Fallout Season 2: Walton Goggins Says “Every Single Corner You Look, There’s an Easter Egg”

We’re little than 2 weeks distant from the premiere of Fallout Season 2, and fans person been anxious for immoderate accusation connected however the amusement volition grip the franchise’s instrumentality to New Vegas. Well, present we person (just a few) answers.

Speaking to a packed location astatine CCXP25 successful Brazil, respective of the show’s stars including Ella Purnell, Walton Goggins, Aaron Moten, and Justin Theroux showed disconnected a caller look astatine Season 2 and fto the assemblage successful connected what fans of the crippled tin beryllium excited astir erstwhile the caller play hits Prime Video. Season 1 contained plentifulness of callbacks to the games, and it looks similar we tin expect much of that successful Season 2.

“Every azygous country you look there’s an Easter egg,” said Walton Goggins, who plays Cooper Howard, different known arsenic The Ghoul. “But nary much than House. It becomes this larger than beingness presence.”

Goggins, of people was referring to nary different than Robert House, the mysterious person of New Vegas, who is being portrayed connected the amusement by Justin Theroux. “In the video crippled we don't truly spot soma and humor House,” Theroux said. “Mr. House is (mainly on) screen. And I deliberation (Fallout producers) Geneva (Robertson-Dworet), Graham (Wagner), and Jonah (Nolan) are astute capable to beryllium like, ‘No, let's spot this feline breathing. Let's spot what helium was similar earlier the Armageddon.’ And truthful that was truly amusive conscionable from an acting position to respire beingness into that quality and spot him locomotion around. That was truly fun.”

When asked astir the challenges of bringing House to life, Theroux acknowledged wanting to respect the bequest of the quality from the game. “The situation was conscionable to marque him arsenic realized arsenic possible. Obviously not telephone it successful and not truly effort and vie with the fantastic histrion (René Auberjonois, who died successful 2019) who had already been his dependable successful the game.”

Goggins and Theroux, who are longtime friends, were excited astatine the accidental to enactment unneurotic connected screen. “I've been a instrumentality and person of Justin for a truly agelong time,” Goggins said. “We had ne'er worked together. What I was astir looking guardant to was being successful that abstraction and watching my person bash his happening and listening to him. And erstwhile helium showed up, helium brought an full satellite with him.”

“It’s benignant of similar getting invited to ticker your favourite magician bash their magic tricks,” Theroux said of Goggins. “We had a mates truly barn-burner scenes to bash unneurotic and it was truly amusive to chop those scenes.”

Fallout Season 2 streams December 17 connected Prime Video.

Michael Peyton is the Senior Editorial Director of Events & Entertainment astatine IGN, starring amusement contented and sum of tentpole events including IGN Live, San Diego Comic Con, gamescom, and IGN Fan Fest. He's spent 20 years moving successful the games and amusement industry, and his adventures person taken him everyplace from the Oscars to Japan to Buenos Aires, Argentina. Follow him connected Bluesky @MichaelPeyton