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The father-daughter duo of Pedro Pascal and Bella Ramsey from The Last of Us on HBO have been positively received by the audience. The Last of Us chronicles the struggles of father Joel (Pascal) and his teenage daughter Ellie (Ramsey) as they try to navigate a post-apocalyptic world from which most humans have been obliterated due to the outbreak of a deadly mutable virus that someone turns humans into zombies.
Neil Druckmann created The Last of Us alongside Craig Mazin of Chernobyl fame and the on-screen adaptation of a wildly popular video game of the same name.
In an exclusive interview with Deadline, Pascal and Ramsey spoke at length about the process of coming on board the HBO show. Ramsey further highlighted their initial apprehensions about fame and popularity.
The Last of Us stars Pedro Pascal and Bella Ramsey speak about fame and popularity
During the interview, Ramsey was asked about the fact that they had once almost rejected the role of Ellie owing to their apprehensions about fame. To this, Ramsey answered:
"Yeah, I know, right? It’s been a mixture of things. I keep thinking that I’ve adjusted, and then something new will happen and I’ll have realized I’m not adjusted at all. There’s been a lot of really lovely positive reactions, and most people that come and say hi are very sweet. But I think when it’s just happening so much, it can get tiring, and you can slip into feeling like more of an object than a person. That’s one of the biggest things. It’s scary sometimes. And also, what I find hard is the knowledge that (fame) is never going to be less than this now. I can’t reverse it."
Pascal then interjected that Ramsey had crossed the threshold of popularity, and Ramsey further added:
"Yeah. And there’s no way back, even if I quit acting, which I’m not going to do, but even that won’t cure it because I’ve already crossed the threshold. I’m learning to accept it in terms of traveling, which I enjoy particularly, and doing lots of press. But recently, I’ve been like, “Well, this is it. This is my life now.” And I just have to get on with it and deal with it and accept it. And this acceptance does a lot for me rather than trying to fight it."
How does The Last of Us star Pedro Pascal feel about fame?
Compared to Ramsey, Pascal has had a long and fruitful career in the show business. When asked about his thoughts on having fame and living in the public eye, he remarked:
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"I don’t have a problem with it. But there’s a routine function, I think, that you don’t realize how precious it is to pull up and put gas in your car before you’ve showered or had coffee or anything like that. And then somebody’s taping you with their phone, and that’s the kind of object feeling. There are different moments of the day that feel more vulnerable than others when your central nervous system simply isn’t prepared for an interruption of that kind, and that can have an accumulative effect for sure."
The Last of Us is exclusively available on HBO.
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