You Can Just Play The Game Again

Bella Ramsey is not here for the criticism The Last of Us series has been receiving from passionate video game fans.

In a new interview, Ramsey suggests critics play the video game instead of watching Season 3 of the HBO series.

“There’s nothing I can do about it anyway. The show is out. There’s nothing that can be changed or altered. So I’m like, there’s not really any point in reading or looking at anything,” Ramsey said during an appearance on The Awardist podcast. “People are of course entitled to their opinions. But it doesn’t affect the show, it doesn’t affect how the show continues or anything in any way. They’re very separate things to me. So no, I just don’t really engage.”

With the third season of the live-action adaptation of the Naughty Dog post-apocalyptic video game coming up, Ramsey has given the haters a suggestion.

“You don’t have to watch it. If you hate it that much, the game exists. You can just play the game again,” they said. “If you do want to watch it, hope you enjoy it.”

Ramsey stars as Ellie in The Last of Us, a teenage girl who is immune to the Cordyceps infection and may be the key to creating a vaccine. Other actors in the series include Pedro Pascal, Gabriel Luna, Isabela Merced, Young Mazino, and Kaitlyn Dever.

Season 3 of the series will see the departure of co-creator Neil Druckman who will only serve as an executive producer and not as a writer or director.

“I’ve made the difficult decision to step away from my creative involvement in The Last of Us on HBO. With work completed on season 2 and before any meaningful work starts on season 3, now is the right time for me to transition my complete focus to Naughty Dog and its future projects, including writing and directing our exciting next game, Intergalactic: The Heretic Prophet, along with my responsibilities as Studio Head and Head of Creative,” he said in a statement in July.