Fallout season 2 arrives in less than two weeks on December 17, after season 1 has become one of the best live-action video game adaptations of all time. We have gotten a number of previews of the season to date, which will reprise its three leads and take place in New Vegas, the location of one of the most beloved games in the franchise (though this series is not a straight adaptation of any game).
In a new interview, we got an update about something that is not happening this season, and thank god. Ella Purnell has addressed a common notion/request/theory that at some point, her character Lucy and Walton Goggins’ The Ghoul may form a romantic relationship. Usually, fan pairings are not shot down by the cast, but this one was too weird for Purnell (via Geek Culture):
“Here’s what I would say: you guys need therapy. You can’t fix him. You can’t save him. Let it go. Let it go, hon,” but later says they “have a really beautiful thing” and “they’re both looking for the people that they love; let’s leave it at that.” Goggins said he’d never heard about this at all, which does not surprise me, given that he does not seem terribly online.
Ella Purnell is 29 and is 54, so that would be a bit of a gap. However, that kind of thing has happened to Goggins elsewhere. In The White Lotus, Amy Lou Wood, who played his love interest, was 31. Of course, there is also the fact that…she’s a human and he’s a human-turned-ghoul, so the two are practically different species and honestly, I really do not want to see anything like that play out onscreen. No thank you.
There have been a number of interesting interviews in the run-up to season 2 here, including one where Goggins reiterates what he’s said in the past about not wanting to play the games at all (via PC Gamer):
“All of a sudden, I’m looking at this world from a very different perspective… as something on a screen… I believe The Ghoul exists in the world. The best way that I can serve the fans of this game is to go to work every single day and believe the circumstances that I’m presented with.”
This was discussed ahead of season 1, where the showrunners confirmed that they did want someone who had zero connection to the games at all, so it did not influence their character, and that was Goggins. You will often see writers and actors criticized for not knowing the source material with adaptations like this (don’t get me started on all that Witcher drama), but Fallout is so good, and Goggins is so good in it that no one cares.
So, no Lucy and Ghoul hookup is coming. Purnell could be lying, but…no, not happening. And I think most of us are fine with that.
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