Bella Ramsay can take a solid punch. But they can also give some.
To do this, the actor merged a new element in preparing for the second season of “”Another of us: Physical training.
For two months, they practiced martial arts and worked to become more efficient in fighting and weapons. They also worked to increase their strength.
“It was fun,” says Ramzi from their training. “Getting your fitness and strong fit, it was great that you have an excuse to do this.”
“Everything has gone since everything,” they add.
One of the first scenes called by the 21 -year -old British actor for the second season, the battle in a fold seen in the first show on Sunday. More training exercise than the actual quarrel, Elie from Ramsey eventually descends her bigger enemy before learning, to her grief, that her opponent pulled punches.
“My favorite days were in the days of a trick,” says Ramsey. “I had a lot of bruises all the time … My lip was seized [while filming] Season 2. I am still dealing with a small scar on my lips. “
Created by Craig Mazin and Neil DrukmannHBO drama has been placed after the terrible in a world that was integrated due to the outbreak of mysterious fungi. The injured human host turns into fatty monsters to continue spreading the disease.
Ramsey plays Elie’s role, a teenage, flexible and flexible girl who coincides with the only well -known person impervious To fungi. the The first season From the witnessed Modify video games Elie followed her hesitating will initially Joel (played by Pedro Pascal) while traveling across the country in the hope of helping with efforts to treat. Things do not go as planned.
Bella Ramzi, the star of “Another of us”, says that the shooting in the second season was more skilled than the first.
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The physical fitness of the season that started outside the gate was one of the things that Duckmann discussed with Ramsey and praised them for their commitment to training. With a Ramsey height slightly over 5 feet, Elie uses its size as a origin – combining reckless comfort and confidence to subjugate much larger enemies, people and the injured alike.
“There was a lot of dedication to physical preparation, and I think he helped them emotionally prepare for this role,” he says, called Ramsey “the best.”
Ramsey, who sits on a sofa in a West Hollywood hotel wing one morning in March, easily admits that the practice of journalism is not the preferred part of the job. Although nearly 10 years since their intermittent role is as awater Liana Mormon in “game of thrones“The amount of interest that comes from the filming of the introduction in a great show such as” The Last of Us “is a completely different size.
However, it is a game for a window conversation circulating through stories about the taste of mushroom cakes (thanks, The British boom), Appear in a conversation Music video For GirlBand! For fear of their lives while riding a turbulent water plane and even their Caraviuum song for David Guetta.
While they looked back at the time of filming the second season, Ramzi admits that the shooting was more tired and difficult for them this time. They also notice more than once that they noticed the similarities between their characters and themselves. For example, in the second season, we see Eli trying to establish her independence and stay away from paternity and motherhood in the Joel helicopter.
“I definitely feel it,” says Ramsey, who chose to live alone while shooting this season. Unlike the first when they lived with their mother. “I want people to trust that I am good and I got it and I can do things on my own.”
They also feel the character’s contact because Elie’s play helped them understand more about himself.
Jesse (Yong Mazino) is a friend of Eli (Bella Ramsey) who was presented at “The Last of Us” season two.
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Five years after the events of the first season, the opening match for the second season reveals that Elie and Joel’s relationship has become tense since the transition to the settlement in Jackson, Season 1 It ended with Joel that the only way to develop a potential treatment for infection involves the removal of Eli’s brain. It leads to a deadly struggle against the wrestling, and it is the militia group responsible for the facility in which the procedure was to take place. Joel and then lies in Elie What happened?.
Ramzi describes Joel’s actions as a “moral mystery”.
“I understand that and I have a lot of sympathy for him, but what he did was a mistake,” says Ramsey. But “there is no correct or wrong answer, really. I think it is accurate and a kind of characters … in the second season, we see the repercussions of that and the lie. I think the lie was the worst thing.”
Although it is not clear how much Eli knows about what happened, it was hinting that Joel was not completely sincere. Among the things that Ramsey found is interesting about Elie in the second season, that we see her working in a society. For the orphan that mostly grew up alone, being part of the family unit is completely new. Ramsey was also keen to explore Elie’s anger as a person who was not often tested alone.
