- I Googled "How can I play Fallout-"
- Uh-huh. - "Online?"
- You thought there should be a website
that you could go to?
- Yeah, I was like "www.fallout.com."
- Yeah. - And was surprised.
I learned that you can't- - You can't.
- Play it online. - Yeah.
- Hi, Wired.
We are the cast of Fallout,
and we are answering the most-Googled questions
about Fallout.
- [Walton] Okay, here we go.
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- When did the bombs drop in Fallout?
- Ooh. Wow.
- 2077.
- I think we all know. 2077.
- We know this one. 2077. [bell dings]
- 2077. - That's easy.
Got that one.
- Did you just throw that on the ground?
- That's what we do. - Yeah.
- How many vaults are in Fallout?
Do you know the,
do you know the answer to this one?
- How many vaults in Fallout?
- How many vaults are in Fallout?
Well, you're in Vault-
- How do you know?
- 33? - There's at least 33.
[Aaron laughs]
- There's at least 33.
Okay. There's 33 that we know of.
- Mm.
- We're actors.
We're not writers.
- I think it's 122. - 122? You think so?
- I think it's 122. [bell dings]
- Wow. That's a lot.
- I don't know my lines, but I know that.
- Yeah. Perfect.
- Is Fallout TV show canon?
- It's a story within the Fallout universe
that fits in the canon
of Fallout, [bell dings]
but it's not based
or predicated
on one of the Fallout games.
- That was good. - Yeah.
- Was that good? - Yeah.
- Okay. Great.
There we go.
My turn.
Thank you so much,
by the way, for making these words so big,
[Ella laughs]
because I usually need glasses.
How big would a real life Vault-Tec vault
from the Fallout universe be?
Ooh, great question.
- I didn't know that one.
How big would a real life Vault-Tec vault be?
- Wait, how many people live in a vault?
- Uh, you know- - A lot.
- I mean, there are- - At least 33.
- There are numbered streets.
There's a High Street. [Ella and Aaron laugh]
Right?
You got a couple of neighborhoods, right?
I mean, it supports about- - It's a little town.
- Like 300,
300 people?
- 300, 300, 400.
- Yeah, 300, 400 people?
So let's go with, like,
the size of, like, an Amazon warehouse.
[Ella laughs]
[all laughing]
I don't know. I'm gonna go, like-
- I think that's right.
- Let's go "50,000 square feet."
- Yeah, 50,000 square feet.
- 100,000 square feet. [bell dings]
- [Aaron] What is that in square meters?
- Yeah. - I don't know.
I live in America. [Ella laughs]
- Who are the good guys in Fallout?
- I mean, depends who you ask.
- Villains- - That's probably right.
- Become heroes that become villains
and then heroes again.
- Just a lot of gray area.
- It's a lot of gray area.
- Who are the actors in the Fallout TV show?
[Ella laughs]
[Aaron vocalizing]
This is us. [all laughing]
We did it. We-
Next.
I play Maximus.
- He's Aaron Moten. - What?
- I'm Ella Purnell. I play Lucy.
- I'm Walton Goggins,
and I play The Ghoul.
How about that?
The Irradiated Ghoul.
- Why does Lucy leave the vault?
[Ella inhales deeply]
- Um... - To get,
to get food?
- To get the other side.
I'm just kidding.
[all laughing] - "To get to the other side."
- She has a mission
that she has to complete somewhere else.
- What's the mission?
- I can't say.
[Walton and Aaron laugh]
- Bam.
- I don't wanna get sued. - Just like that,
"Out. Out. Next one." - Don't sue me, Amazon.
- Are Fallout ghouls immortal?
Wow. Wow.
You know, I don't know the answer to that,
to that question.
I know that I've lived for 200 years.
It's a very long time.
- But you can die.
- I think yeah.
I think, yeah, you can die.
- Yeah, ghouls die.
- Yeah, the ghouls die all the time.
[bell dings] - All the time?
- Yeah. Yeah. - [Ella] It's tragic.
- This one, this one just hasn't, yet.
It's in my contract.
[Aaron laughs]
We'll see if he lives to 205 years.
[Aaron and Walton laugh]
- What is Mr. Handy in Fallout?
Am I right in thinking that's the robot?
[bell dings]
- You know, he's a pretty cool robot, too.
- He is, actually. - Yeah.
Yeah.
- He's one of the first characters you meet in the game.
Well, in Fallout 4, the game that I played.
And it's a really good intro to Fallout.
- Yeah.
- Toss it. - Oh.
- Oh, yeah.
- What am I thinking? - Get it outta here.
- Is Maximus in the Brotherhood of Steel?
Yes. [bell dings]
- Yeah. - We're getting through these.
- [Walton] Simple.
- Does the internet exist in the Fallout universe?
No. [buzzer buzzing]
- I don't think so.
- No. - No.
- I don't think so.
- Good luck. - No.
Is Wasteland in the Fallout universe?
- Yeah.
- Wasteland is in the Fallout universe.
[bell dings]
It's a very, very big part
of the Fallout universe.
