Summary

Fallout
Star Ella Purnell feels Lucy’s moral values will struggle in Season 2 as she faces betrayals and trauma in the wasteland.

Fallout
, a drama series set in post-apocalyptic Los Angeles, follows survivors in a world shaped by nuclear war and mutations.
Purnell, worried about typecasting, jokes about playing characters who resort to cannibalism for survival in
Fallout
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Yellowjackets
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Ella Purnell, who stars as Lucy in Prime Video’s Fallout, feels her character will struggle to hold on to her moral values in the upcoming second season. While the rest of the world has been shaped by the harshness and cruelty of surviving in an irradiated wasteland, Lucy was raised in the safety of an underground vault, and exudes optimism, peace, and happiness when she sets out into the wasteland to find her missing father. Season 1 tried breaking the character down, forcing Lucy into numerous violent situations – several times at the mercy of Walton Goggins’ The Ghoul – but, for the most part, the character remained true to herself.

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Ella Purnell recently sat down with The Hollywood Reporter to discuss the eagerly-anticipated second season of Fallout, which is currently in development. During the interview, Purnell discussed her hopes for the character in Season 2, as Lucy and The Ghoul venture to New Vegas in search of Hank McLean (Kyle MacLachlan). “I really don’t have any autonomy over this character. I do what the writers write for me, and I always find a way to make it work, and I always find a way to justify it,” Purnell started off by saying. While she doesn’t have full creative control over the character, the actress believes that Lucy’s entire world has been turned upside down, and wonders how anyone could hold onto their original beliefs following what she’s been through. Purnell continued:

“But in my head, I don’t know. Part of me thinks she’ll always be Lucy, and the other part of me wonders how anyone can survive that betrayal and hurt and trauma. Her entire world has just been ripped apart and ripped at the seams. It crumbled in front of her in a second. She’s always had such strong core beliefs, but they were rooted in her dad. So, when you take away that base foundation, I just don’t know how she’ll fare, I just don’t know.”

Ella Purnell Is Worried About a Hilarious Typecasting

Before Fallout, Ella Purnell’s biggest role was in Showtime’s Yellowjackets. While both shows have some vast differences, one set in the year 2277 after a nuclear war, and the other following a girls’ soccer team after a plane crash, they have both resulted in Purnell having to act out a particularly disturbing thing. If Ella Purnell had a nickle for everytime she had to eat human meat on a TV show, she’d have two nickles, but it’s weird that it’s happened twice.

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“The nature of survivalist dramas is that cannibalism is probably going to cross your mind at some point when you are completely out of options,” Purnell said. Both shows required Purnell’s character to resort to cannibalism in order to survive. As a result, Purnell has hilariously become worried about being typecast as the “cannibalism chick.” Purnell said:

“And what’s so funny is that I didn’t put two and two together with Yellowjackets and Fallout. I never, ever was like, ‘Oh God, what are people going to say about my cannibalism trend?’ It never occurred to me until I started doing press, and I was like, ‘Oh yeah, I guess it’s a thing.’ So, hopefully, we don’t make a habit of this. I don’t want to get typecast as the cannibalism chick.”

Fallout
is available to stream on Prime Video.