we're um we're incredibly comfortable now but the thing that I had immediately with him was like a feeling of safety like I knew that I was gonna be okay and that we were going to be okay um because he yeah it just an immediate safety and familiarity and um yeah we instantly got along I think it just it took the time sort of like Ellie and Joe um to just to really like relate to each other I guess in a way in a way that is yeah that you said it is a love affair do you relate to each other on a pop culture level because Pedro like myself is a very old man um do who has taught more about pop culture have you taught Pedro more about contemporary pop culture has he taught you more about what the 90s were like he's and he's been trying to educate me on like TV and movies that he lives and I've not been a very good student I have to say I just sort of like no and say that I'll watch all these things that he wants me to watch and then I just forget and never get around to it but um I have some things which I definitely watch like we're gonna watch Thelma Louise at some point together which will be fun um but I've taught I don't I don't know why what I've taught him to be honest I don't really know what it's taught him to be honest like Horrid Henry maybe I introduced him to that which was I don't know whether you know about Horrid Henry I don't oh my gosh I grew up on that show and continue to like I had a whole phase shooting The Last of Us where I remembered about it and then like watched it religiously for a week or so what's the what's the thumbnail description what's the elevator pitch on uh oh it's it's um well this Horrid Henry he has a brother called Perfect Peter who and their enemies and I don't know he just like gets into trouble and doesn't like brushing his teeth then going to school and I wanted to be Horrid Henry when I was a kid and um that's that he has a gerbil Mouse thing I don't know it was it's just the greatest if you you have to you have to watch it and listen to this to the theme tune because the theme tune is a real Banger what would you like to uh recite it for me would you like to give me a little taste I'm I'm afraid I won't do it justice fair enough okay second podcast we'll we'll get you on board for that one who do you okay so so Pedro obviously has cornered the market on protecting uh beloved characters who do you think he loves more you or grogu oh that's a difficult one yeah I think oh goodness is it bad that I haven't seen the Mandalorian no I mean it's a little surprising but it's okay you're busy I think it's bad I I mean so I from from an uneducated point of view I'm completely ignorant to his relationship with Kroger I know it's special and I know that you know he he likes to see his baby grow and flourish and be become more famous than him as I really have seen too many of his interviews but um I think I will see you see how I'm like dodging around this question because I'm I think you're just making stuff up because you don't want to say the wrong thing you should embrace yourself embrace the character he he loves Ellie and you more of course I think he does I think he does because well I can't really I mean oh watch out at the end of the season you really see like the love between Ali and Joe grow and I think I think he yeah I think he loves me more than that's how you say it right you got that way right at least yeah you got the pronunciation yeah good baby Yoda baby Yoda grogu why why is that your name because technically it's not baby Yoda Yoda is its own character I mean if you really want to spend the next half hour for me describing Star Wars to you I can but I don't think we want to do that okay okay I'll just watch it after after this fair enough fair enough I've got to watch Horrible Harry Henry because that was close Horrible Harry is the knockoff it's a different thing entirely yeah exactly Okay so I have watched the first four episodes I'm not gonna talk about episode four because people haven't had a chance to see it but by the time people listen and watch this episode three is out Bella episode 3 is an all-time episode of Television not just this show it's I've watched it twice and I don't have time to watch anything twice I'm obsessed with it um have you have you watched the finished product I mean this is a special one I haven't I'm watching it as it comes out um I'm terrified for the feelings I'm going to feel because I've heard phenomenal things and I've seen clips and oh my goodness I think I'm gonna be broken and I've read this like I know what happens and I still think I'm gonna be broken um but yeah I'm watching as it comes out so so let's see yeah I mean so so for those that do or don't know part of this episode depicts this it's almost a little bit of a bottle episode as they call it in some respects where it depicts this beautiful heartbreaking relationship played by Nick Offerman and Marie Bartlett two great actors and look I mean I think it's going to be a special episode for many reasons and we've seen many great depictions obviously of lgbtq relationships and TV it's not it's not like the novelty of that but I think it still should be acknowledged that that aspect of it being depicted in such a humanistic heartbreaking way is a is an important thing to acknowledge I mean wouldn't you say that normalizing that in the context of a show like this I totally agree like why shouldn't why shouldn't we hone in on on that relationship in a post like apocalyptic world like it's not like all the gay people got blown up and it doesn't exist anymore you know what I mean like so I think it's I think it's really important and and and but I just like the fact that like from reading the script obviously I've not seen it yet but it it's a it's it's it's a relationship and it happens to be between two men and and that love story is is so beautiful and heartbreaking and