‘Fallout’ Stars Didn’t Know Season 1 Finale Cliffhanger When They Signed on to Amazon’s Video Game Adaptation
variety.comJennifer Maas TV Business Writer When Walton Goggins, Ella Purnell, Aaron Moten and Moisés Arias signed on to Jonathan Nolan’s “Fallout” TV series at Amazon‘s Prime Video, the actors didn’t know where the adaptation of the popular Bethesda Game Studios franchise was headed.
And that was fine by them, after reading the initial scripts that revealed the post-apocalyptic world their respective characters, Cooper Howard/The Ghoul, Lucy, Maximus and Norm, were surviving in. “We got two episodes.
Two episodes were written before we started to understand the tone. And then [the scripts] would dribble out,” Goggins said during a recent panel hosted by Variety.
In fact, Goggins said the finale script wasn’t delivered until a few days before filming. “Yellowjackets” star Purnell says she had a prep meeting with show creators Graham Wagner and Geneva Robertson-Dworet ahead of even auditioning for “Fallout” to get a sense of the vibe they were going for with the show.
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