Will we fall in love with Pascal and Ramsay these next few months?We’ll find out really soon, because The Last of Us premieres on HBO next Monday, January 16.The couple were first linked back in December, with Lewis even making an appearance on Ellie's Instagram.

It didn’t feel like watching an actor.' The showrunner asked her co-stars on Game of Thrones, who assured him that she was 'all joy on set' and Bella went from audition to signing in less than a month. 'It was like Ellie realized in live action. 'Bella felt so real,' the director explains. But when Mazin and Druckmann saw the recording of Ramsey's audition, they fell in love with her portrayal. Fisher (Eight Grade, The Texas Chainsaw Massacre) Cailee Spaeny (Bad Times at the Royale) and even Kiernan Shipka (The chilling adventures of Sabrina). Later the names of Sophia Lillis (It, Gretel & Hansel), Elsie K. Fortunately or unfortunately, the production of the series was extended through covid, and due to the aging of both, the casting had to be restarted. The first and the ones that stood out the most were those of Maisie Williams (Arya in Game of Thrones) and Kaitlyn Dever (Booksmart), the last of which even did a table read. For her part, the creators of the series had many other names on the table before hers. However, with Bella Ramsey there were many more doubts and not only from the team, but also from her.”I seriously considered that maybe I don’t want to be famous so I’m not going to do this show because it’s going propel me to a place I don’t want to go to in terms of being seen and being known', reveals the actress herself on the pages of the magazine. It’s not the same,” explained Mazin to The Hollywood Reporter. And you can do the math like: Mandalorian = Joel Baby Yoda = … but then you realize, actually, no. “We talked about the fact that he was in The Mandalorian. However, all the producers were delighted with the idea of having Oberyn Martell, a DEA agent and the Mandalorian as the protagonist.

Casting Pedro Pascal was relatively easy and it took the team 'no effort' to imagine the actor as Joel, but in the case of Ellie, the network considered more than 100 actresses before landing on Ramsey for the part.Ĭraig Mazin, the showrunner of the series, tells that when he sent a first draft of the script to Pedro Pascal, the actor was so excited that Mazin himself began to fear that the thing would not work precisely for that reason, in case his emotions overwhelmed him. A very interesting story because both cases have very little to do with each other. A few days before the premiere of The Last of Us on HBO, the creators of the series have revealed why they ended up opting for Pedro Pascal and Bella Ramsey as the new faces of Joel and Ellie.

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