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‘When medieval times return, I’ll be ready’: Bella Ramsey on friendship, fashion and The Last of Us

The young actor’s life has been transformed since they landed the lead role in what turned out to be a TV phenomenon. As the much-anticipated second season begins, they discuss growing up in the glare of fame

Ramsey was hardly inexperienced when they were cast: their professional debut was aged 11 as the no-nonsense Lyanna Mormont in Game of Thrones; they had also been the star of the CBBC series The Worst Witch and appeared in the BBC/HBO adaptation of His Dark Materials. I go out in my joggers, I go out in my ripped T-shirt that needs a wash. I’m sort of in denial about it Ramsey, who has an uncompromising centre-parting, dark, doll-like eyes and bow lips, has in turn had to sacrifice a quiet life living with their folks in the Midlands. Their highlights reel from those days would have included roles as a monkey, a spoilt American brat and, in a breakthrough performance aged eight, the back half of a cow (their sister, pulling sibling rank, was the front) in Jack and the Beanstalk.

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