‘Fallout’ Cast Break Down The Show’s Biggest Moments

First time that I walked on set,

was it felt like, like the Thunderdome, like Mad Max.

Like I actually for a second said like,

What the [bleep] are we making?

Like what is this?

Hello, GQ!

I'm Walton Goggins.

And I'm Kyle MacLachlan.

My name is Aaron Moten.

Oh gosh.

Think quick, man.

Moises. That's your name.

Yeah, I think that's the only one left.

And these are the biggest moments from Fallout Season 1.

[bright music]

[bomb explodes]

The First Bomb Drop

[ominous music]

This is in year 2077.

A lot has kind of been happening in the world.

Cooper Howard is a kid's entertainer for birthday parties.

He's there with his daughter.

It's kind of alluded to that he was somebody else,

somebody kind of famous before.

And he does this great rope trick

and it's such this beautiful, beautiful scene

that Jonathan Nolan is directing the episode.

That's right.

They're not talking a lot,

because I'm really the only person in the scene.

Alive at this point.

I'm not a hog.

Like the conversation.

To really see the world before this bomb is dropped

and it's this retro-futuristic kind of Jetsons world.

A nod to 50s Americano.

All of a sudden, this news report comes on

about the possibility of nuclear war.

Only thinking happy thoughts today.

The adults get a bit upset, they turn it off.

And I'm having a conversation with my daughter.

And then she asks me...

Is it your thumb or mine?

If you see a cloud that is smaller than your thumb, run.

If you see a cloud that's bigger than your thumb, don't run

'cause there's no bother running. Right?

And then I look. And then it just happened, man.

[bomb explodes]

[glass shatters]

I didn't realize...

Like in that moment,

that I was gonna get to experience the ending of the world

for the audience.

[Kyle] The look on your face and your reaction

to what you were seeing.

Very powerful. Was very powerful.

And I think, you know, there's a lot of times you see

nuclear explosions and things like that,

and you have a distance from it as an audience.

And in this case, I felt like it was happening.

I don't know if you all felt the same,

but it was like, I felt that terror and that moment

and what it meant.

And oh my God, all the things that you were feeling.

Beautiful job.

And being a parent and what would you,

what would you do kind of in that moment?

What was so interesting about that one moment, it happened.

We're looking at it, and then he calls for the shock wave.

And the shockwave kind of comes.

We didn't know that at the time.

We just reacted the way that we reacted.

And then he blew the glass out.

It was so visceral, you know?

Being with a child, being a parent.

Like, you know, it speaks for all of us that have children.

Then it set the tone for the whole show.

You think it's gonna be serious

and then it becomes something completely different.

[Kyle] The Wedding: Hank

Sorry. Wait a minute.

I didn't know that Christopher Walken-

He makes a brief appearance.

[Kyle] Okay. So The Wedding: Kidnapping

Where are you taking him?

To the real world.

You should see it sometime.

[Kyle] Hank is the overseer of Vault 33.

He is kind of like the mayor of this community

that has been sequestered underground.

A vault, one of many vaults that contain people

that are actually waiting for what's happened

on the surface of the planet

to finally clear up and they can return triumphantly

and restart humanity.

When we meet the vault dwellers,

we are on the cusp of the wedding of my daughter.

Played by Ella Purnell as Lucy.

It's a very big moment in the vault world,

because it means there's gonna be a mingling

of two different tribes.

So another vault is supplying the groom

and we are supplying the bride.

[vault opens]

The other vault dwellers arrive in a big ceremony.

They come in, everything seems to be going well.

My daughter is very excited to meet the young man

who she's gonna marry, who turns out to be very handsome.

It is a little bit biological.

Very biological, in fact.

It's really just, we need two people who are young

that can get together and make babies.

So what's your sperm count?

And suddenly the world gets tilted.

And you realize that this is not a wedding ceremony.

This is actually a revolt.

Well, after 200 years,

we don't know much about what's up there.

Desperation, violence, lawlessness.

What I knew about Norm was week to week,

it was script to script. You know?

I didn't know where we were heading

or what was around the next turn,

but I'd say that Norm was the only one seeing

that these vault dwellers seemed a little different than us.

And not only in their own way,

but sort of like

they might not be fitting into their clothes.

Like not what was proposed. Bad table manners.

[Moises] Yeah, bad table manners. [chuckles]

I think Norm, given the chance goes-

Checks what and how 32 was left.

Where these people came from since the door remained open.

And seeing what had happened in there seemed

like it didn't happen overnight.

They're raiders.

They have come in and they're gonna destroy this vault.

