Bella Ramsey on Chicken Run 2, neurodivergence and being a child actor on Game of Thrones: ‘The thing I hated most was being patronised’

Sign up to our free IndyArts newsletter for all the latest entertainment news and reviews Sign up to our free IndyArts newsletter Sign up to our free IndyArts newsletter SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. “I’d go from murdering a ‘clicker’” – the fungus-infected humans marauding around a desolate America – “to running around Chicken land the next day. “It’s one of the reasons why little me really loved the first film.” open image in gallery Free ranger: Molly storms out in a scene from ‘Chicken Run: Dawn of the Nugget' Though they turned 20 this September, Ramsey is still often cast as young teenagers – in The Last of Us, for instance, or as the 14-year-old lead of the medieval England-set comedy Catherine Called Birdy. “I wasn’t intimidated by going onto a set with a load of people twice, three times my age,” Ramsey says. Until I meet people who say they’ve been impacted by something that I’ve said, feeling seen – if I’ve been open about something like neurodivergence, or gender or whatever – that makes it worth it.” open image in gallery Lost in the wilderness: Ramsey in ‘The Last of Us' Ramsey adds that they never wanted these things “to be a big deal”; given their age and growing prominence in the industry, headlines and noise were inevitable.