And the Wasteland, as far as we know it,
I mean, we're,
the first season takes place in Los Angeles.
We can say that.
But it could be all over the world.
Probably is all over the world.
- Oh.
- And we will explore the entire world
in the 10 seasons that we do this show.
[Ella laughs]
- Wow.
- So thank you very much for watching it.
[Ella laughs]
- Who is the dog in Fallout?
In the game,
it's Dogmeat.
- Dogmeat. - Dogmeat.
- Yeah. - Yeah.
- In the show, he- - CX-
- He is CX404. [bell dings]
- CX, CX404.
- Nailed it.
- Yeah. Got that one.
Can I just take a second?
- [Aaron] Yeah, why?
- We've answered a lot of these questions correctly.
- Yeah, we have. - Yeah.
We're doing pretty good here.
- Is there a score? - It's not bad.
No. But there should be a score.
We're against all of you-
- We're a very competitive cast.
- Watching at home, and we're winning.
- We like everything to be a competition.
- We're winning.
- Is Fallout TV show based in California?
- It is. [bell dings]
- [Aaron] Yes.
- Yeah.
- Oh, this is a hard one.
What creature would be the most dangerous
in the Fallout universe?
This one, probably.
Right here.
- Ooh. I'm a creature.
[Ella laughs]
I'm a reptile.
- There's a lot of,
I mean, in Fallout the game-
The show is different, right? But-
- The gulpers. - The gulper is one.
- Yeah, yeah.
- What about your guy? - Yeah.
- A yao guai's, yeah,
that's pretty formidable.
- You know, Dogmeat- - What about your guy?
- Dogmeat's pretty formidable. - Yeah.
- You know, like, let's just- - That's right.
- Just a basic Belgian Malinois.
- Yeah. - Yeah.
He's, that's pretty dangerous.
- Oh, we forgot about the Deathclaw.
[bell dings]
- We forgot about the Deathclaw.
The Deathclaw is,
can invoke death.
[all laughing]
- Ooh.
- Oh. Can Fallout ghouls reproduce?
Wow. Uh- [Ella laughs]
Not ready for primetime on this one.
- That's you.
- You know, I- - Highly-Googled.
- Highly-Googled. [Aaron laughs]
You know, I-
Maybe there could be, like, a ghoul baby.
[buzzer buzzing]
I mean, we didn't come across any ghoul babies.
- I don't think there has been any ghoul babies,
but there could be. - No, no ghoul babies.
I don't know that the ghoul that I play
has ever engaged
in a reproductive exercise.
So I don't, I don't know.
- What Fallout game is the show based on?
It's not based on any of the games
except the world
of all the games.
[bell dings] This is an original story
that takes place in the world of Fallout.
- In the world of Fallout.
- Who is the girl in Fallout?
It's me.
[Aaron laughs]
I'm the girl. - Hey. Whoa.
- My name's Ella. I play Lucy.
I'm the girl in Fallout. [bell dings]
- You are!
[Aaron laughs]
- Ooh, I'm so sorry.
Did I get you?
- You throw it back.
[Ella laughs]
- I wanted to do something kind of different.
- When does the Fallout TV show take place?
Ooh.
- The bombs fell 2077.
- 219 years after 2077.
- 219, is that right? - 219. That's what it is.
- 219.
- So that would make it
2277
plus 19
would be 97 minus one.
That's how I do math.
[Aaron laughs]
- Wait, like- - So
2, 2,
2296. [bell dings]
- 2296.
- Who plays The Ghoul in Fallout TV show?
- Aaron Moten. [Ella laughs]
He's amazing.
[Aaron laughs] He's amazing.
No, I play The Ghoul.
I play The Ghoul in the Fallout TV show.
[bell dings]
I've got great makeup on,
but I really look like The Ghoul underneath this makeup.
It's really weird.
- Who is overseer in Fallout TV show?
- Ooh. - Ooh.
- The overseer is played by Kyle MacLachlan.
[bell dings] - Right.
- And he is called Hank.
And he's my dad. - He's her papa.
- Not in real life;
in the show.
He's a great guy. - Amazing.
What an icon.
He's an icon. - I love him.
- He's an incredible actor.
We're very, very lucky to have him.
- [Ella] He's a good guy.
- Thank you, Kyle. - Thank you, Kyle.
- Where is Kyle? - For coming on board.
- He's not here.
- They didn't invite him.
Just the three of us.
'Cause we're all that matter.
- Why does Fallout look like the '50s?
I'm pretty sure, in the Fallout world,
micro-processors were never invented.
So futuristic things,
the way people saw them in the '50s
is kind of the design of the show.
- [Walton] Yeah.
- But when Fallout was made,
they pulled elements
from all kinds of different reference points
to make their look. [bell dings]
- It's retro-futuristic
and nostalgic.
- Yeah.
- You know, it's cool.
- Are there any female ghouls in Fallout?
- Ooh.
You would know the answer to this question.
- There are female ghouls. [bell dings]
- Yeah, they do- - Yeah.
Yeah.
Yeah. - They exist.