And so you see that our vault is ill-prepared

for this kind of warfare.

This is not how they were brought up.

During the course of that, my character of Hank is captured.

We don't know why he's being captured.

All we know is there's something that,

there's a vibe in there that something has gone on before.

Hank has another life and we get a sense of it,

but we don't know exactly what it is.

He says good bye to his daughter

and is dragged out of the vault.

And the vault is destroyed and left in shambles.

[vault explodes]

[Walton] About that vault.

Because Jonathan Nolan played this game a lot,

was obsessed with this game.

They covered every single detail that they possibly could.

And it was so specific, him and Howard,

about building out those vaults.

'Cause it's the first vault that we see.

[Kyle] Yes. Right?

The very first one that we go into.

First time you see life inside the vault.

And more importantly, it's the first time you see

literally the people that are going to inherit the earth.

But it really is about,

Okay, well if we can stay down here long enough,

this is the life that we know.

This is how peaceful this life is in the vault.

And we are the people that are gonna take over

the world and inherit the world.

This is also the first week.

Correct me if I'm wrong.

It's the first week of shooting anything of our show.

Yeah.

Till you guys shot all this material.

Yeah, yeah.

I came to set and watched you guys a couple of day-

Did you go there? Yeah, I did.

I mean it was, what you're talking about is amazing.

The detail in- And the set.

I mean, because I went around looking through paperwork.

And all of it has some type of data...

Interesting.

That's appropriate.

That level of detail. Yeah. That level of detail.

Loose papers that aren't getting flashed for the camera.

It's just-

Well, they wasted their time

because nobody read those papers.

[all chuckle]

[Aaron] Maximus Gets His Power Armor

[suspenseful music]

[tense music]

Oh God. Okay. I can't, I want to know-

[overlapping chatter]

Like I can't move in the hole.

The suit. Okay.

I'll tell you about the first time.

I mean we did this beautiful thing in our show where-

I don't know if you guys thought this too when reading it,

but I remember thinking like, Oh, we're not wasting time.

Most storytelling will show someone

wants something like a suit like that.

And it takes them a whole season to get it.

[Walton] Right.

It's so quick that we get to this moment

of Maximus even having the suit open

and looking and touching it and trying to climb into it.

But it was also us needing to figure out

how to make the suit work.

I mean, we had all these different versions of the suit.

We have the full six foot five stuntman suit.

We have the top half with the motorized helmets.

And then they took all your measurements for this too.

Did they do that or no?

Oh my gosh.

I mean a little, but like, they just were like,

Will it fit?

It was like getting stuffed into this thing.

I mean, I remember the first takes of me

trying to climb into the suit.

And I would force myself in

because we wanted to make the shot work.

And then I'd be sitting there like, Help me.

Yeah.

Help me out because I'm stuck.

A vertical coffin. A vertical coffin.

Yeah. It's the heaviest thing.

I mean, the other people have gotten the opportunity

to wear this suit too. And they know.

I will wear the upper half.

But the stunt gentleman, I can't remember his name.

Had the whole thing and actually had to walk.

Adam.

Adam in our first season. Yeah.

Holy smokes!

'Cause the weight of it was significant, man.

A hundred pounds, that whole suit.

I can tell you it took me two and a half hours

to go through that makeup every day.

I put that suit on one time,

and I thought that I was the one sacrificing the most.

[all laugh]

But I'm not, man.

It freaked me out. That suit freaked me out.

Well [jabbers]

Oh my God, what you went through. Geez. I mean-

Keep saying it. It was a lot.

It was a lot wasn't it?

The thing is... [sighs]

And I've never seen it,

because it's only when other people are looking at it.

Right? You guys have seen it.

'Cause I didn't think about that!

Of course we've all worked together,

but we've never talked about the nose.

I mean, is it distracting?

Because I have all the prosthetics on

up until- Except for the nose,

which is like this.

And the nose is out. Right?

And then there are-

[Kyle] There's dots. Dots.

The dots. And I've never seen-

I mean I've seen it like in the moment,

but I never thought about it from your point of view.

Is it distracting?

No, I think it works.

Because I think what we should be looking at

is that gaping hole in your face.

And what we keep seeing is the dots.

We're just like, Yo.

Is that why you never looked me in the eye?

No. I was watching footage the other day

and there was, you know,

just like when we're in the place of like,

things are fully finished

and things are not fully finished in a scene.

It like literally a cut to your face

and the nose was still there with the dots.

And I audibly screamed.

[Aaron screams]

You know? Like, What was that?

So many times,

I thought you guys were just trying to signal that,

Hey man, you got something. You got a booger in your nose.

