Ashley Johnson opens up about portraying a character who is in a much darker place in TheLastOfUsPartII than when we met her in the original 2013 title from Naughty Dog
, which Sony released June 19. In the original game, Ellie was a child navigating a dangerous wasteland of humans infected with a parasitic fungal infection that rendered them into zombies capable of inflicting bloody damage. She was accompanied on her journey by Joel , a smuggler who lost his own daughter years earlier. , everything is much, much worse.
I love this character so much, and I’ve been able to play her for 10 years now. I was so excited to jump into the second game knowing that we were going to explore more of Ellie and see other sides of her — her growth and her flaws. Obviously, we’re seeing Ellie in a much darker place. After Neil sat me down and told me the story of the second game, I was nervous but also very excited to go on this journey and tell this story, because I think it’s a very important story to tell.
At the beginning of this game, Ellie’s already grappling with a lot. If anyone’s played the first game, we know that at the end of that whole journey that Ellie and Joel went on, she was trying to find meaning and purpose with her immunity. On top of that, she was lied to by someone she cares very deeply for. So when we see her, she’s older and dealing with survivor’s guilt, and also dealing with the person who she went on this journey with who was not truthful to her.
Of course, there are some beautiful moments of levity in this game, but a lot of it deals with very heavy subject matter. It’s pretty tough to be living in that for weeks at a time or while you’re shooting it. But I think we all were so excited to tell this story and be in this world again with these characters, and be together as a group again, because it’s such a creative and collaborative experience that we all have with each other.
Ellie's interactions with Dina and the relationship there are key to the emotional thread of this game. Do chemistry reads exist in video games? How did you work with Shannon Woodward to portray that relationship with authenticity?
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