During the Fallout global press conference, the cast revealed more about the characters who will bring Prime Video’s original live-action series to life. We’ve already seen the fantastic vault dweller, and now we’re getting more insight into them, their factions, and how their growth over the series will inform it.
The Fallout original TV show is directed by Jonathan Nolan and Wayne Yip and written by Geneva Robertson-Dworet and Graham Wagner. Robertson-Dworet also serves as creator and showrunner, and Bethesda’s Todd Howard serves as executive producer. Read below for a full breakdown of the Fallout cast and the characters they play.
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Lucy
Played by Ella Purnell, Lucy is our vault dweller. Lucy is innocent, naive, and privileged after spending her whole life in Vault 33. Wearing the iconic vault dweller blue and yellow uniform in the Fallout live-action series, she steps out into the Wasteland to fulfill the Vault’s true meaning. Or at least the altruistic goal she was taught. However, instead of meeting new people she can save, everyone she meets is trying to kill her.
Purnell explained that the fun of her character was watching her grow over time as she gained experiences in the Wasteland that changed who she was. In the trailer alone, you can see her trajectory charted from a nice woman trying just to restart civilization out of what is left of the world to exiting a shack covered in blood with bits of scrapped armor. With the trailer alone and the little information, Lucy is a journey that promises to thrill.
Maximus
Played by Aaron Moten, Maximus is a member of the Brotherhood of Steel. In the trailer, when asked why he joined, he responds, “To hurt those who hurt me.” Morten explained during the press conference that Maximus is on the opposite end from Lucy. Where she is innocent and naive, Maximus has a moral ambiguity that was forced on him by spending his entire life in the irradiated Wasteland.
Like Lucy, who is redefining who she is, Maximus is finding out who he is, too. Does the moral ambiguity stick? Or does he learn to be more empathetic? Only time will tell.
Cooper Howard, The Ghoul
Walton Goggins is the character actor of a generation, and he’s perfect to bring The Ghoul, Cooper Howard, to life. The trailer opens with an uniradiated Cooper selling Vaults for Vault-tec. Goggins is the voice that pulls you through the trailer, and as he explained during the press conference, he is also the voice pulling audiences and the characters through the series.
Likening the Ghoul to the poet Virgil from Dante’s Inferno, Goggins tells us about our shepherd through the hellscape that is the Wasteland. The Ghoul is a bounty hunter and an iconic one at that. He is pragmatic, ruthless, has a set of moral codes, and has a wicked sense of humor. A complicated figure, the Ghoul’s past life as Cooper Howard is also shown as a bridge between the past and the present. He survived the war, experienced it, and now he’s guiding us all through it. We will see how the world was and how it got to where it is with him.
Meet the Rest of the Fallout Cast
Below is the Fallout cast list according to IMDb.
- Moises Arias as Norm
- Johnny Pemberton as Thaddeus
- Kyle MacLachlan as Overseer Hank
- Leer Leary as Davey
- Dave Register as Chet
- Rodrigo Luzzi as Reg
- Annabel O’Hagan as Steph
- Michael Esper as Bud Askins
- Cherien Dabis as Birdie
- Christopher Parker as Sherriff Rex
- Harry Sutton Jr. as Dr. Edmunson
- Sheila Head as Marianne
- Daniel J. Martin as Dervin
- Michael Emerson as Wilzig
- Dale Dickey as Ma June
- Matty Cardarople as Huey
- Mitzi Akaha as Rink
- Rafi Silver as Robert House
- Cameron Cowperthwaite as Monty
- Mike Doyle as Mr. Spencer
Prime Video’s Original series Fallout, based on the iconic Bethesda Softworks video game, will be released on April 11, 2024, exclusively on Prime Video.
