The stars of Prime Video’s Fallout walked the dusty red carpet for the apocalypse-themed Season 2 premiere at Disney Studios
Fallout season 2 is almost upon us. Well, it’s almost upon you – I caught the first two episodes at the Sydney premiere at Hoyts Entertainment Quarter, but I’m sworn to silence – embargoed under threat of… I dunno, an upset PR flack. Surely Bezos wouldn’t bring all his litigious weight to bear on a lowly hack for using “any review language or spoilers”. I’m not 100% sure what either of those are. Especially the first one. Can I say it’s good? Best not risk it.
But the event was fun, mind you – I think we’re on safe ground there – helped in no small part by the presence of stars Walton Goggins, Ella Purnell, and Aaron Moten, who were on hand to press the flesh, grant some lucky ducks in the screaming throng of fans a special moment or two, and participate in a Q&A moderated by David Campbell. And, you know, there was an open bar, which always helps things long.
In as quick an infodump as humanly possible, Fallout is and adaptation of the hugely popular video game franchise and follows the exploits of Goggins’ gunslinging, mutated Ghoul; Purnell’s naïve but morally upright Vault Dweller, Lucy; and Moten’s conflicted techno-knight, Maximus, as they battle their way though a 50s-flavoured post-apocalyptic landscape. It is, have no doubt a good time (I am speaking specifically and solely about the first season here, Prime Video).
Kicking off their global publicity tour to promote the upcoming season, the three talked about their previous experiences in Australia. For Moten, this marks his first trip our way, while Purnell revealed she’d backpacked up the east coast on the age of 18, and Goggins reminisced about a scuba diving trip to the Whitsundays, because he’s cool like that.
As for the upcoming season of Fallout, Goggins noted that, “They’re on this apocalyptic kind of road trip, right? And one is an optimist – I’ll let you decide which one that is – and the other is a nihilist. And either she’ll become more like me, or I’ll become more like her, or we’ll meet someplace in the middle and become something completely different.”
For her part, Ella Purnell observed that for Lucy, the stakes are very personal. As revealed in the climax of the last season, one of the show’s Big Bads is her very own father, Vault Overseer Hank MacLean, played by deadset legend Kyle MacLachlan.
“She wants to find her dad,” she said. “And I think she has these big ideas of bringing him to justice and what that looks like for Lucy is the right thing to do, very ‘golden rule’ of her. But the more time she spends in the wasteland and the more time she spends with this guy, how much is her definition of justice going to change?”
As for Aaron Moten’s Maximus, the events of last season saw him calved off from the main storyline and embroiled in the thorny internal politics of the Brotherhood Of Steel.
“We’ve only seen one faction so far, so we get some more voices at the table, and we get to see Maximus make some choices to ripple through the wasteland.”
Fallout season 2 premieres on Prime Video on December 17.
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