The Last Of Us: Bella Ramsey on TOUGHEST Episode, Memes and Season 2

The Last of Us was like the best year of my life and it's not going to be the same so I just have to like go into it being like this is season two and I loved season one but this is just gonna be different okay fella Ramsay is with us right now yes Bella Ellie herself Bella thank you so much for joining us today well of course thank you for having me and I my cat is joining uh you can't see him because it's quite dark but he's gonna be a part of this because he is incredibly old incredibly needy coming off the heels of last week which was like the DLC what did you learn about Ellie from that backstory from that DLC and seeing her relationship with Riley I just love there's this moment where Riley gets out the five dollar bill and Ellie's like kind of says like oh have you done this with anybody else before essentially and I was like that is me that was me as a teenager yeah I mean that's that's really funny that you say that um yeah I mean I think that episode was really just about like what it was like for Ellie before like she I mean like the experience at the end like the first time she's experienced loss at the end of that episode and then like obviously that continues and continues and continues like once she begins this journey but yeah this this took place I think they say like three weeks before Ellie first meets Joe so I think it's just really cool to have that backstory and like um to see what Ellie was like before all of this and before she knew she was immune and like just existing and having a crush on her best friend and like how that plays out I just think it's cool and it ties in really well to uh relationship with Joel to make the point that they're at I love that HBO Max tweeted the best friend stare with like you guys looking at each other and I was like okay best friends friends history will say they're a roommates yes I that episode last week on the on on our show we were talking about you know we have we all have our imagination of what happened after the Riley and Ellie story ended in the show and in the game and at the same point they had the choices and then it doesn't really tell us what happens next what do you think as some you know the person who is embodying Ellie you are Ellie what do you think happened uh do you do how do you think about that yeah I did think about that quite a lot um because it also was gonna inform like how uh Ellie is going forwards I don't know like depending on the level of trauma like it's gonna be it's gonna be different but there was conversations that happened around that actually and um I think we sort of agreed um I don't know what to say because it's like I think it's up to people's imaginations really but from our point of view I think Ellie probably had to make a really hard decision and do something I really didn't want to do and experience great loss make that links back to that scene in an episode or possibly uh I lose track of the episodes um where she's like it wasn't my first time oh yeah same somebody and yeah like that this time of Ben Riley possibly that's what I was thinking and then the whole survivor's Guild of her probably just going through this whole thing and being like why am I not turning what is going on like I just and even like being kept in the dark with it makes it so much more I don't know if we ever did like explicitly agree and I think it's it's it's more powerful that it's kept like unspoken and kept to people's imaginations because I think the imagination can often be like darker than reality yeah geez sorry anyone else shows up I put one right between my eyes that's right this is the part of the game where it's the first time we play as Ellie because Joel got impaled so this like so this week and last week you're kind of like you're you're in this show without Pedro like it's it's this is Ellie kind of on your own how was it did it change does the set change does the experience the expectation the day change when it when there is no jolt around how does that change the energy for you it completely changes it like suddenly I was my whole National experience has been so tired to Pedro so to like then find like how to like I don't know how to function on set without him was weird um I had withdrawal symptoms from being around him all the time and his stupid jokes and playing Xanadu um on his phone endlessly um so it was uh yeah it was a weird change and I missed him I really really missed him um which I think actually worked like for them to the episode and it was just it made me also appreciate it even more when he was back I'm like oh yeah I've missed you Pedro wasn't there but the original Joel Miller Troy Baker was I'm curious what that experience like was like for you I think me and Troy had this immediate respect for each other because I had seen bits of the game um and he was obviously coming onto the show and it was um it was actually really it was a really special experience meeting him for the first time and being like it's like that Spider-Man meme where it's like yeah it felt like that um uh but I didn't I didn't really know how much we talked about the uh like I think he he was basically encouraging me that I was it was Ellie you know and um I was like equally as um and in awe of his a job and I think we just like wandered over that a little bit we didn't talk about it a lot we didn't pick each other's brains we just sort of like I think it is a new thing he was singing your Praises when we interviewed him we have a little a little message from Troy who who has who wants to share his thoughts on how things went down in this episode I'm terrified taught me in the neck dude in the neck in the neck and that scene was a lot longer so my next question is to Craig we'll talk about it