[All] The Filly Shootout

[gun firing]

Right off. You want these cherry tomatoes but-

You got a hole in your neck.

[Aaron] You know what was really amazing

about the Filly setup?

I mean, Howard Cummings and his team did this incredible job

building in, you know, in the middle of a parking lot,

a whole city.

Jonathan Nolan even wanted to have

the ability to shoot a lot of us going

into that set for the first time.

He didn't want us to see it.

It was kind of this like weird secret

where all we could see was sort of the outside.

Sort of boundary, the wood walls of it.

So that is a lot of the footage that he uses of Ella

when she walks in for the first time.

We shot on it for how long? Three weeks, I wanna say?

Shot- Yeah, yeah, yeah.

For three weeks.

That was the centerpiece.

It was the town.

Also the first action we see.

I mean, you've worked with Tarantino.

I always called it Tarantinoesque,

where it feels a little bit like, like a trick.

You know what I mean? Like we really want to-

There's a certain color to it.

The wow factor.

Yeah, yeah, yeah. That's right.

Yeah, yeah. There's a lot of blood,

there's a lot of shooting, there's a lot of people.

[bullet explodes]

First time that I walked on set was, it felt like,

like the Thunderdome, like Mad Max

Like I actually for a second said like,

What the fuck are we making?

Yeah! Yeah!

What is this? Like this is, this is crazy!

These people are bananas!

Were you there for the jet pack stuff?

Yes, I was there for the jet pack stuff.

We had it down. That was you!

You're the one coming in to do that, man.

I mean it was like the craziest thing in the world

where Jonathan's coming over to me to explain

to me why we have like these little kids

flying around on jet packs on Earth Stage.

And I'm like, Oh yeah, yeah.

And he's like, Well the practical element there,

it's gonna move all the dirt and the dust

and everything the way it should.

And I was like, Oh yeah, no, it totally makes sense.

I also was making jokes with them of like,

Can I get in there?

Yeah. Yeah.

And it was really kinda the first time

that you, me and Ella, we all interfaced in that space.

It was the first time we were all

in the same space at one time.

Yeah. It always made me happy that your first line

in reaction to my entrance is,

You gotta be fucking kidding me.

[all laughing]

It's pretty cool. It's really great.

It's really great.

It's a magical moment.

I wish I had written that. Yeah.

[Aaron laughs]

[All] The Vaults

You know why you're in here?

'Cause I hope my sister escaped the vault.

Escape?

You and Chet put your sister in incredible danger

by helping her out that vault door.

The rad levels up there alone- Worse?

You could have gotten us all killed!

After Hank's gone, after they kidnap Hank,

and I've helped my sister get out of 33.

I think now Norm feels even more of a,

of a...

Like, emptiness.

There isn't really much to do in 33.

Your performance review has been lacks enthusiasm.

No, but that sounds accurate.

Well it's like a performance review is what they like- Yes.

In his performance review, they tell him this.

And he's like, It all makes, it makes sense.

You're depressed.

Yes.

He need therapy.

Some of some sort, but not from anyone in there.

I think the only person he can really confine in is Chet.

Chet being his cousin.

Huge. Everyone's your cousin.

Huge.

[all laughing]

But closest.

Companion Chet, he now can have a sidekick of sorts

to help him get the courage.

Maybe even help him move physical rocks.

He might be incapable of moving to check out what's in 32

and what happened.

'Cause he saw it briefly.

It's amazing, this inquisitive nature of Norms, you know?

Because we were talking the other day about

just like how we've all fallen in love

with where this storyline has gone.

But like, it's led all the way into season 2.

This desire for survival

because survival means more discovery.

If there were any survivors down here,

they probably open the door

and welcome the raiders right in.

[Moises] There is an element of me

actually hacking into the computers.

And there is a communication had with props on

how many times I'm clicking and the timing of it.

There is a choreography.

And the information you're being given.

And the information I'm being given.

I'm seeing my mom's name on the computer.

I'm seeing all this come up and that-

These are lies.

These are-

You're starting to understand

that this is yeah, the world that you thought you knew

is not really the world that is in reality.

Right.

Storming back to 32, now we gotta check what's in 31.

Last vault that connects all these three.

Trying to understand how or why 31 is so special.

One of the wonderful things about this show

is all of our guest stars.

Chris Parnell was just incredible.

But seeing him as a Cyclops fully finished

was a different experience.

Could he see that he has-

[overlapping chatter]

Oh yeah. He had his full eyes there.

But he had this like one little eyebrow

in the middle of his head.

And dots everywhere.

You have the- Like your four dots?

