‘The Last Of Us’ Stars Pedro Pascal And Bella Ramsey On The Fame And Attention That Comes Along With The End Of The World
deadline.comIn HBO’s hit series The Last of Us, it’s the end of the world as most of humanity knows it, but Pedro Pascal and Bella Ramsey feel just fine.
Long gone are the traces of the hardened survivor Joel (Pascal) and the teenage spitfire Ellie (Ramsey), who must endure the collapse of modern civilization due to a deadly mutable fungus that turns people into zombie-like creatures.
Well, sort of. Comfortably sat within the confines of a secluded lounge at the Directors Guild of America, the pair are swapping inside jokes and bursting with laughter.
While Pascal trades in Joel’s stoicism for passion, Ramsey can’t quite shake the penchant for Ellie’s habitual cussing. For what they don’t share with their characters in terms of post-apocalyptic misery, they speak with similar thoughtfulness as they describe the vulnerabilities of Joel and Ellie’s partnership, and of their experience working on the widely popular video game adaptation created by Neil Druckmann (who also created the game) and Chernobyl’s Craig Mazin.
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