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Ghetto images“I made a real decision when I was, like 11, that I would not be like a typical teenager,” says Bella Ramsay.
Talk about underestimation.
By the time Bella was 13, they were broadcast on the world's biggest television show in the world at the time, Game of Thrones.
And when the actor, who is already 21, talks to BBC Newsbeat, this is the night after walking on the red carpet at the London premiere of the last of the United States second season.
The Playstation Video Game Smash-Hit adaptation was a critical and rating success, launching the young star to the full leading status of the role.
“I think it's a pretty unique experience,” admits Bella, who was originally from Nottingham, England, modestly.
The rest of this article contains spoilers for the last season of us.
Bella, who uses neutral pronouns, plays Eli in the drama of HBO, placed in a post-apocalyptic future, where humanity is almost deleted by Cordicheps.
The deadly parasitic fungus turns people into zombies -like beings, but Eli is immunized by infection and is humanity's last hope for treatment.
In the first season, viewers saw a connection of a daughter father slowly bloom between Eli and Merka Joel, played by Pedro Pascal.
After escorting the 14-year-old youth on a dangerous trip to the United States to meet with vaccine doctors, it becomes obvious that Eli must die in order to produce a potential medicine.
Instead of sacrificing her, Joel kills medicines and runs with the unconscious teenager.
When she wakes up, he lies to her about what happened, and the season of the rock, which ends, leaves the viewers with the strong impression that Eli is well aware of the fraud.
So when the new season begins, five years later, “obviously there is tension in this regard,” says Bella.
“It was quite terrible to play.”
The vow of the young Bella not to be a “typical teenager” was actually smaller for their careers and more about their relationship with their parents, they say.
No screaming matches, no doors.
“So I never went through this with my father,” Bella says. “Me and my father are great.”
“So it was somehow sad to do this with Eli and Joel.”
But, Bella adds, Eli “is very justified in her feelings for everything.”
Ghetto imagesEli is 19 in the second season, not much younger than Bella, who started shooting the first series in 2021.
The number two was delayed by the Hollywood strikes in 2023, so in the meantime it happened a lot to Bella.
There is symmetry.
“It's so fun to step down to a hero, but with some new revelations about her and for me in my own life,” says Bella.
“There is always like a merger of me and whatever character I play, and it happens times 10 with Eli because I spend so much time in her skin.”
Bella recently spoke publicly about being diagnosed with autism while working on the first series of the show.
“It was something I didn't really think too much,” Bella begins.
“Actually, no, that's a lie.
Bella says that opening them allowed them to “be a little more free” and hopes that it would inspire others.
“You can be in such industries and openly say that you are autistic, why there should be no such stigma around this and such a fear around it,” says Bella.
“So I'm very proud that I can say it out loud, and also just bring more awareness.
“Autism is available in all different shapes and sizes, and I'm not someone that people may usually see and go like” Oh, you're autistic. “
Naughty dogBella is also identified as a non-rated, and the new series of “the last of us” is deeper explores Eli's same-sex relationship with Dina, played by Isabella Merced.
“I have the feeling that we are still figuring out how to depict storylines in the media in a way that feels very authentic, but it also feels very real about history,” says Bella.
“This is what the last of us is doing so well, in my opinion, with Eli and Dina.
“There is no feeling that it is like a presentation added from above to check the field – it really feels like it's just a part of the story.
“So it was exciting to depict this type of relationship in this carrier.”
The last of us has already been ordered for the third series after a positive critical reception for the second season, so Bella – and Eli – will still grow in the public eye for some time.
This is something that “comes with pros and cons,” says Bella.
“But it is wonderful that my growth and development were immortalized on the screen.
“I feel very grateful for that.”
But Bella says there is one thing that is not easier.
“The more you grow up, you just realize how little you know, I think. And I think it's something Eli finds too.”
The last of our second season starts on Sky and Streaming Service now on Monday, April 14th.
