
When he couldn't make that idea work, he considered adding Anna's backstory to the game as a DLC, similar to the mall date between Ellie and Riley.

In an interview with Variety, Druckmann revealed he has written Anna's story to turn it into an animated short. In fact, Johnson is one of the recurring cast members of the Critical Role Dungeons & Dragons podcast, also acting as president of the show's charity branch, the Critical Role Foundation. She remains Terra in Teen Titans Go!, voices Tulip Olsen and Lake on Infinity Train, and voices Pike in Prime Video’s The Legend of Vox Machina. However, Johnson is far from being a star of the past, as she keeps getting involved with some of the most exciting ongoing projects.

So, any child who grew up watching cartoons in the late 1990s and early 2000s owes Johnson a lot of their best memories – this writer included. Johnson was Gretchen Grundler on Recess, Terra on Teen Titans, and Gwen Tennyson in the Ben 10 franchise. Johnson was part of beloved films such as What Women Want and The Help and series like The Killing and Blindspot, but most of us know the star through her work as a voice actress. They needed to be there.A veteran star across film, television, and video games, Johnson began her prolific acting career as a child in the TV show Growing Pains. It's a dramatic genetic connection between the game and the show. "Ashley Johnson is in her 30s and clearly not gonna play a 14-year-old girl, but it was important for us to find space for them because they matter. Mazin admitted that their inclusion was not simply fan service but an important " connection" to what came before. However, the two actors will appear in the show as two completely different characters.

With Johnson in her 30s and Baker " so physically different from Joel," it is clear why they needed to be replaced. The creator pointed out that Joel and Ellie's voice actors, Troy Baker and Ashley Johnson, respectively, bear no physical resemblance to their on-screen counterparts. Speaking with EW, Mazin explained why a pair of voice actors from the original The Last of Us video game were cast in the popular new show.
