“We want our characters to stand on their own two feet.” And when we see the reactions we're like, OK, we don't like that,” said Bruce Straley, game director of The Last Of Us. 'We hear what people are saying – we didn't realise that ourselves because we just try to push for the characters that we want. Naughty Dog appeared to take this advice on board – when the game finally came out in June 2013, Ellie looked very different to the character in the trailer. I don't think that they were really working on the Ellen Page character I think they had a similar intention, in the sense that they were probably also looking for a character that was both fragile and strong.” “For us it wasn't too much of an issue because we knew we were working with Ellen Page., So it was then a problem on the side of Naughty Dog to change the model, I guess.

To this day you will encounter gamers who think Page is connected in some way to the series. Indeed, many gamers assumed Page had starred in The Last Of Us and provided the voice of Ellie. “But I am actually acting in a video game called Beyond Two Souls, so it was not appreciated.”Įllie’s resemblance to Page was widely commented upon when the trailer came out. 'I guess I should be flattered that they ripped off my likeness,” Page said in a 2013 “Ask Me Anything” q&a on website Reddit. And Page didn’t hesitate in pointing out the resemblance. Down to the mirror-pool eyes and freckles. In the trailer for The Last Of Us on PlayStation 3, Ellie was a deader ring for the character Page played in 2007 indie comedy Juno. Page – who came out as a trans man in 2020 – had been struck by the similarity between their appearance and that of The Last Of Us’s plucky teen heroine Ellie in the original Naughty Dog video game. But if it is today the toast of the entertainment industry, the franchise was nearly nipped in the bud a decade ago when on the receiving end of a stinging rebuke by actor Elliot Page. The Last Of Us’s portrayal of a zombie apocalypse ushered in by mind-controlling fungi has mushroomed into the biggest success in prestige television since Game of Thrones.

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