Amazon’s Fallout TV series is currently filming its second season, but star Ella Purnell said she might steer clear of video game adaptations in future for fear of being typecast.
As reported by Popverse, the star said, “Here’s the truth, and I feel guilty saying this, but I’m not a gamer, and I don’t know how I’ve managed to land two video game adaptations that have both been good. I don’t know how that’s happened, but it has. I don’t know the answer.”
As well as playing vault dweller Lucy MacLean in Fallout, Purnell also voices Jinx in Netflix‘s League of Legends animated series, Arcane. Two roles in two adaptations of very popular video games, so it’s interesting to hear she’s not a gamer herself.
Purnell continued, “I actually think I need to stay away from video game adaptations now, because I’m going to get typecast. I’m going to be the video game girl. There are worse things to be than that, I suppose.”
Arcane has ended after its two seasons, but Fallout has only recently started filming its second, so there’s no telling how long Purnell will be playing the role of Lucy for. Macaulay Culkin is joining the cast for season two, believed to be playing “a crazy genius-type character.”
A fan-favourite character is being teased for season two, which is “Vegas-bound”. Showrunner Graham Wagner said, “Las Vegas in the world of Fallout is Robert House’s town. Robert House will be involved in season two.”
Robert House is the ruler of New Vegas in the Fallout game of the same name. It had mutliple endings, and as the show occurs after the events of the games, it seems the ending that sees House controlling New Vegas is the one the showrunners have opted for.
In other news, Grand Theft Auto 6 will be “less crude” towards minorities in the game that previous entries in the series.