um I mean it's so important I think yeah like you said just like normalizing um gay relationships lgbtq plus relationships um in with with all the various backdrops like be it the apocalypse be it like 2023. it I don't know I I think it's I think it's just really really nice that people can and important that people can feel represented and and the hope is that it is it impacts um people who aren't in the community just as much as it impacts right people who are is Ellie's queerness important to you like as an aspect of that character I mean it is thus far it's referenced without not being overt yet I don't know if it becomes more into the four as the season progresses or not um yeah I mean you you will see there's an episode um which focuses a lot on on Ellie and and Riley her her best friend and and more than that and uh yeah her any screen is it's important like she's it's it was something that I really loved about from the beginning and and I loved the way that it was woven into this story again without it being a big deal and like it's not talk to it's not really talked about it just exists and that's that's why I really love about it the most yeah it's a super important aspect I feel I I'm just so happy it's um I got to play heroinette because I know she means so much to like so many people and so it's it's an honor for me to my body that well and also the reverberations of something like that aren't just like in the tomorrow it's it's for it honestly it is like the more these kinds of roles and normalizing these relationships happen in every facet of entertainment the more audiences see themselves the more it will just for decades to come the ripple effect is is is import is important I think to think about yeah it's so exciting that that is the case like yeah it it's it's so exciting I can't wait for people to to see that episode and to obviously that the episode 3 has come out by the time people listen to this listen yeah I'm I'm so happy about it and like why why shouldn't um queerness and and gay relationships exists within a show like this yeah I I just think it's so it's super cool and like a a great thing that um Craig and Neil have been so so invested in it and and into the idea and I think yeah I'm really happy with with that talk to me a little bit about um Ashley Ashley Johnson who um of course played this character in the game and who is going to be seen in the series in a role that I don't believe has been depicted in the game as Ellie's mother um what was the collaboration like what was it like to pick her brain or not or just compare notes and and to also just share the scenes with her well it was um yeah I remember I walked into the production office and I saw her like picture taped up on the wall being out of his mum I was like oh this is interesting because I hadn't I haven't been told until I saw it out there and I said to Craig and he was like yeah supposed to know that yet um yeah it was surreal actually seeing meeting Ashley for the first time we we haven't really talked about Ellie much we just sort of have this real strong mutual appreciation and love for each other um like every time we meet it's like I I love your work so much and we just sort of end up spewing compliments at each other and um yeah she's awesome I again I haven't seen the episode that she's in but I I am I've seen again clips and she's phenomenal like she's gonna blow people's minds I mean one of the exciting aspects of getting to do this over two seasons perhaps more Craig has said that potentially the second game is more than one season in his brain um but I I would imagine one of the exciting and intimidating prospects is to go off and do your own thing and to you know add characters add Back stories expand the universe a bit is that is that something like are there now that you have this investment in this character are there aspects of Ellie you want to explore that weren't explored in the game I mean I don't know really I've not really thought about that um I guess it's down to to Craig and Neil as to like what bits they they really pull from the story I'm really excited to be honest for the Ellie Dina story like I've watched a cut together someone's made like a phenomenal I don't know how they do it like an amazing edit of just like the gameplay like Ellie and Dina's love story so I'm excited to play that out um um and also like the the complexity of her relationship with Joel and how that gets decidedly like more complex and I'm looking forward to that and just yeah like the I think the violence that ensues is um thrilling in a way to to get to to maybe explore that in a like I said like a really safe environment it will be will be cool but I am nervous about it too like I'm nervous about um because I know what happens in the second game and I'm nervous about being potentially without Pedro for a while right it's gonna be really sad right you want will though presumably be playing closer to your age at least you don't have to be 14 in the in yeah although people still think I'm 14. like I got we were in a restaurant the other day and and someone didn't believe they thought that I was genuinely 14 which is great because I'm meant to be like that for Elliot and it doesn't bother me at all but yeah I'll be 20 probably by the time we shoot that and I'll be playing 19 yeah so um so yeah I will be closer to my age but yeah I didn't actually really think about that is is it is it true um you've been working on getting your driver's license or do you have a license by now well I failed my first test because I pulled out a roundabout when I wasn't supposed to I was sitting there for like five minutes I was like I need to go if I just got yeah anyway and I pulled out and then she's the examiner stand on the bridge we'll try this again in a few months exactly I actually have got a test again next week so we'll see please