Fallout spoilers follow.
The cast of Fallout have teased ideas for season 2, including warring factions.
The Prime Video adaptation of the iconic video game series debuted this week, and follows the aftermath of a nuclear apocalypse as Lucy (Ella Purnell) ventures out of her fallout bunker of Vault 33 into the Wasteland.
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Speaking exclusively to Digital Spy about the show, Walton Goggins – who plays gunslinger The Ghoul – explained that "this is a world where nothing exists anymore, there's no civilisation, there's no order to civilisation, it is chaos".
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"There are no nation-states left in the world, we're tribal, there are small groups of people, and in my case, it's just a tribe of one," he noted, before suggesting some ideas going forward.
"But you have my experience, you have Ella's experience, you have Aaron [Moten]'s experience, you have the vault dwellers, that she is a part of, but no longer, she's been exposed to the world, eventually this is about rebuilding the world, and who is going to come along and organise those tribes? And will there be two factions of tribes? Or will there be three? Will there be 10?
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"There are so many different ways in which one can conceive of rebuilding the f**king world, and these are just three people right here, I just can't wait to see how we interact on that level. I think that's so cool because we're so different," Goggins added.
Addressing Lucy's future and whether she will stay so positive, Purnell explained that her character's outlook "comes from being privileged, and sheltered, and having all of your needs met".
"That's the big question, is she going to maintain that positivity, or rather that moral compass? Does she still believe people are inherently good when she meets all of the characters the Wasteland has to offer?" she added.
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"I'm really excited for people to see where she ends up at the end of the season. I think it's a spectrum and weirdly every scene, I think it lands at a different place in the spectrum. We'll see."
The show's stars went on to discuss what they'd like to see for their characters in the future, as well as the potential to visit other big locations from the original game series.
"I think there's something interesting about, and this goes back to that it is an adaptation, but tracking these characters through even just one season, it's a real joy I think to upgrade, for lack of a better word, to develop them even further," Moten (Maximus) said.
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"They get better, at some things, they take things from each other, along the journeys, even when we do have these worlds clashing, and to see where that brings them, and to see how that helps or hurts their cause.
"It's that development process, like 'What new weapons are there?' you know, that stuff does become really fun as an actor, to have some sort of improvement."
"I can't wait to see what happens next time all three of our characters meet," Purnell added, before Goggins joked: "Yeah, let's just eat some people, be cannibals, eat some cool... ass jerky."
Fallout is available to stream now on Prime Video.
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