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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. But after that, it was largely trusting the process for where the story was headed.
“Before I got sent the script or anything they wanted to meet and just explain the tone,” Purnell said. “And I’m really glad they did, because I don’t think I would have got the part or played her the right way had they not, on that first meeting, said, ‘This is basically Ned Flanders in the apocalypse.’ It’s so good. Immediately, I was in. And then reading the script, it just changes the way you hear her voice in your head.”
Moten was offered the chance to get more info and actually turned it down.
“They tried to tell me some things, and I said, ‘Please don’t!’” he said. “Working in television, you have to surrender a little bit, too. Like, I personally, Aaron, doesn’t know what he’s doing tomorrow, exactly, and neither does the character. You sort of have to surrender to that sense of work, that type of schedule, especially with the speed that you have to shoot something the scope of this, you know, you kind of have to be able to ride with it.”
