Bella Ramsey visits WIRED to answer their most searched for questions on Google. When did Bella Ramsey get the part of Ellie in HBO’s “The Last of Us?” How tall are they? Is Bella Ramsey vegan? When did they join the cast of Game of Thrones? Is Bella Ramsey the voice of “Hilda” on Netflix? Who do they play in The Worst Witch? Bella answers these questions and many more on the WIRED Autocomplete Interview.
Season 2 of 'The Last of Us' premiered April 13th on HBO.
Director: Justin Wolfson
Director of Photography: Kevin Dynia
Editor: Cory Stevens
Talent: Bella Ramsey
Line Producer: Jamie Rasmussen
Associate Producer: Brandon White
Production Manager: Peter Brunette
Production Coordinator: Rhyan Lark
Talent Booker: Lauren Mendoza
Camera Operator: Constantine Economides
Sound Mixer: Sean Paulsen
Production Assistant: Ryan Coppola
Post Production Supervisor: Christian Olguin
Post Production Coordinator: Stella Shortino
Supervising Editor: Erica DeLeo
Assistant Editor: Andy Morell
Season 2 of 'The Last of Us' premiered April 13th on HBO.
Director: Justin Wolfson
Director of Photography: Kevin Dynia
Editor: Cory Stevens
Talent: Bella Ramsey
Line Producer: Jamie Rasmussen
Associate Producer: Brandon White
Production Manager: Peter Brunette
Production Coordinator: Rhyan Lark
Talent Booker: Lauren Mendoza
Camera Operator: Constantine Economides
Sound Mixer: Sean Paulsen
Production Assistant: Ryan Coppola
Post Production Supervisor: Christian Olguin
Post Production Coordinator: Stella Shortino
Supervising Editor: Erica DeLeo
Assistant Editor: Andy Morell
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00:00Hello, I'm Bella Ramsey, and this is the Wired, also complete, interview.
00:07Bella Ramsey, Google.com.
00:13Here we go.
00:14When did Bella Ramsey...
00:17Oh, look, you've got it ready for me to peel off.
00:19Join Game of Thrones.
00:21Joined in season six at the tender age of 11.
00:24It was a lot of fun.
00:25There isn't really a deliberate approach to acting at 11 years old,
00:29and there's still not really a deliberate approach now.
00:32I just sort of winged it and continue to, and I think it's going okay.
00:36Is Bella Ramsey Ellie in season two?
00:39Sure am, and hopefully also in subsequent seasons.
00:43Season two was a different experience for me in that we were filming in Vancouver
00:49rather than Calgary, so there was more rain,
00:52and the story is more emotional this season.
00:56Bella Ramsey, Pedro Pascal.
00:57I actually taught Pedro guitar for season two.
01:00Well, taught.
01:01I, like, showed him an E minor chord, and he was very pleased with himself.
01:05We are really good at making each other laugh at inappropriate moments,
01:11but I appreciate that people are just Googling us together.
01:14I guess it's to, like, pull up a photo of us together or something.
01:16I like that I'm first.
01:17Oh, I guess because you're typing in Bella Ramsey.
01:19That makes sense.
01:21How tall is Bella Ramsey in feet?
01:27Six foot four.
01:29I'm five foot one and a half.
01:32The half is very important.
01:33I think sometimes I'm five foot two on a good day.
01:36Apparently you're taller when you wake up first thing in the morning or last thing at night.
01:40I think first thing in the morning, so it depends on when you measure me.
01:42Very gentle toss.
01:47Round two.
01:48Bella Ramsey.
01:49Requiem.
01:50I feel like this is referencing a short film that I did called Requiem.
01:54It was really cool.
01:55It was set...
01:57I heard exactly when it was set.
01:59In the old days.
02:00During, like, the witch trials.
02:02And basically, I fall in love with a woman in the village.
02:06And that is absolute heresy.
02:09And really bad.
02:10But lots of people, like, were looking at the photos of me and Sapphire Oakley Green, who's also in that with me.
02:15And I think seeing pictures of me, like, kissing a girl and got excited about that for season two.
02:20Because I had kissed girls in season two.
02:22And in season one, I guess.
02:23With Riley.
02:24But season two, like, Ellie-Dina relationship is something that goes on.
02:28And so I think that's probably why that's Googled quite a lot.
02:31It's also just a great short film.
02:32Bella Ramsey.
02:33Peanut Butter Jelly.
02:36I sung Peanut Butter Jelly time a lot this season.
02:39Well, once specifically.
02:42But at other moments, it's, like, my hype song.
02:44If I have to do a really, like, emotional scene, something like Peanut Butter Jelly gets me going.
02:49Because it's so the opposite of what I'm supposed to be feeling.
02:53That somehow it helps with the crash and burn into the deep darkness.
02:58If I'm, like, singing Peanut Butter Jelly time and being ridiculous.
03:01Like, a song like this gives me a lot of energy.
03:03I need to have, like, that energy, like, reserve, I suppose, for doing an emotional scene.
