- Bella Ramsey is “hesitant” to share her own labels with the public.
- She speaks openly about her experiences as a genderqueer person.
- She told ELLE magazine: “I have labels that I assign to myself.”
The actor, 19, who portrays Ellie in HBO’s version of “The Last of Us,” has spoken openly about her experiences as a genderqueer person and how she reacts to various pronouns, but she isn’t in a position to “publicly talk about” her emotions.
She told ELLE magazine: “I have labels that I assign to myself. It’s just, publicly, I am hesitant to talk about what those are, because there are still some things that — I’m, I guess, becoming comfortable with and figuring out.
“Actually, I think I’ve probably figured it out, but becoming comfortable with and owning, I suppose.
“I think people who can publicly talk about who they are, I think that’s incredibly brave and I look up to those people, but it’s not the sort of thing that I can do yet, really.”
Although the star – who uses she/her and they/them pronouns – has enjoyed her journey of self-discovery, she has a difficult with labels in general.
She explained: “I think, in the past, I’ve had maybe a slightly unhealthy relationship with labels.
The label of anorexia is one that I totally — it was like a comfort blanket for me. I held onto it too much.
“So, I’m wary of them, but I also think that I, in many ways, don’t have the guts to assign a label to myself.”
The former ‘Game of Thrones’ star opened up on gender last week and insisted she doesn’t “particularly like” being gendered.
She said: “I guess my gender has always been very fluid. Someone would call me ‘she’ or ‘her’ and I wouldn’t think about it.
“But I knew that if someone called me ‘he’ it was a bit exciting. I’m very much just a person.
“Being gendered isn’t something that I particularly like. But in terms of pronouns, I really couldn’t care less.”
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