do just so you know again to make you feel better I'm a 46 year old man that still does not have a driver's license I never got a license so you have 26 years to beat me yeah thanks I've had the roundabout stress it sounds horrible horrendous I have to ask you a little bit about Game of Thrones you were cast in that one I believe when you were 11 which is an interesting circumstance because most 11 year olds are not watching Game of Thrones you must have been aware of it but not consuming it did that put you in a weird spot at the time or no uh yeah I guess so I actually hadn't heard of it um but I yeah I was 11 so it totally just wasn't in my world um yeah it's weird to me now because I I didn't feel that young at the time and you never do like you feel super like wise and mature right but now I see 11 year olds now and I'm like wow I was really small um yes I wasn't really something I was aware of I soon found out about it my older sister um she's considerably older than me and she I'd watched it with her friends and was was sort of educated us on what it was yeah did you so did you read the books eventually at any point did you have any interest or did you just go off scripts and leave it at that the books are far too big no it's definitely not I'm noticing a consistency she doesn't play the video games she doesn't read the books are you even reading the scripts Bella what work are you actually doing here I'm reading the scripts two times over um to make up for the fact that I I yeah yeah exactly um I'm gonna get ripped apart for this um the thing is right let me try and just let me try and redeem myself okay make your case I've not even read the fourth Harry Potter book Goblet of Fire because that's it's because because it's very big I'm like I I don't have the the uh patience I guess for it I don't know uh I just got into graphic novels which are like way easier to like process anyway uh yeah so I haven't read again maybe I will at some point I also haven't really watched all of the show yet so I need I've got so many things that I need to do and not enough time watch them on the ways of Pedro um read off Game of Thrones watch the Mandalorian play The Last of Us Part One and Two you've got a long list of to-do's um one of the odd things about and I came into Game of Thrones remarkably late myself like I I came in the last season I was like I just got to watch this thing everybody's talking about it and I just like binged it and became obsessed at the end but like I quickly became up to speed on all the clinical controversies around the show it was a show that as beloved as it was for some reason seemed to always attract something whether it was the ending they're too dark the faithfulness to the books is Khaleesi a positive spin on it just seemed like a lot were you again kind of like did you feel removed from it did you feel silly to you how is that kind of colored your perspective on pop culture and work going forward going through that Madness I felt sort of completely well I felt completely removed from it because I I was really not in it very much um so I didn't the attention uh that that had like on me was very um like isolated right and like so it was and like contained um I think I wasn't really talked about in when it came to like the show as a whole and and the specifics of it I think the one controversy that I was slightly a part of was the coffee cup thing in those scenes um who was the who was the final culprit on that one who who was a kid no idea not a clue okay I still I lost track it's a mystery still to be uncovered yeah yeah we will never know to be honest they should they shouldn't fingerprint test I mean I guess it was long gone by then but yeah right right one of the great mysteries of life so one of the also curious things look what we're talking to you now and you are uh 19 gonna be 20. you've been acting since you were like three or something insane like that um and there is this interesting like kind of transition for young actors kids into adults where like when you're a kid acting it's a different thing wouldn't you agree where it's like you're kind of like there is performance of course and there's craft but a lot of the early stuff is is almost being there and being present and just kind of having a natural Charisma and charm and whatever you bring to the table and it becomes less about that I would think as you get older and more about calling upon different skills I mean am I am I off there does it feel like you're like you have to kind of like develop new skills as you get older and kind of transition from being a kid to an adult actor so I think actually the the best adult actors are are the ones that act in in the way that kids do which like off instincts well I guess I don't know but I think even like for some uh like child actors I hate that phrase and I hated that when that was like put on me but um I think it yeah I think really like the less that you can think about it and like the less conscious it is like the better no that makes sense it's almost like stripping away all the the artifice and all the stuff to get back to the kids stuff like what you're saying makes total sense yes yeah exactly it's like like a child like innocence around around it and like a child like curiosity and it I think it that's what really um makes it believable I guess you just have to it's not like I guess just believing and finding the truth in what you're saying and who you're being and um yeah I think like for me it's very much still like an unconscious process and that's terrifying also because I don't know what I do so I'm terrified that one day I'm just just gonna you know the magic power is going to go away what happened yeah exactly but I mean we'll see but yeah I think for as long as you can hold on to just like following your instincts about something um if your instincts are uh