Despite the success of season one of Prime Video’s Fallout, the stars of the show haven’t forgotten the responsibly they have to the franchise’s dedicated fanbase, as Ella Purnell emphasises to Supanova.

“Fathers played it with their sons, fathers played it with their fathers, people get emotional when they talk about this game,” Purnell, who portrays Lucy MacLean in the series, says, sitting alongside co-stars Walton Goggins and Aaron Moten, who play the Ghoul/Cooper Howard and Maximus, respectively.

“We have 700 crew, we have an incredible ensemble… this is a global community, and to be the tiniest part of that, that’s incredible… that’s mind-blowing.”

The actress recalls a conversation the trio had in the car earlier that day while darting between press commitments.

Ella Purnell as Lucy MacLean in ‘Fallout’ Season 2. Credit: Lorenzo Sisti

“This show has changed my life on so many levels,” Purnell shares. “It’s so incredibly, creatively fulfilling, I’ve learnt so much in my personal life, I’m a better actor, I’ve met incredible life-long friends; the reason I talk about this show with so much pride and excitement is because of how deeply it has shaped me, and how deeply it has touched me, in so many ways.”

The cast light up when speaking about the show, both its production and storyline, and it’s clear they’re invested at every level.

“I love everything about this show,” Goggins says, clapping his hands together enthusiastically.

“Why do we care so much about it? Because if we don’t care, nobody else will care. But if we do care, then maybe everybody else will care, and more importantly, it’s because this is what I love to do more than anything in the world. I don’t know how not to care about something that I’m a part of; I wouldn’t be here if I didn’t care.”

Season two of Fallout picks up in the aftermath of season one’s epic finale, with Lucy and the Ghoul journeying through the wasteland of the Mojave to the post-apocalyptic city of New Vegas.

Walton Goggins as Cooper Howard in ‘Fallout’ Season 2. Credit: Supplied

“This journey that Lucy and the Ghoul go on,” Goggins says, “it’s fun to think about, ‘Okay, there are two actors on a road trip. Who cares? I’ve seen that movie.’ But then you go, ‘Alright, well, one doesn’t even know how to have a conversation with another human being, he doesn’t do that, and the other doesn’t know where she’s going or what she’s doing.’ They’re in two completely different spaces: one’s an optimist and the other’s a nihilist.

“We had the most fun… there was one morning when we first started, Ella and I were walking next to each other, and then Ella said, ‘Well, wait a minute, why are we walking beside each other? Because it makes it easier for you to get a two-shot? Why am I walking next to him?’ And I’m like, ‘Yeah, why are you walking next to me?’

“They don’t – they’ll drift back and forth – you have to earn that proximity, and we messed with all of that and really thought about, ‘Okay, well, who was the first person to speak?’ It was Lucy. ‘What was the first thing out of her mouth that the Ghoul had a response to?’ And then, ‘What was the first question the Ghoul asked her about her life?’ I just get obsessed thinking about the reality of any situation, and it’s a long-winded answer to your question, but I just felt like talking. We care!”

Meanwhile, the first episodes of the new season find Moten’s Maximus trying to navigate a political minefield in the Brotherhood.

Johnny Pemberton as Thaddeus and Aaron Moten as Maximus in ‘Fallout’ Season 2. Credit: Lorenzo Sisti

“You look at Maximus and he’s not only got a sense of loss, but abandonment, and abuse when it comes to other human beings and what he’s encountered,” Moten says.

“The backstory of Maximus was shared with me before we started shooting our first season, and now the audience will get a chance to have a glimpse at that.”

Although Maximus and Lucy’s stories are separate when the season begins, Moten teases that their chance encounter in season one, and the things they experienced together throughout those episodes, will play a big part as the story unfolds.

“He’s going to make these big decisions in our second season that really are the start of the falling dominoes for a lot of the wasteland,” he shares.

And it really is just the start, with the show already picked up for a third season, as Purnell is quick to remind us.

“I carry this character in me, and I will forever; it’s been such an incredible, emotional journey, and it’s not done,” she says. “We’re doing it again, and it’s going to keep going on, and keep evolving, and hopefully – fingers crossed, touch wood – be with me into my 30s.”