Bella Ramsey has a message for “The Last of Us” haters who slammed the HBO series.
“You don’t have to watch,” the actor said while appearing on “The Awardist” podcast earlier this month. “If you hate it that much, the game exists. You can just play the game again. If you do want to watch it, hope you enjoy it.”
A premiere date for Season 3 of the post-apocalyptic drama series, which first aired in 2023, has not yet been announced. The show was renewed for a third season in April.
Ramsey went on to explain that because the “show is [already] out,” they don’t stress over the critics and avoid “reading or looking at anything” negative about the series.
“Because there’s nothing I can do about it anyway. The show is out. There’s nothing that can be changed or altered. So I’m like, there’s not really any point in reading or looking at anything,” they told host Gerrad Hall during the Aug. 19 episode.
Noting that “people are of course entitled to their opinions,” they added, “But it doesn’t affect the show, it doesn’t affect how the show continues or anything in any way. They’re very separate things to me. So no, I just don’t really engage.”
Some fans criticized “The Last of Us” after Joel (Pedro Pascal) was killed off in Season 2. Though some details of his death were altered in the show’s adaptation, his brutal death aligns with Joel’s fate in the video game “The Last of Us Part II.”
Meanwhile, other fans have focused on the differences in physical appearance between Ramsey and their character Ellie from the video game series.
In an interview with The Hollywood Reporter in April, Ramsey admitted that they became “quite fixated” on the differences in Ellie’s appearance and their own, but that the show’s co-creator Craig Mazin soothed their concerns.
“I got quite fixated on the way that Ellie looks in the game and her physical stature and, to be specific, the muscle definition in her arms. And I didn’t look like that. My body type isn’t that,” Ramsey said.
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They added, “I talked about this a lot with Craig, and he never put that expectation on me. He wanted me to look strong and feel strong, and that was in how I carried myself, my posture and the confidence you have. It was a challenge for me to let myself off the hook for not looking computer-generated.”
