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Earlier this year, Maisie Williams, star of Game of Thrones, said on Twitter that she was interested in portraying Ellie in the film adaptation of The Last of Us. Neil Druckmann also dropped her name during the panel at Pax. In an interview with IGN, she confirmed that talks were still ongoing, and that she may get the part indeed:
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The actress, best known for her role as Arya Stark, explained that there's currently no script so there's still a way to go before anything's confirmed, but as far as she's concerned "it's looking like, 'yes'".
There was a whole thing that went on Twitter [of fans suggesting me for the role]," she explained. I didnt know a lot about [the game]. I Googled it. Ashley Johnson who did Ellies voice [fans] asked her what she thought of me and she said, Thats pretty much my dream. I dont follow her but I was silently stalking her wondering what she thought of all this.
"And when I got my American agent and he said, If theres anything you want to do, let us know Americas got such that can-do attitude. That was the first time I came to him with anything. So he said hed set us up for a meeting next time Im in America. And they did. So I had a meeting with [producer] Sam Raimi and [game director] Neil Druckmann. And they said theyd love if you would moderate the panel at Comic-Con, but youd need to watch the walk-through and know your s*** because there are massive fans of this and we wouldnt want it to go wrong.
"I was doing so much work for Thrones that I didnt want to half-arse do it, so I said Im not going to [moderate]. They said fine, but theyre gonna announce they had talks. So the way it was left is they want me to do it, and I want to do it. But theres no script, no director, and no anything else. So at this moment, its looking like, Yes, but its still such early days. If they make it in 30 years, they cant have a 40-year-old Ellie. So at the moment, its looking good, and Id love to do it. Hell yeah.
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