After all, that is nonetheless The Final of Us, the place nobody can actually be too joyful for too lengthy, and the episode stays true to the tragic story of Left Behind, reinterpreting the scene through which Ellie and Riley each get bitten proper after their first kiss, and Riley tells Ellie that she thinks they need to spend each final second collectively and “lose our minds collectively.” It’s a heart-wrenching scene that defines Ellie and Riley’s relationship, and each actors felt the strain of fan expectations whereas filming. “I positively felt the strain, ‘trigger I understand how vital it’s to so many individuals,” Ramsey says. “However I feel the extra that you concentrate on it on the day, it stunts any feelings, it stunts the sentiments. So, It was only a matter of letting that go a bit and simply trusting one another.” Reid agrees, saying that whereas she wished to “do the mission justice,” she additionally wished to be “open” to alter.
