Fallout has put in a lot of work to make their cast look very different in the video game adaptation than they do in real life.
Based on the video game series of the same name, Fallout takes place hundreds of years after a nuclear disaster forced people to live in fallout bunkers, known as Vaults. A young woman named Lucy (Ella Purnell) ventures outside of the Vaults in search of her missing father, encountering dangerous creatures and characters along the way.
The series also stars Walton Goggins, Aaron Moten, Kyle MacLachlan, Moisés Arias and Xelia Mendes-Jones. Fallout was renewed for a second season days after its April 2024 premiere on Prime Video. In May 2025 — ahead of the second-season premiere — the series was renewed for a third season.
“This show isn’t political in the sense that the writers of the show don’t overtly stand on a soapbox and preach,” Goggins told Deadline in December 2025. “You’re a part of a story that just so happens to dovetail very nicely into what’s going on in the world around it, and it’s just about timing more than anything else, and that’s really kind of where we find ourselves in Fallout. Luckily for us, we do it with absurdity and we do it with satire, and then we do it with real consequences.”
Goggins reflected on the line that resonated with him the most, adding, “Everyone in this show wants to change the world. They just have a different how.”
“It’s really like a pole position for where the show is, what it’s trying to say, and what the world of Fallout, the game, is saying,” he continued. “You have all of these warring factions, but not so dissimilar than the world that we live in today. People just have a different idea about what the solution is, right? We have it all individually.”
Goggins added: “The Ghoul really is the only loner here. He just wants to be with his family. But all of the other tribes, if you will, they’re just trying to [rebuild society] their way, and I think that’s just what happens in the world. On the other side of a calamity, different political parties are formed, different affiliations are made, and you just try to remake it the way that you want to see it run.”
Keep scrolling to see what the stars of Fallout look like in real life:
