Fallout cast talk success behind the blockbuster series as familiar faces join for Season 2
A post-apocalyptic hit series has clocked 100 million views worldwide, but its cast members say the real surprise lies in what Season 2 delivers.
The video-game inspired series Fallout is one of Prime Video’s most successful shows, clocking up a cool 100 million views since Season 1 premiered in April 2024.
With Season 2 set to launch on the streamer on December 17, the cast of the post-apocalyptic adventure series, Walton Goggins, Ella Purnell and Aaron Moten, visited Sydney to promote the adrenaline-packed new season.
During their visit, they expressed to news.com.au their shock at how successful the series is both in Australia and globally, especially now with big-name Hollywood stars joining the cast.
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“You can’t think about it in those terms because then all of a sudden you just wilt under the weight of that pressure,” Goggins told news.com.au of the show’s mammoth success. “We did Season 1 from our hearts and we put everything into it and we start over from scratch with Season 2.”
“It’s nice to be a small part of this global community in this global experience, but the only thing that we can control is the work that we put into it every single day. And everything we did was with love and with intention and with humour and with satire and with consequences. I’m proud of it. I’ve seen five episodes and I’m really proud of what it has to say. I hope everybody else is too.”
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Based on one of the greatest video game series of all time, Fallout is set in a post-apocalyptic world destroyed by a nuclear apocalypse more than 200 years ago.
The series follows a young woman named Lucy (played by Purnell) who lived underground in Vault 33 since the explosion but is forced to emerge into the harsh surface world after her father is kidnapped from their bunker.
An adventure unfolds on the surface world as she encounters a squire named Maximus (Moten) and bounty hunter Cooper “The Ghoul” Howard (Goggins), who each have their own secret agendas.
Season 1 ends epically when Lucy discovers her dad isn’t the hero she thought he was and Season 2 sees her on a mission to hunt him down in the post-apocalyptic city of New Vegas – needless to say all while performing next-level stunts.
“I had a lot of fun. It’s kind of one of my favourite parts of this show actually, is being able to do the stunts. What I love about our team is that the stunts, of course it looks cool obviously, but they also tell a story,” she told us.
“For Lucy in particular, every single action comes from a part of her. It progresses the story. It has something to do with her character development. Every weapon that she uses is levelling up from the game. There’s so much to it. And being able to work that out and collaborate with everybody creatively about that is just an extra piece of fun.”
Other Hollywood stars want in on the fun too, with the likes of Kumail Nanjiani, Justin Theroux and Macaulay Culkin signing on for Season 2.
While little is known about the Home Alone star’s character, Theroux plays Robert House, the billionaire lead antagonist in the video games that has now been added to the TV adaptation.
“It’s really exciting to see,” Moten said of the new additions. “It’s like I see myself in someone else’s shoes when they get to walk on these sets as well. The way that they light up, it’s like, ‘Oh, this has function to it. This is built out. It’s real.’ It’s super exciting.”
Moten added that their famous new castmates “really invest” in the characters to “make it their own. And I think they all knock it out of the park.”
Goggins, who was arguably the breakout star in The White Lotus Season 3 earlier this year, says the writers are also the heroes of Season 3.
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“I would just say that it’s so unpredictable, really,” he said of the script.
“I’m familiar with the story, but in every single script that we read, it’s like… I just had to drop the script and say, ‘Are you kidding me? Oh no. Is this really happening? And what does that mean? And what are the ramifications of that? And how will that kind of play out through the rest of the season and the rest of the series if we’re so lucky?’ Yeah, it is so exciting.”
Fallout Season 2 premieres Wednesday, December 17 exclusively on Prime Video, with new episodes released weekly every Wednesday
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