- Are there-
Why is this one of the most cuckoo questions?
Are there any horses in the Fallout universe?
- This is just me Googling this.
[Ella laughs]
So frequently.
- I- - I haven't seen any,
and I would love to see a two-headed,
three-headed horse.
I don't know.
It would be mutated.
It wouldn't look like a horse.
- No. - No.
I mean, I...
If, you know, The Ghoul's been around
for 200 years-
- Wouldn't you have you seen it?
- You would think that he would have picked a horse
instead of walking.
[Ella and Aaron laugh]
- It's a lonely Wasteland.
- I don't know that there are horses.
[bell dings] - I'm gonna say no.
I'm gonna say no.
I don't,
I'm not, I don't know,
but I'm gonna disagree. - Yeah.
- Oh, what's the armor in the Fallout TV show?
We have a few models,
but our main model
is a T-60 Power Armor suit. [bell dings]
- Wow. Did you,
did it make you feel,
was it, was it-
- Of course.
You put any part of that armor on
and people move out of your way.
- [Walton] Yeah, yeah, yeah.
That's cool.
- Yeah. - Yeah.
Oh, man. I would love to-
- I want one. - Put on one of those suits.
- What are gulpers in Fallout?
What are they, really?
I mean, I know
they're sort of irradiated- - Like-
- Water creatures. [bell dings]
- They're,
they're huge catfish. - Right.
- They're really, really big catfish.
- But they're-
- But blended with... - Really messed up.
- Blended with... - Blended with-
- They're kind of buff, though.
- Yeah. - They're buff.
- Like, they're buff.
- They're kind of blended with humans, right?
- They have arms. - They're like people.
- Yeah. - They're weird.
- They're weird.
There's someone out there that thinks gulpers are hot.
I'm just putting that out there.
- Ugh. [Walton laughs]
- How to become a ghoul in Fallout?
- Well, you gotta have a great agent.
[Ella and Aaron laugh]
You know, for me it's CAA.
You know,
it's through radiation. [bell dings]
So everyone kind of has that potential,
or fate, I suppose,
if you live long enough
living in a radioactive world
or an irr-
irrid-
[Ella laughing] - Irradiated world.
- Irradiated world. - There we go.
[Ella laughing]
- That you can kind of become a ghoul.
- Yeah.
- You, too, can become a ghoul.
It takes about three hours in the chair every morning.
- If you just believe in yourself.
[all laughing]
Was Bethesda involved
in Fallout TV show?
- Todd Howard and Jonah Nolan
are the whole conversation
that started the entire process of creating
our show of Fallout. [bell dings]
Bethesda is very much involved,
and I think they're really happy with this show.
- Oh, do you? - I do.
- Oh, do you?
- Do you think that we will get
other Bethesda games for free?
- Ooh. We should ask them. - Like some swag?
You know, like a couple of things?
- I want some Bethesda swag.
Hint, hint.
[Walton laughs]
- How many questions- [Aaron and Ella laughing]
What are you guys doing?
- Is this deck of cards,
it's a deck of cards. - Come on, guys.
- How realistically do you think the Fallout universe
portrays a post-apocalyptic world?
- I'd like to, like,
have dinner with the person
that actually Googled this.
This is a very serious- - It's a big question.
I like it.
- Question, really, yeah.
- Well, I think it depends
on what caused the apocalypse, right?
This is very specifically a nuclear apocalypse.
- Yeah. That's right.
- Very specifically,
what makes Fallout
is the two-headed cows
and the retro-futuristic vibe
and, you know.
- And the reorganization of people, you know.
- Yeah. - The clan formations-
- Right. - That happen.
There's some things that I think are extremely realistic.
- [Ella] Very realistic.
- Well, and I,
I think it bears kind of repeating, like,
because it's a serious question.
So many of the locations that we went to photograph
in Namibia were real.
- Yes. - Right?
So, so much of it is not green screen.
And so it feels very tactile and real.
- Mm-hmm.
Ooh, that's for you.
- Is the Brotherhood of Steel evil?
- Another big question.
- Very big question. - Boy.
Well, I believe the Brotherhood of Steel
believes that everything they're doing is right and just,
and that they are the good guys.
- You take the last one.
- Oh.
Can ghouls turn feral?
The answer is "absolutely." [bell dings]
I haven't, yet.
Lucky, I suppose.
But there are a lot of feral ghouls in the show.
It's pretty, it's pretty gnarly, huh?
- Mm-hmm.
It's rough.
- You experienced them.
- Yeah. It's rough.
- Yeah. - Yeah.
You do not wanna get on the wrong side of a feral ghoul.
- I think feral ghouls give all ghouls a bad name.
- I agree with you.
I absolutely agree with you.
Feral ghouls give good ghouls-
- It's hard out here for a ghoul.
- A bad name. [Aaron laughs]
- It's hard to be a ghoul.
- Hot out here for a ghoul.
[Walton and Aaron laugh]
And with that,
I thank you.
- Thank you for having us.
That was some of the most-Googled questions
about Fallout.
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