
Actors Troy Baker and Ashley Johnson portrayed Joel and Ellie, respectively, through voice and motion capture, and assisted creative director Neil Druckmann with the development of the characters and story. The relationship between Joel and Ellie became the focus, with all other elements developed around it. For the first time in the company's history, Naughty Dog split into two teams while one team developed Uncharted 3: Drake's Deception, the other half developed The Last of Us. In the online multiplayer mode, up to eight players engage in cooperative and competitive gameplay.ĭevelopment of The Last of Us began in 2009, soon after the release of Naughty Dog's previous game, Uncharted 2: Among Thieves. Players use firearms and improvised weapons and can use stealth to defend against hostile humans and cannibalistic creatures infected by a mutated fungus. The Last of Us is played from a third-person perspective. Players control Joel, a smuggler tasked with escorting a teenage girl, Ellie, across a post-apocalyptic United States. Read Page’s full coming out letter in the Instagram post below.The Last of Us is a 2013 action-adventure game developed by Naughty Dog and published by Sony Computer Entertainment. THR confirmed Page will stay with the series and that Netflix is retroactively going through the first two scened to properly credit Elliot Page in the cast.

Page currently stars on the blockbuster Netflix comic book series “The Umbrella Academy,” which debuted its second season earlier this year and will return at a later date for a third season. I see you, I love you and I will do everything I can to change this world for the better.

To all trans people who deal with harassment, self-loathing, abuse and the threat of violence every day. And the more I hold myself close and fully embrace who I am, the more I dream, the more my heart grows and the more I thrive.

“I love that I am trans,” Page writes in his letter. A year before “Juno” catapulted Page to the mainstream, he appeared as the mutant Kitty Pryde in “X-Men: The Last Stand,” a role he would reprise in the sequel film “X-Men: Days of Future Past.” Page’s other acting credits include Christopher Nolan’s “Inception” and the Julianne Moore-starring lesbian drama “Freeheld.” Page got his start with breakout film roles in “Hard Candy” and “Juno,” the latter of which earned him an Oscar nomination in the Best Actress category. Diablo Cody: It ‘Horrifies Me’ That ‘Juno’ Is Viewed as Anti-Choice Amid Roe v.
