Ashley Johnson famously performed Ellie in Naughty Canine’s The Last of Us video games, and now she’s reacted to the criticisms of Season 2 of the HBO sequence. Chatting with (*2*), Johnson stated the sequence has “very passionate” followers, and this will go each methods by way of sentiment.
“Generally that zeal feels actually nice, and typically it feels not nice. However you already know, I perceive it. I perceive loving one thing a lot, and wanting it to be what you need it to be,” she stated.
The HBO sequence makes many adjustments from the video games, and showrunner and author Craig Mazin stated earlier than Season 2 even got here out that he anticipated followers to revolt. Relating to fan suggestions usually, Mazin stated he’s solely attempting to do what is true for the story, even when folks do not prefer it.
“We do not function to both make folks completely happy on social media or keep away from making them upset. We simply do what we predict is true, and we hope that individuals come alongside for the journey and luxuriate in it,” he stated.
Johnson did not dig into particular factors of criticism for Season 2, however remarked that individuals at all times need their work to be loved by as many individuals as doable. Nonetheless, it is not doable to please everybody.
“It may be arduous typically, when you’re making these items, and in your facet of issues, you are enthusiastic about it, and enthusiastic about it, and hopefully that these two issues can meet,” she stated. “Generally they don’t. And that is arduous, as a result of I imply, anytime you are engaged on something, you need folks to love it, and also you need folks to find it irresistible as a lot as you. However I like The Last of Us in each kind, and I’m so completely happy that I get to be part of that telling of that story.”
After enjoying Ellie in The Last of Us and The Last of Us: Half II, Johnson appeared in Season 1 as Ellie’s mom, Anna. Naughty Canine nearly made DLC or a spin-off sport that informed Anna’s story and supplied extra context round Ellie’s beginning.
The Last of Us Season 3 is developing subsequent in 2027, and it might be the present’s ultimate season. Naughty Canine is engaged on a brand new sport, Intergalactic: The Heretic Prophet, and probably The Last of Us: Half 3.