he got and how many times they had to reset the blood bag and all that stuff but so how many times did you have to kill the original Joe Miller on set quite a lot of tires I just remember him walking around it's like acting his neck all day and also me being so uh like desensitized to like all of this and just being like Oh Troy hasn't actually his neck like it didn't it's a problem of like growing up in this industry you really become desensitized to things like that um that was a long day it just kept going and going and going and going and I think Troy was even there like they had to do a little insert shot I think of him after yeah I killed I killed original Joel quite a few times but he was like he was on the he was like gonna murder me and like eat me so I think it's fine I think it was justified I think it was justified do you think that like how does this kind of change Ellie and then if if at all now that because that that reunion maybe Joel expected more of an Embrace and it comes but it's it's at this horrific moment and what do you think this kind of like what happens now oh that's a big question uh yeah I mean it's definitely a like she's experienced traumas before but like this is like nothing that she's ever experienced I don't think she ever insisted like of all the things that could have gone wrong in this world like all the time she could have died up until now like she did not anticipate this um I think she is she she is also scared not only of like what happened with with David and what was what he was going to do to her but she's also I think maybe more afraid of what she did to him and that violence that lives within her I don't think that she's we see how it actually punched Bethany in the face in the last episode and like we've seen her be violent but not like this like this is uh and I think that's that guess her like what she's capable of she killed David probably within like the first two hacks of the ax to his face and she just kept going and kept going and kept going and it felt good um in the same way that like Joel was beating that guy to death it was like he didn't have to do that um it sort of yeah I don't know it's a lot what has been your favorite reactions to the show so far I'm very well I have like it's like a a gay army you were like super on Twitter who are just like supporting me and Ellie and it's like there so much louder than any people who still hate it or hate the show like the homophobic trolls whatever and it's just like that feels nice to just have like um that Army but I mean that's been a reaction that I've really enjoyed um and also just people being like uh I like I love um Gamer's reactions to the show like that's the thing that feels the most validating is when like Gamers beloved uh uh Gamers who are so invested in the game to then say like this is so good and it lives up all my expectations and exceeds them like that's the thing that's the reaction that feels like really really cool have you seen it's like the meme it's it's Joel and Ali in the game and Joel's wearing a shirt this is I love my lesbian daughter oh yeah oh and actually you know to answer your question better like it's all the memes that have come out of it oh the meme reactions that people are doing like there was one the other day that I loved um after the episode seven where it's like Ellie game Ellie has her hands in her head and she's like I'm so gay um and I I just love them I love people like rehashing game the game memes to like react to the show and as a takeaway from the fun of being a fan uh but I do I do have to ask you about this episode this show specifically you talk about the reactions to it has any any of the episodes stood out to you as like memorably challenging emotionally to get through what has been the toughest one for you to like look at and be like wow Ellie's got to go through this I have to perform this episode 8 for sure this one no question yeah yeah this one um it's just the most intense like it's Ellie surviving without Joel and surviving before Joel and enduring so much pain beforehand um yeah and and it was cold like it was emotionally and physically this was like the toughest episode uh for sure but I loved it like I had a great time um but yeah it was I remember reading the script and I actually have videos of me reading the script for the first time because I was so it's a sort of funny story I was really concerned that my American accent wasn't American anymore because I'd like got so used to it so it's like I'm gonna record myself reading this episode out loud so that I can listen back and see if I sound American and then it just turned into me like life reacting to them the the crazy that I was reading and uh I have them somewhere I I dread I don't think I've never watch them back but I remember the first time I realized reading the script that like these guys were cannibals I was like what it was yeah I want to see those yeah if you don't want to watch them we will [Laughter] maybe one day you guys are all wrapped up on season one and season two renewal we're all so excited to hear about are you like how did how do you get ready to go back to work and do this again are you what how are you feeling about that I'm really excited uh it it still feels surreal to me that it's gonna go again um but also I'm going into it with the ex like I don't want to go into it comparing it to the uh experience the first season because I'm like that that's never gonna like season one is The Last of Us was like the best year of my life and it's not gonna be the same so I just have to like go into it being like this is season two and I loved season one but this is just gonna be different foreign

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Length: 13min 16sec (796 seconds)

Published: Sat Mar 11 2023