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Isabela Merced has nothing but praise for her co-star from the second season of “The Last of Us”, Bella Ramsey, and is giving next year’s Emmy voters a taster.

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When we last checked in with Isabela Merced about the second season of Craig Mazin and Neil Druckman‘S Pedro Pascal (Joel) and Bella Ramsey (Ellie)-actor The Last of Usshe shared Josh Horowitz on his Happy Sad Confused like her, Ramsey and Kaitlyn Dever have had to contend with criticism from some fans who trolled their roles. But this time we’re moving on to a much more positive topic – Merced talks about how impressive Ramsey is on both sides of the camera. Speaking to Deadline HollywoodMerced notes how Ramsey has found himself and how impressed she is with how Ramsey has “carried this show – especially this season.” Merced also notes how inspiring it was to work with them before making an early statement to seriously consider Ramsey for next year’s Emmy Awards.

Here’s a look at a video of Merced’s statements about Ramsey’s appearances in the upcoming second season of HBO’s The Last of Us:

The Last of Us: Craig Mazin on Season 2 and beyond

Mazin on the need for a “breaking point” for Season 2: “The story material we got from Part II of the game is much more extensive than the story material from the first game. So from the beginning we had to figure out how to tell this story over multiple seasons. You look for natural break points, and the way we planned it, the natural break point in this season was after seven episodes.”

Mazin on the possibility that they need four seasons to tell their story: “We don’t think we can tell the story in even two seasons (2 and 3) because we take our time and take interesting paths, which we did a little bit in Season 1. We think it’s almost certain that – as long as people keep watching and we can keep producing more on TV – Season 3 will be significantly bigger. And in fact, the story may require Season 4.”

Mazin on possible expansion of the characters’ storylines in season 2: “Sometimes that means we do things the same way we do them in the game, sometimes we do them differently. I think it’s fair to say we’re taking our time to delve deeper into the story and expand on certain areas. Of course there will be some things that will be expanded on, but which characters and how, we’re keeping that a secret.”

Druckmann on “Having a goal in mind” for season 2: “Our approach was that we outlined several seasons and then dove deeper into Season 2. To echo Craig’s statement, there is no filler; everything that is in there is intentional. We always have a goal in mind that we are working towards, we never meander for the sake of meandering, it is always about saying something bigger about these characters and the themes.”

Mazin on a “pretty big” episode in season 2: “Season 1 was really a 10-episode season in hours. And in Season 2, there’s certainly an episode that’s closer to – I don’t know if I’d say feature length, but pretty long. I generally like the episodes to be around an hour long, that’s a great length, I love working in that format. What we don’t want to do is, say, a seven-episode season where each episode is 90 minutes long; one reason we do seven episodes is to find that nice line.”

Season 2 is scheduled to hit HBO and Max screens in 2025. Pascal, Ramsey and Wright will be joined this season by Gabriel Luna as Tommy, Wesley Rutina-Kristin as Mary, Kaitlyn Dever as Abby, Isabela Merced as Dina, The young Mazino as Jesse, Ariela Barer as Mel, Tati Gabrielle as Nora, Spencer Lord as Owen, Jeffrey Wright as Isaac, and Daniel Ramirez as Manny. Also Catherine O’Hara also guest stars. Behind the camera, Mazin and Druckmann are supported by Peter Hoar (S01E03: “Long, Long Time”) Mark Mylod (HBO’s Consequence), Nina Lopez-Corrado (HBO’s Perry Mason), Stephen Williams (HBO’s Guardian) And Kate Herron (Loki).

HBO’s The Last of Us was written and executive produced by Mazin and Druckmann. The series is a co-production with Sony Pictures Television and is also produced by Carolyn Strauss, Jacqueline Lesko, Cecil O’Connor, Asad Qizilbash, Carter SwanAnd Evan WellsThe production companies are PlayStation Productions, Word Games, The Mighty Mint and Naughty Dog.

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