The last US boss defends the show against the criticisms of the second season
Craig Mazin, the HBO post-apocalyptic drama showrunner The last of usrejected a recurring criticism of this Beautiful ramseycharacter.
The series is adapted by a successful video game franchise and sees Ramsey, 21, playing Ellie, a young woman who is immune to the virus that devastated human civilization.
In the First season of the showwhich aired in 2022 and was adapted by the original game of 2013 The last of usEllie is 14 years old. At the time of the second game and the series, the character is now 19.
While this leap the character closer to the age of the real world of Ramsey, some fans had stated that the youthful appearance of the actor-rate to the character of the original video game has made them a strange suitable for the second season.
“Ellie in the game seems much older,” Mazin said, in a recent interview with The Hollywood journalist. “Some people change quite dramaticly and some people don’t.
“I am not interested in the physical aspect – even if I looked at Bella’s face for years during the assembly, and I can see that they have certainly grown. I am interested in the emotional maturity and the change of personality.”
Ramsey, who won the widespread applause for their performance in the first season, is also 5 feet 1 “, which required a specific approach when it was the combat scenes of the series, explained Mazin.
“How does a little person fight with a big person will not be karate,” he said. “They will not be fantastic punches and kicks: they will lose.
“The answer is Juujitsu. I look at a lot of Jiujitsu and I specifically looked at sessions in which a little person is breaking down a big person. Here’s how it would happen because nobody is around in this world.”
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Ramsey’s stature also influenced Dina’s casting, Ellie’s love of the love for the next second season. Isabella Merced (Alien: Romulus) In the end he was chosen in the role.
“We wanted someone who was this contrast, this sunlight, because Ellie is hard, reserved and attentive, and we wanted someone to be the sun,” Mazin said. “We didn’t even want someone who was 5’9”, because Bella is quite short. It is one of those things in which it is a little shaky to be framed (two actors with a very different height), or Dina could feel maternal, like a mother. “
The last of us He returns on April 13, 2025 and can be watched in the United Kingdom on Sky and now.
