Bella Ramsey on Various Reddit Theories About ‘The Last of Us’

Spoiler Warning: The ending and plot of The Last of Us are discussed in this article.

Ever since The Last of Us premiered on January 15, 2023, people can’t stop talking about it. The first season ran for eight weeks, and throughout those weeks, the HBO post-apocalyptic drama was trending.

Adapted from the game of the same name, The Last of Us follows Joel, played by Pedro Pascal, and Ellie, portrayed by Bella Ramsey, as they try to get across the post-apocalyptic United States twenty years into the pandemic caused by a mass fungal infection.

Since the series’s release, netizens have claimed that it is the best adaptation of a video game to date. It has been critically acclaimed for its writing, production, acting, and even score.

The show was renewed for its second season on January 2023. Fans and followers are eagerly awaiting for the next season.

While they do so, they have come up with various theories about the show and its future. They often discuss these theories on Reddit, and Ramsey reacted to a few viral ones with Vanity Fair.

Bella Ramsey on Reddit theories of ‘The Last of Us’

On April 11, 2023, Ramsey sat down with Vanity Fair and discussed the possible theories related to the show. She confirmed some of them while saying some were simply absurd.

The first theory that she was impressed by was about infecting pregnant mothers. Ellie’s mother was infected before giving birth to her. 

As a result, Ellie is immune to Cordyceps. Now, if every pregnant woman were to be infected, a whole new generation of immune babies would be born.

Another Reddit theory suggested that Ellie was not just important to the show because she was immune to Cordyceps. She is a brave and strong young lady with a “huge unbreakable heart” who does not hesitate to fight or raise her voice.

As a result, she is meant to lead and unite the entire group of survivors to a better future. Ramsey commented that this theory was the underlying plot of The Last of Us and would most likely happen in the future.

One of the Reddit theories Ramsey wholeheartedly agreed on was Joel’s connection with Ellie. She confirmed that Joel believed it was not worth sacrificing Ellie to the humanity that killed his daughter Sarah.

The giraffes symbolized true innocence for Joel, which was vanishing from the Earth at a rapid speed. He realized that the world needed innocence, and for this, it needed people like Ellie.

Ramsey further confirmed that Cordyceps was not the real disease —  “it was what people had become.” She also reacted to the Reddit theories about Joel being Ellie’s dad. 

At first, the actor was in denial, but after giving some thought to it, she welcomed the possibility of Pascal being her reel dad. Similarly, Ramsey agreed with the theories about the doctors employed by The Fireflies.

The Reddit theory suggested that those doctors were med-school dropouts who did not know what they were doing. The Redditor was convinced that no doctor would be impatient or stupid “hack out” the brain of the one immune person —  Ellie.

Ramsey agreed with the Redditor and noted that the timeline of The Last of Us was twenty years into the pandemic. So there was no formal education or practice for twenty years.

As a result, the doctors did not know what they were doing. While Ramsey agreed with some of the Reddit theories, we won’t know how the series will play out unless the second season is released.

Bella Ramsey’s bio 

Ramsey was born Isabella May Ramsey on September 2003 in Nottingham. At the time of writing, her age is 19.

According to IMDb, she is currently 1.56m tall, meaning her height in feet is 5’ 1½.” She is non-binary and is indifferent towards any pronouns used to refer to her.

She started working at the age of four. However, she came into the limelight after portraying Lyanna Mormont in the HBO fantasy drama series Game of Thrones from 2016 to 2019.

It was Ramsey’s first role with a credit. After making her television debut in ‘The Broken Man’ (season 6, episode 7), fans and critics praised Ramsey as a standout performer for capturing the tough-minded leadership style of her role. 

Bella Ramsey’s height in feet is 5’ 1½.” (Source: Instagram)

Ramsey portrayed Mormont for the seventh and eighth seasons of the show. Ramsey played Mildred Hubble, the title character, in the 2017 television version of the novel The Worst Witch. 

For this, she was nominated for the Young Performer category at the 2019 British Academy Children’s Awards. In 2020, Ramsey revealed through Instagram that she had departed the show because of mental health issues. 

With Luke Pearson, Kurt Mueller, and Stephanie Simpson, Ramsey received the 2019 BAFTA award for Best Children’s Animation for her work as the voice of the title character in the 2018 Netflix original series Hilda. 

Alongside Pascal, a fellow Game of Thrones alumnus, Ramsey was chosen in February 2021 to play the title character Ellie in the HBO adaptation of the 2013 video game The Last of Us. In 2021, she starred in 2021 lesbian horror short Requiem alongside Safia Oakley-Green.