03:08Like, the emotional stuff takes a lot of energy.
03:10To, like, cry and scream and be sad is actually quite hard work.
03:14So I think if I start the day, like, really sad and in it already, I'm, like, I'm just bored of being sad by, like, lunch.
03:20So I try and be, like, super happy instead in the lead up.
03:25And then I crash and burn.
03:26Does Bella Ramsey live in America?
03:30No.
03:31I live in the UK.
03:33And I think I always will.
03:34I have no current plans to move to America.
03:37Why do you think you always live there?
03:40I really like the tube.
03:43I really like the public transport setup.
03:45I really like British tea.
03:47You don't do tea well over here.
03:49You have tea, we were just discussing, with lemon and honey.
03:52What is that?
03:53Black tea with lemon and honey?
03:54Black tea with oat milk or whatever your milk of preference is.
03:58Yeah, you don't do tea right.
04:00And so that's my deal breaker.
04:05What are Bella Ramsey's pronouns?
04:08Whatever you fancy.
04:09Really.
04:10A lot of people call me they.
04:12Some people call me she.
04:14Occasionally I get a heat.
04:15And sort of whatever.
04:16I'm pretty chill about it all.
04:18For now.
04:19Maybe that will change, but for now.
04:21Is Bella Ramsey vegan?
04:23Well.
04:26Yes.
04:28Not technically, no.
04:28I eat eggs now.
04:29And I do eat honey.
04:30So I'm a bad vegan.
04:31I'm saying I'm vegan-ish.
04:34That's normally what I say to people.
04:36I'm vegan-ish.
04:36I will eat eggs.
04:37I had to eat eggs.
04:38Well, I didn't have to.
04:39I chose to eat eggs.
04:40Because I wasn't getting any protein otherwise.
04:42Especially for the season of the last of us,
04:44because I have to be strong and buff.
04:45So I started eating eggs because of that.
04:47But I try and get free range and organic.
04:50Is Bella Ramsey nice?
04:54Leave that up to you to decide.
04:56I think I'm pretty nice.
05:01I'm looking around for approval.
05:04No, I'm quite nice.
05:05I'm probably too nice.
05:06I've been told I'm too nice.
05:08I'm a bit of a people pleaser.
05:09Does Bella Ramsey sing?
05:12Uh, yeah.
05:15I actually have this weird ability to, like, choral sing.
05:20Like, more operatic singing.
05:22I was in a cathedral choir for years when I was younger.
05:25And so that's weirdly the singing that I'm, like, most comfortable with.
05:28My voice can go very high.
05:29I have a very high voice.
05:30I've always got a song in my head.
05:32And if it's in my head, it's generally going to come out of my mouth.
05:35Song-wise.
05:36It's going on right now.
05:38But it's just...
05:39Oh, it's called Every Day is a Game by Night Tapes.
05:43It's a cool song.
05:44Oh!
05:45I just released another Spotify playlist.
05:48I do that sometimes.
05:49I make a playlist.
05:50I've got, like, a public Spotify thing.
05:52It's, like, my only...
05:53It's not even social media.
05:54But anyway, new playlist on there.
05:56And that song is the first one on the playlist.
05:58Bella Ramsey.
06:00Accent.
06:02It's Midlands.
06:03It's sort of a mixture of North and South.
06:06But I guess people are Googling that because people think I'm American a lot.
06:10I meet people even now, and they're like,
06:13Whoa!
06:13I didn't know you were British.
06:15How many accents are in the UK?
06:17Oh, my gosh.
06:17So many accents in the UK.
06:19You drive 20 minutes, and there's a whole other accent.
06:22Everywhere I go and film with there's a different accent.
06:25It's really hard not to just, like, mimic it.
06:28It's really hard.
06:29I was just in Australia, and I was probably offending people
06:32by doing a bad Australian accent all the time.
06:34It's just so easy to do when everyone around you is saying, like,
06:38Fear Dinkum.
06:39In G'day, mate.
06:40Actually, I only heard G'day, mate once.
06:42But, yeah, accents.
06:44Bella Ramsey accent.
06:45It's a good Google.
06:46Fear Dinkum.
06:50Bella Ramsey.
06:51Green suit.
06:52Well, I wore a green suit for season two premiere of The Last of Us.
06:57That's a fairly recent Google.
06:59That was my favourite suit I've ever worn.
07:01Bella Ramsey green suit.
07:03I don't think I've worn a green suit any other time.
07:05It must have gone down well.
07:07Bella Ramsey got character.
07:09Bella Ramsey got character.
07:11No, Game of Thrones character.
07:12That's what the GOT stands for, I reckon.
07:15I play Lyanna Mormont, and I kill the giant.
07:19Spoiler if you haven't seen it.
07:20But you should have seen it by now.
07:22You can't get mad at spoilers.
07:23The show's been out.
07:24I wouldn't have been an actor if I didn't know that was something that I wanted to do.
07:28And then I ended up getting auditions through this television workshop group that I was a part of.
