![]() ![]() Johnson also said it’s been a “surreal” experience watching someone else play a character she once portrayed. “Being able to still be a part of this story and this world and to also be the first character that fights for this character to live means the world,” Johnson said. ![]() She explained that voice and motion-capture actors involved in video games “aren’t usually brought along to be part” of a TV or film adaptation. Johnson told The Hollywood Reporter that she was “shocked” and “burst into tears” when she was offered the role of Anna in the HBO adaptation. ![]() Fans of the show and the game will know that Ellie grows very attached to this knife. ![]() Marlene then agrees to carry out Anna’s dying wish: that Marlene kill her, save Ellie and give Ellie Anna’s knife. Anna is holding baby Ellie with one hand, singing to her, and holding a knife to her own neck with the other.Īnna lies to Marlene and tells her Ellie’s umbilical cord was cut before she was bitten. Later in the episode, Ellie’s mother’s name is revealed to be Anna, when her lifelong friend Marlene (Merle Dandridge, who voiced the same character in the game) finds Anna in the farmhouse’s nursery. Marlene (Merle Dandridge) holds baby Ellie in Episode Nine of “The Last of Us.” Neil Druckman, the game’s creator and the show’s co-creator, told The Hollywood Reporter that this scene is a “hint” as to Ellie’s immunity, and provides “some theories as to why Ellie immune, even though we don’t answer that conclusively.” This origin story is not included in the game, and introduces brand-new information to fans of the game and the show alike. This is when viewers realize they’re watching the story of Ellie’s birth, and that the scene might vaguely explain Ellie’s unique immunity to the cordyceps infection. She then picks up her newborn, and as she holds the crying infant, she seems to instantly grasp her daughter’s personality. Realizing this, she quickly cuts her umbilical cord with the same knife she used to kill the zombie, in an attempt to keep the infection from spreading to her baby. But she notices that she’s been bitten, which means she’s gotten the show’s cordyceps infection and will soon turn into a zombie. Soon after, Johnson’s character gives birth. ![]()
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