“I think Bella really adopts the difficult part of being Elie … that Elie is the hero of the novel, so that Elie is not.” “There is a hero and evil in this person, and this is part of the goal of all of this. Our dependence on being heroes or bad guys harm, and leads to some very bad behavior.”
He added: “I think Bella as an actor, it was exciting not to have to photograph someone who would encourage him all the time.” “They were very excited about the possibility of being someone who would face people.”
Mazen is full of patriarchal affection for Ramzi describing the young actor as an “old spirit”. It reveals that it is like Eli, Ramsay has a spirit of humor and the love of pun. But its greatest difference, according to Mazin, is a Ramsey tendency towards kindness.
“Bella’s instinct is to be more concerned about others than they are with them,” Mazin says. “Elie has a more self -focused view. Elie’s world is He and Joel and God helps anyone in the middle.”
In the first episode of the second season, Dina (Isabella Mercyid) and Elie (Bella Ramsay) shares a close moment during the New Year’s Eve dance.
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This kindness is more clear as Ramsey discusses their ideas about identity, acting and societies they represent. Last month, the actor participated that they had autism in an interview with The British boom. In 2023, before the first show of the show, they mentioned that they were unusual in an interview with New York Times.
“I am really bad in keeping my own secrets,” says Ramsey, who appreciates his privacy but also admits that their platform is a privilege. So “when I am in an interview place … I am very likely to tell people of personal things. But this did not feel a great decision.”
“If there is a way in which I can talk about issues of interest and know people that being yourself like … the best possible way you can move across the world … it is something that is definitely a blessing to exist in the eyes of the audience,” they add.
Join Ramsey as part of the second show team for the second season, Isabela Merced DinaThe best friend of Elie and the interest of love, as well as Mazino Young JesseAnother close friend of Elie, who has so far used to Dina. The new is also Kaitlyn Dever’s my dadWho is in the search for revenge.
While Ramsey only praises their colleagues, they also admit that they were somewhat tense in the season. As a poetry person always that adults were easier to have a friendship with a child, Ramsey says they “feel very fear” by people in their age group.
“I felt as a shy new child,” says Ramsey. “They were all wonderful, I felt as shy, embarrassing.”
Despite some urbanization, Ramsey is a professional in the conversation of anything Spoilers They were more feasible than exhibitors.
Mazin confirms, for example, that Ramsey will sing and play guitar as to this season. (“This is Bella, no tricks!” He says.) Drogman adds that Ramsey was involved in discussions about the song they would play.
The process of music and its making, and it is among the things they resort to to cancel the pressure. Although it is slightly present at the present time, they believe that they will likely get some songs “in a steroid” way in the end.
“Music has given me a kind of feelings of joy and contentment that gives me the group,” Ramsie says. “It is good to have another outlet to be able to feel this way.”
Bella Ramsey says they feel as if they were the “shy new child” about their new colleagues.
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Druckmann also states that Romance Ellie and Dina are firmly firmly at the beginning of the “Last of Us Part II” game than it is on TV. However, the show takes its time to develop their relationship more than slow burning.
While the second season of “The Last of Us” arrives at a time when right -wing fighting towards LGBTQ+ communities and their rights to rise, the privilege was the goal Homosexuality And transfobic backlash For years.
Ramsey says: “It is good for these people to get angry with it.” “You can get angry at that, but it will not change the fact that the show comes out and there Kissing women In it there is a passing person in the game, Lev. “
However, Eli and Dina are exposed to gay statements in the first episode of the season, you feel timely in time in the current political climate. Before the quarrel, Elie Dina tells that people should not see it as a threat despite the latter’s insistence.
“I think it’s really important with programs like this to show that we are not a threat,” Ramsay says. “This is no reason to be [terrified]I am not a threat line “closely related to the societies represented by this show and other art. [We’re] Just human beings like anyone else. There is no reason to threaten by societies that bring a lot of light and love in the world. “
This may be true with regard to the LGBTQ community – but this does not change the fact that Eli is very dangerous.
