As “Fallout” Season 2 transitions the show to the Mojave Wasteland and New Vegas, the creative team also moved filming from New York to Los Angeles during a period of record-low production in the state of California.
“We were a little insulated from what had changed here. So it was a shock to us when we came back here for ‘Fallout’ and realized,” executive producer Jonathan Nolan told Variety‘s senior artisans editor Jazz Tangcay at the “Fallout” FYC event. “It’s a no-brainer to shoot here in Los Angeles and it’s just an honor for us to be able to bring the production back home. And I think the results speak for themselves.”
Based on the video game franchise of the same name, this latest “Fallout” season follows the characters along their journey through the wasteland of a post-apocalyptic world. The panel was filled with many of the show’s top stars, including Walton Goggins, Aaron Moten, Kyle MacLachlan, Justin Theroux, Francis Turner and Moisés Arias.
Four months after the Season 2 finale aired on Prime Video, Tangcay asked the cast to reflect on their characters’ evolution and what drew them to this continuation.
Moten, who plays Maximus, explained how attached he got to showrunner Geneva Robertson-Dworet’s scripts and the show’s connection to the real world: “I think we all see a chaos that seems almost beyond repair sometimes. And as much as we all would like fewer parallels between this show of ‘Fallout’ and the world that we live in, I couldn’t help but want to just experience what I think we all have a shared experience of, ‘Where do I even begin if I want to change the world?'”
