‘The Last Of Us’ Costar Bella Ramsey Talks About Her Gender Identity In Frank Interview
Bella Ramsey isn’t going to be pigeonholed. Particularly when it concerns gender identity.
Ramsey gained his first fan club by playing Lyanna Mormont, the young strong ruler. HBO’s Game of Thrones Between 2016-2019 Now, she’s set to star in HBO’s heavily promoted series The Last of UsThe dystopian thriller “The Game” is based upon a videogame.
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Ramsey, 19 years old, is revealing himself during the promotional attention ahead of the series’ debut.
“I guess my gender has always been very fluid,” she said in a recent interview with The New York Times. “Someone would call me ‘she’ or ‘her’ and I wouldn’t think about it. But I knew that if someone called me ‘he,’ it was a bit exciting,” she said.
When filling out forms, Ramsey checks the “nonbinary” option rather then “he” or “she.” “Nonbinary” means not identifying exclusively as male or female, or not identifying with any gender, according to the National Center for Transgender Equality.
“I’m very much just a person,” she said. “Being gendered isn’t something that I particularly like But in terms of pronouns, I really couldn’t care less.”
The HBO series could further grow the admiring cult around Ramsey’s strong portrayal in the role. Game of Thrones. In The Last of UsRamsey is escorted by a smuggler across the United States post-apocalyptic after a deadly plague.
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