07:32And then it was my first day on set.
07:34I was like, oh, this is really cool.
07:36And I wanted to, like, do it forever.
07:37And thankfully, I'm still going for now.
07:41Bella Ramsey.
07:43It's weird saying my name so much.
07:45Hilda.
07:45Oh, whenever I meet a Hilda fan, it makes my day.
07:49Hilda is an animation that is on Netflix.
07:52I've done, that was my third job I ever got.
07:55I did Game of Thrones, The Worst Witch, and Hilda.
07:57There are so many shows on Netflix, and Hilda is one that I think is quite underground.
08:03Like, if your algorithm is kind enough to have it pop up, then, like, you're into it and you're hooked.
08:08But I think that it's one of those ones that if you know about it, like, you know about it and love it.
08:12And if you don't, then I don't know.
08:14I just feel like it feels very special to me when people know me from Hilda.
08:18Because it's also just my voice.
08:19So it's funny when people, like, know that it's me and they're like, oh, we're such big Hilda fans.
08:22I'm like, whoa, that's so crazy.
08:24You've just been, like, listening to me speak as this character in your living room.
08:29Like, that's so cool.
08:30Bella Ramsey outfits, courtesy of Fabio Mediato, my stylist.
08:37This is a Fabio special.
08:38In my everyday life, I'm not quite stylish.
08:40I just wear, like, old T-shirts and jogging bottoms and dirty Adidas original trainers.
08:49Although, I'm branching out.
08:51Trying some new shoes recently.
08:53That's cool.
08:54This?
08:55Van Gogh.
08:56Van Gogh?
08:57How would you say it?
08:58I think I say Van Gogh.
08:59It's probably wrong.
09:00Van Gogh.
09:02I got hair on it.
09:05Bella Ramsey time.
09:07I have a really great experience.
09:10I played a pregnant heroin addict, which I have no experience of being pregnant or being a heroin addict.
09:16So it was very interesting for me to get into that and sort of learn about all of that.
09:24I had an incredible time.
09:25And the other people in that show as well.
09:27It was, like, me, Jodie Whittaker, and Tamara Lawrence.
09:31And we all just had the best time in prison together.
09:37In Liverpool.
09:39Who does Bella Ramsey play in The Worst Witch?
09:44I play Mildred Hubbell.
09:45Well met.
09:47I'm a witch who's not from a witching family.
09:51But then I find out in, like, the third season that I am from a witching family after all.
09:56I always have one sock that's, like, up to my knee and one sock that's, like, by my ankles.
10:00And I have two long braids.
10:02But now my hair's all chopped off.
10:03So none of that anymore.
10:05The Worst Witch was, like, three years of my life, basically.
10:09Like, three summers.
10:1016 weeks over the summer.
10:11I'd been on Game of Thrones before.
10:13So I sort of learned all this new language, like, set language on that.
10:18That then I loved being able to, like, impart that knowledge on.
10:22Because for most of the other kids, it was their first job.
10:25It was basically mine as well, apart from Game of Thrones.
10:27But I sort of had this, like, roster of, like, new language and new information that I'd learned from being on Game of Thrones.
10:32And I loved being able to be, like, if I had a question about, like, what does this mean?
10:36I loved knowing the answer and being able to be, like, turning is the same thing as rolling.
10:41Stuff like that.
10:42It was hard work.
10:43Really hard work.
10:44And a lot of people relate to mojo trouble, which is nice.
10:47When was Bella Ramsey cast as Ellie?
10:502020.
10:56Two.
10:57Three.
10:57One.
10:592021.
11:00And Ellie did feel like someone that was already, like, inside of me.
11:04Which is a bit weird, and I don't really, I still don't really understand what that means, even when I say it, but I know that it feels true.
11:11Bella Ramsey.
11:13Music video.
11:14Well, I think this is probably in reference to a music video that I just did recently for a band called Girlband, who are from Nottingham.
11:23That's where I'm from.
11:24They released this song called Not Like The Rest, and I did the music video.
11:27And it was really fun.
11:28We just, like, filmed in Nottingham City Centre for a day.
11:31Is there a city in the UK that has the best that you can see?
11:33London gets, obviously, has incredible music, but I feel like the north of England doesn't get enough attention.
11:40It's like Manchester has sick music.
11:44This is a call out to the north of England, and when people go to England, they're like, oh, if you ask anyone who's American or from elsewhere, have you been to the UK?
11:53They're like, yeah, I went to London.
11:54I'm like, you've got to get out of London.
11:56But yes, go to London.
11:57London's incredible.
11:58But then there's so much.
11:59You go, like, 20 minutes outside of London, a bit further than that, maybe like an hour, and you're in the most beautiful, like, rural countryside.
12:05And then going further north to Manchester, it's also beautiful, great music.
12:09Yeah, that's my little UK pitch.
12:13That's it.
12:14Thanks for Googling me.
12:16I hope that this answered some of your questions.
12:19You can watch this instead of relying on Google.
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