Oh my God. Dots everywhere

to put this thing together.

Because they wanted to let him express.

So that they could take all of that information

and turn it into the Cyclops.

Why didn't they give me that option? But I'm just kidding.

[Kyle laughing]

[Moises] The vaults are a big mystery in themselves.

[Aaron] Yes. Almost every vault has an experiment.

You know, a creature that we've seen earlier in the series.

We sort of see like an origin-esque to it.

The horrifying discovery of that for Lucy

leads her to feel like she's in total danger in this vault.

And I think when our characters meet back up in the vault,

as I see her with a bag over her head

being dragged through the hallway,

and I have that moment of

Do I stay and watch my 'I Love Lucy Episode'

or do I go save Lucy?

Again, it's that beautiful thing.

Graham and Geneva creating this circumstance where really

you are meeting someone who's been

in the Wasteland their entire lives.

And like you've given him his first hot shower. Comfort.

[Aaron] Yeah. You know?

There was this funny scene of walking down the hallway

and stopping just a random vault dweller

to ask him what caviar is.

Like, I'm just like,

What is this?

I'm so in love.

[Walton chuckles]

[All] The Beginning

[vault opening]

[Moises] So now that he has discovered

a sort of mystery in these vaults,

he communicates with 31

and goes face to face with the vault door.

And gets it to open.

[Person] Oh, he's gonna find out.

[suspenseful music]

[Moises] We now see that these people in Cryopods.

And that is where my dad's from.

I thought I was from Tulsa.

Shit. Goddamn, I'm from Cryopod!

Oh well, nevermind.

With the flashbacks of course that we talked about,

that we go into.

And they realize,

Oh, he's been around for a long, long time.

Wow.

How long I've been awake is the other question though.

We haven't seen Hank now, we saw him in the first episode

and we haven't seen him.

Now we're finally at the end of the season, episode eight.

And he's- You realize he's been kidnapped

and he's been taken and he's brought to this location,

which turns out to be the remnants of Los Angeles.

We're actually up at the Griffith Observatory,

which is beautifully rendered.

Looks like it's been completely just destroyed.

Lucy!

Dad.

And you realize that he's done some bad things. [chuckles]

Which comes out-

And he's been captured by the head of the rebellion

that has come and taken over the vault-Moldaver.

And they have history.

Hank is-

First of all, he's very proud

that she actually made the journey,

but he is also really freaked out

because he's gonna have to try to talk his way out of this.

Meanwhile, there is a feral ghoul sitting in a table

who happens to be Hank's wife and Lucy's mother.

Although she doesn't discover that

until well into the scene.

It's a huge amount of discovery for all of the actors,

particularly for Lucy.

There is a back and forth dynamic and screaming and yelling,

and then the ghoul makes his entrance.

Your daughter said her last name was MacLean. Well,

I just couldn't believe that it was the MacLean.

And peppered in all of this is the flashback

to him listening to his wife

and meeting you for the first time in the office.

Yes. So that you realize

that these two people have all of this history together.

They were both around before the bombs were dropped.

I'm sitting there in my wife's office

listening to her talk to these men and realizing that,

Oh my God, my wife is one of the principal architects

for the ending of the world.

And then I lose all sense of time and space

and it is soul crushing and shattered.

And then I walk into the room and I have my gun.

I walk in and I look so fucking cool.

And I just walk across the room.

And I pull up my gun and I say, Where's my fuckin' family?

And then Kyle flies off.

And then I have a brief conversation with Ella.

Invite her to go on this journey with me.

The guy that you love has passed out.

Fuck him. Just come with me and let's just find out.

Fuck me? Like-

[all laughing]

Fuck me?

[Walton laughing]

He's in character now. He's in character.

Let's find out exactly what it is.

Like the origin of your story.

Then you wake up!

[Aaron] Then I wake up. Romeo!

I wake up alone, deserted.

Yeah. Promoted.

Promote-

Alone, deserted, and promoted.

[Aaron chuckles]

[Aaron] Well it's just like really dark sort of place.

I mean it's this person that we met

wanting nothing but the suit.

His entire existence in the Brotherhood of Steel.

And now it's like the last thing he would actually wish for,

which is this, this prison. You know?

But you find something.

You are credited with finding something.

I'm credited with finding the cold fusion.

The cold fusion, which is the whole thing.

It is limitless energy and society can be rebuilt on it.

And then someone beside Aaron raise his hand up.

Just like this. Because he is the new king.

It's always a good- Prince.

It's always a good feeling.

[people cheering]

Then now season two is coming on.

All great moments from season one,

and we can't wait for you to watch season two.