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Why Bella Ramsey Almost Turned Down the Starring Role in The Last of Us · Direct From Hollywood with Ryan Seacrest

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  Speaker 1: Direct from Hollywood with Ryan Seacrest. You won't find a
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  Speaker 1: video game adaptation with more pressure on it than HBO's
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  Speaker 1: new dramatic action series The Last of Us, because the
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  Speaker 1: source material is no ordinary video game. The team PlayStation
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  Speaker 1: Zombie Classic is widely considered the best story ever told
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  Speaker 1: in a game, and that expectation Spotlight almost convinced the
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  Speaker 1: show's young star Bella Ramsey to pass on the job.
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  Speaker 1: The rising star, best known for playing the child leader
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  Speaker 1: Lady Leona Mormont on Game of Thrones, had never had
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  Speaker 1: this high profile of a rule, she tells Hollywood reporter.
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  Speaker 1: I seriously considered maybe I don't want to be famous,
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  Speaker 1: so I'm not going to do it because it will
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  Speaker 1: propel me to a place I don't want to go
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  Speaker 1: in terms of being known. I'd like to blend in
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  Speaker 1: and hide. But eventually it was the quality of the
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  Speaker 1: story and how much she related to her character, Ellie,
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  Speaker 1: that made it a yes. She adds Ellie felt like
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  Speaker 1: a character I already had in me, Like the skins
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  Speaker 1: that you wear in a video game. She was one
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  Speaker 1: of my skins already. Last the most premier Sunday at
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  Speaker 1: HBO Max, that's direct from Hollywood,