Bella Ramsey Says ‘The Last Of Us’ Season 2 Is “Likely”

Five episodes in and the HBO series The Last Of Us has already become one of the most talked about shows of 2023.  The third episode of the series, which featured a gay storyline with Murray Bartlett and Nick Offerman playing a gay couple, won critical acclaim.Murray Bartlett (right) and Nick Offerman play a gay couple in the HBO series ‘The Last of Us’.Ramsey plays the role of teenager Ellie in the series, who is travelling with Joel, played by Pedro Pascal, across America, after a mutated Cordyceps fungus outbreak. The Last of Us is based on a very successful video game and in Part II of the original game, Ellie falls in love with another woman Dina and also introduces a trans character Lev. Ramsey, who is non-binary, told British GQ in an interview that she was not concerned with the reaction of homophobes. Ramsey revealed that she had worn a chest binder for most of the shooting of Season 1 and had “honest” conversations around gender and sexuality with Pascal, who has a trans sister. “And they weren’t always deep: they could be funny and humorous, the whole spectrum. We were just very honest and open with each other,” Ramsey told GQ. Blair Durkee, the associate director of gaming for GLAAD, told that for “many LGBTQ people, to see characters like yourself represented in the games you play can be critical.

Bella Ramsey is the star of HBO’s The Last of Us where she plays Ellie opposite Pedro Pascal’s Joel.

Zack Sharf Bella Ramsey has a message for homophobic viewers upset about gay storylines making their way into HBO’s blockbuster new series “The Last of Us”: “Get used to it.” Ramsey stars in the video game adaptation as Ellie. The HBO series earned critical acclaim for its third episode, which expanded on the source material to tell a gay love story between characters Bill and Frank. Toxic fans review bombed the episode on websites such as IMDb, but Bill and Frank’s romance is just the beginning of gay representation on “The Last of Us.” Ramsey told GQ UK magazine that she visited “The Last of Us” Season 2 writers room and thinks the HBO series will continue to closely “follow the storyline of the games.” This means that Ramsey’s Ellie will most likely have a Season 2 relationship with a woman named Dina. The actor is hoping HBO stays true to Ellie’s sexual orientation in the games.

Adele couldn’t be bothered during the Super Bowl Halftime Show!

' Pogues spent their first two seasons of television consistently on the run, and the upcoming season 3 now promises similar physical challenges. The trailer, released earlier this month, shows John B (Chase Stokes) and his friends scrambling across rugged hills, scurrying away from enemies and battling it out in more than one brawl. How do they keep up with it all? ET's Cassie DiLaura spoke with the cast ahead of the season 3 premiere. The trailer for Netflix's third installment of the beloved adventure series sees John B joining Sarah Cameron (Madelyn Cline), Pope (Jonathan Daviss), JJ (Rudy Pankow), Kiara (Madison Bailey) and Cleo (Carlacia Grant) in their pursuit of the mysterious «El Dorado» treasure. Stokes told ET that the physical challenge of such a storyline is twofold.

all eyes were on Rihanna at the Super Bowl LVII, there was a lot more going on in the celebrity-packed stadium – and we don't just mean the nail-biting football game between the Kansas City Chiefs and the Philadelphia Eagles.From celebrity selfies to Marta Stewart's mishap and Blue Ivy's rare appearance with dad Jay Z, here are the Super Bowl 2023 moments you might have missed.WATCH: Rihanna's career-defining Super Bowl showRihanna preserved her energy while backstage, being driven around in a golf buggy ahead of her career-defining performance. Rihanna moved around backstage in buggyThe Diamonds singer, who revealed her pregnancy onstage, smiled and waved from the cart, like true pop royalty.She also revealed her pre-stage ritual, sipping on a bottle of Fiji water – with a straw, of course, to keep her red lipstick perfectly in place.WOW: NFL players' gorgeous wives and girlfriends: from Patrick Mahomes to Jason KelceNational treasure Martha Stewart proved she's a big football fan, arriving at the stadium exceptionally early at 2:11pm.

Rihanna perform in the halftime show.The 34-year-old singer previously admitted she wasn’t interested in the big game — which saw the Kansas City Chiefs defeat the Philadelphia Eagles — but rather for the 13-minute performance by the “Umbrella” singer.“I’m going just for Rihanna,” Adele said during one of her Las Vegas residency shows earlier this month.

Holidays were much on the mind of Real Time host Bill Maher on Friday. He talked about the Super Bowl, Election Day, and Valentine’s Day during the course of the show, starting right at the top by acknowledging this weekend’s big game.

Melanie Lynskey doesn’t have time for body shaming — of any kind!

to pain medication.“I hate the word ‘taboo.’ I think it should be stricken from the dictionary,” Bell in a new interview, per . “There should be no topic that’s off the table for people to talk about.” keeps this same energy when discussing “hard topics” with ; nine-year-old Lincoln and eight-year-old Delta. “I talk to my kids about drugs, and the fact that their daddy is an addict and he’s in recovery, and we talk about sex,” she said.

Filmmaker Rob Marshall has spent a long time thinking about “The Little Mermaid.” Nearly five years, to be exact. When speaking to the Oscar-winning director about the 20th anniversary of “Chicago” (and a new deluxe home video release), he offered an update on his live-action redo of the 1989 Disney animated film, due in theaters this May. “I’m very excited to be finishing up after four-and-a-half years,” Marshall said.

It’s been nearly twenty years since he rode high in Hollywood with “The Mummy,” Trilogy, and the ‘90s films that made him famous (“Airheads,” “George of The Jungle”), but Brendan Fraser has been experiencing the Brendassaince thanks to his comeback role in Darren Aronofsky’s “The Whale,” a performance he’s been Oscar-nominated for and arguably remains the frontrunner (he was nominated for a Golden Globe, but has no love for that organization).

The Last Of Us delivered another series high on Sunday with 7.5M people tuning in across HBO and HBO Max.

Times, they are a-changin’. And a Bob Dylan musical is about to hit the big screen.Blueprint Pictures (the company behind “The Banshees of Inisherin”) announced today that Chlöe Bailey, Tosin Cole, Olivia Colman and Woody Harrelson will star in “Girl from the North Country,” an adaptation of the Tony-winning Broadway show inspired by the music of Bob Dylan.

Brooklyn Beckham and Nicola Peltz's former wedding planners have slammed the lawsuit against them as "frivolous".

Good news for The Last of Us fans. Episode 5 will be hitting HBO Max two days early.

Pedro Pascal raced through an apocalyptic version of Mario Kart during Saturday Night Live.

Liked Madelyn Cline‘s turn as Whiskey in “Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery“? Well, catch the actress in her other Netflix hit, “Outer Banks,” which has its third season premiere later this month. READ MORE: The 70 Most Anticipated TV Shows & Mini-Series Of 2023 In the latest season of the teen treasure-hunting drama, Cline’s Sarah and the rest of the Pogues find themselves washed up on a desert island, gold not in hand.

The Cleaning Lady will be back for another go-round. Fox has renewed the popular series for a third season, the network’s first live-action scripted renewal for the 2023-24 season. Additionally, Jeannine Renshaw (Good Girls) also has joined the show as an executive producer and will serve as showrunner with Miranda Kwok.

The Terminal List is continuing — and becoming a franchise for Amazon Studios. I have learned that Prime Video has finalized a Season 2 renewal for the hit series starring and executive produced by Chris Pratt and also has picked up an untitled prequel/Ben Edwards origin series headlined and executive produced by Taylor Kitsch, from The Terminal List creator/executive producer David DiGilio.