The jaw-dropping finale of Fallout’s first season was the culmination of an impressive eight episodes, but it wasn’t easy to bring that to the screen. That’s according to Ella Purnell, who plays Lucy in the series.
In an interview with GQ, the actress explains that the scene where Lucy discovered the secrets her father Hank (Kyle MacLachlan) was keeping went through a metamorphosis. When they first shot the scene, Lucy’s reaction to seeing her mother as a ghoul didn’t quite match the production’s intent:
“We ended up reshooting the scene because originally we all had a different idea of how that ending was going to go. Originally we shot that I would kill my mother as this very emotional moment with a lot of tears and wailing. And it just didn’t feel right. We felt that if she was going out into the Wasteland, she needs to be a changed woman and maybe her grief needs to give way to something more hardened.”
Accepting the fact that her father is not the benevolent overseer she thought is a huge emotional shock. Hank’s decision to destroy Shady Sands with his mother inside is a cross no child should have to bear.
In the end, the production opted to portray Lucy’s experience in silence. For much of the scene, the trauma overwhelms Lucy as she witnesses her family’s transformation. Her act of shooting her ghoul mother cements her fate as a citizen of the Wasteland. She has been hardened by the brief time she spent outside the Vault.
Much of the finale is open to interpretation as viewers eagerly await the confirmed second season. But there’s no doubt about the camaraderie surrounding Lucy and the Ghoul (Walton Goggins) in this highly anticipated new installment expected to release sometime in 2025.
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