The Last of Us: Does Bella Ramsey really sing “Take On Me” in episode 4?

This very moving scene is directly taken from the video game. Explanations.

Moment suspended in episode 4 of season 2 of The Last of Us.

Ellie pushes the song in an abandoned music store, interpreting a soft and intimate version of “Take on me”, cult tube of the group A-HAin front of a Dina completely under the spell. This scene is not trivial: it is drawn directly from a video game kinematics The Last of Us Part IIand she moved to the show stars.

Isabela Mercedwho embodies Dina in season 2, confides in an interview with Variety that she literally melted into tears by discovering this sequence for the first time, when she played the PlayStation: “I did not even know at the time that I was going to play Dina, so these tears were completely pure. Music has always been a gateway to my emotions. This scene touched me for so many reasons.”

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She evokes with emotion the fact that Ellie learned the guitar with Joeland that this cover of “Take on me” acts as a form of mourning for Ellie:

“”I love that they included the fact that Ellie learned the guitar thanks to Joel. It is a happy moment of mourning, because the sorrow has so many nuances: there is sad sorrow, the one who takes you by surprise, and then the one who makes you relive the good moments with tenderness. Maybe you shed a joyful tear. “

Isabela Merced go further and explains Dina is moved “First of all because Ellie is incredibly beautiful, and that she loves her in every sense of the word. But also because she too feels the absence of Joel, through this song. And I wondered: Has Dina already heard this song before? For her, it is perhaps the first time that she has heard this masterpiece-and it is a private concert from the person they love, for the person that this person loved. “

There remains this question: does Bella Ramsey Sing and really play in this scene? The answer is yes.

“Bella is a very talented musician! She wrote his own songs over the years. We sometimes had a guitar on the set, and we made small musical sessions between two scenes. “

So much so that this moment of grace, filmed in a decoration that is both poetic and dilapidated, was very emotional for actresses: “It was a moment that I was impatient to shoot, and also very moving. The decor was magnificent, and the scene very soft, very tender, after so much darkness and losses. I was really upset that day.”

And Isabela Merced to appreciate the sobriety of the sequence in question: “I am rather the type to find that ‘less is better’. Less dialogue, it is better. If you can say it with your eyes, say it with your eyes. And less emotion on the face, or hold it, it is even better. That day, I had trouble managing this, because I wanted to keep everything in reserve.”

Yes, it’s good Bella Ramseyomnipresent and amazing in this season 2, which shakes your heart with his guitar in this overwhelming scene of episode 4 of season 2 of The Last of Usto see in France on Max.