often correctly the better because then I think you can always tell when someone's overthinking it or or trying to be a certain way rather than just like being I don't know it all sounds so like no like mystical and whatever but I get it yeah yeah in the years that you've been acting which is almost your entire life like has it been a consistent thing where you're like you've been certain this was the path like have there been moments or years where you're like this is fun but I should probably think about doing something something else I mean I I only professionally started when I was 11. um but I've been doing yeah like amateur theater groups growing up since I was three or four years old just because it was fun and I right my oldest sister did it and I I thought she was really cool and still do by the way so I um so yeah I just I just like did it because I loved it I never thought about it as a career uh but yeah I guess since I was 11 on like from then onwards I I think because I didn't know that I wanted to be an actor when it happened it was such a happy accident and suddenly I I felt like things slotted like I I into place like I found what I was meant to be doing by accident sort of so it was a really surreal sort of experience and I and I wouldn't trade it there's not been a moment where I've wanted to do anything else other than like in the industry even if even if like I do lose the ability to act one day like I will start answer I will be a runner and then I'll be like a third ID like I will be on set as even like a PA I it's just it's a um it's just one they're just wonderful places and I I feel so at home on on a set and I think I would as um just being there so yeah just like that that collegial atmosphere of the collaboration the kind of everyone for a common good a common cause trying to push a boulder up a hill kind of a thing yeah exactly and the relationships that are formed out of that and are so unique and most of the time you never talk to the people again that you've spent like a year with because you all get busy and then like you meet a few years later and it's it's like meeting an old friend that you've known like all your life it's the coolest thing and it doesn't yeah I've not found that anywhere else in my life so it's really cool and outside of like you know earlier on we were talking about the oath and kind of not reading the message boards and all that kind of thing like it's such a weird industry where it's like it's all based it's it seems at the times on judgment and and judgment for on anyone is tough let alone children young adults how do you preserve yourself how have you what are the coping mechanisms outside of not reading the message boards that you've found work for you um great question um I mean in terms of how far the Judgment sort of goes I've not I've not experienced much of that I've been fairly sort of uh sheltered from that just because I've been in I've I guess yeah Elias is the first time that that's happened on a bigger scale right um but I think I just I don't know like I'm as I live in like my little village with people that I've known like adults that I've known my whole life and um I'm still like I think in a way like my um childhood like I'm coming to a lot of things later than like a lot of people my age feel in a way a lot older than me but in certain ways I feel a lot older than them so that's sort of a weird balance Sing Act and I feel like I'm just experiencing outside of like acting and stuff I just sort of get to experience the normal scenes that like a 19 year old experiences maybe um just like I don't know in a different sort of way but silver I don't I don't just I've just changed I don't even know what I'm saying but no don't make sense oh look she hasn't gone Hollywood you're not living in Beverly Hills uh rolling up in your Rolls Royce you're you're living a real life an authentic life yeah exactly I still I I live in the same house I've always did in like I'm not I've only changed in in ways that like like you naturally are meant to change from like when you're 11 until you're 19. right um so I and I just like play football locally with like my friends in it it's like nothing really has has changed apart from the fact that now every time I go out I get recognized by at least one person like that's sort of the change but that because that's manageable you just right have a nice selfie with somebody and then and then it sort of it's done so I think you can you can dip into LA or New York when you do the Press you get to go to a big fancy awards show enjoy that silliness for what it's worth as long as it's the perspective that really keeps us grounded insane and it seems like so far so good I really appreciate the time though I you look I good luck on a lot of things good luck on watching and reading a thousand books apparently uh passing the driver's test um you got a long to-do list and now we have to add season two of The Last of Us I'm sorry but you got some work to do I'm really excited about that that doesn't even feel like work excellent um thanks for the time today it's been a real pleasure thank you thank you for chatting with me

Channel: Josh Horowitz

Views: 188,419

Keywords: josh horowitz, happy sad confused, interview, bella ramsey, the last of us, game of thrones, bella ramsey interview, bella ramsey pedro pascal, pedro pascal

Id: Q6CmLgAwiKo

Length: 40min 48sec (2448 seconds)

Published: Thu Feb 02 2023

Reddit Comments

[u/Mr_Whispers]

Wow, great interview! She confirmed that she is playing older Ellie. I was unsure if they were going to have two actresses, Bella for flashbacks and someone else for older Ellie.

It's also interesting that she only had to audition for the scenes from the first episode. I would have guessed that they had tested her on the more difficult sections of the story.

[u/khellstrom]

Such a great kid!