Ellen Page critical of look-alike character in ‘The Last of Us’

Praise for the recently released game The Last of Us has been pretty universally positive, scoring 95 on Metacritic and was reported as having the biggest game launch of the year, selling 1.3 million copies in its first week.

One person who isn’t singing all of the game's praises, however, is actress Ellen Page. If you’ve played the game, you may notice more than a passing resemblance between her and Ellie, one of the main characters from The Last of Us. But according to Page, that likeness is being used without her consent.

In a Reddit AMA (Ask Me Anything) question-and-answer session, Page was asked about how she enjoyed acting in another upcoming Sony exclusive, Beyond: Two Souls, and if she would have taken the role of Ellie if she had been given the chance. It was prefaced with how many people had spotted the similarities between Ellie and Page, both in appearance and how she speaks.

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Page didn’t really touch on the questions, as the issue of Ellie’s likeness clearly touched a nerve:

I guess I should be flattered that they ripped off my likeness, but I am actually acting in a video game called Beyond Two Souls, so it was not appreciated.

As Wired points out, Page doesn’t specify that it was her who didn’t appreciate it, so it may have been an aggravation of Quantic Dream, the developer of Beyond: Two Souls. In fact, Page doesn’t seem to hold much resentment at all outside of the one comment during the AMA, despite the fact that media (yes, including us) have leapt on her comment. Just prior to the AMA, Page was helping to draw attention to the actress who actually played Ellie:

The character was also changed from the initial design, which looked even more like Page, so it better resembled Johnson.

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