The Last Of Us Won’t Recast Ellie For Season 2
HBO’s The Last of Us series is returning for a second season, and there will be a time jump. But the network is not going to recast actress Bella Ramsey.
Naughty Dog’s Neil Druckmann, who is also a writer on the TV series, said during a roundtable interview with press that the only way the team would consider recasting Ellie would be if Ramsey wanted to leave the series. “Even then, I’m not sure we would grant her that. We might still force her to come back to Season 2,” he joked, as reported by IGN.
Druckmann said with the original Last of Us game, Naughty Dog got “incredibly lucky” to find actress Ashley Johnson. And then for the TV series, Druckmann said “somehow we got lighting in a bottle again with Bella.”