![]() However, a side-by-side comparison still shows a striking resemblance between Ellen Page and Ellie. “After delving further into the game’s narrative over the past few months, we decided to modify Ellie’s model to better reflect Ashley’s personality, and also resemble a slightly younger teen more fitting to the story,” The Last of Us creative director Neil Druckmann told IGN. While videogame characters often used to simply be actors in a sound booth providing voices, technological advances have allowed today’s developers to use actors to do what is called performance capture - the technology used in the movie Avatar - where live actors are the template for the character and don motion-capture suits to provide the action.Īctress Ashley Johnson, not Page, provided the likeness and performance capture for Ellie in The Last of Us, and the game makers have said they have given the character a slight makeover since the game’s first reveal. ![]() Page has been working with renowned videogame developer David Cage on the title, doing performance capture and providing the voice for Jodie Holmes, a young woman being pursued by the military, who is aided by a ghostlike entity named Aiden. Hamilton men home after Dominican wedding turned into prison time Actress Ellen Page is not in The Last of Us, no matter how much it might look like she is, and she's lashing out publicly at developer Naughty Dog for 'ripping off' her likeness for the game. Nadal goes down in first big shocker at Wimbledon: Cox “I guess I should be flattered that they ripped off my likeness, but I am actually acting in a videogame called Beyond: Two Souls, so it was not appreciated,” she wrote. She took part in an Ask Me Anything session on Reddit on the weekend, and took a shot at the game.Ī user named MoseoSLT wrote in and asked about the likeness, to which Page responded: ![]() When the game was first announced in 2012, many online noted that Ellie, a 14-year-old survivor, bore a striking resemblance to Page. The Last of Us came out for PlayStation 3 two weeks ago, and has received glowing review scores for its story of its two main characters, Joel and Ellie, going on a harrowing road trip across a post-apocalyptic America. It is one of the most critically acclaimed games of the year, but you’re unlikely to hear Canadian actress Ellen Page sing its praises.
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