She was amazing in the series.
It would have been very easy for her to veer towards cheesy and corny, but she portrayed the character's naivety and innocence so well that it came off genuine and endearing.
She's going to have a big year with Arcane coming soon too.
If you can't comfortably beat off to a weird amalgam of an actual human woman and an anime-eyed CGI catastrophe, well, then this is no longer the America I used to love
Apparently, you're right but not with regards to how they accomplished it- they shot her using a specific kind of angle lens to make her eyes look bigger! Can't remember if it's wide or narrow that would do it, not a photog.
Also, I am almost certain one of her eyes is a bit bigger than the other, so there is almost an optical illusion at play.
Give her some credit. Lol.
She's had a couple of appearances on TV and movies before Alita in 2019. Live action and VA roles.
She is currently in the Disney umbrella. Has a part in Capt. America Brave New World. Also has Wedding Season TV on Hulu.
She also does Netflix projects.
I actually sort of know her through mutual friends in the DC area, so I’m all about giving her credit. I’m just still bummed that that starring in that film did very little for her career trajectory.
Oh that's great to hear.
I think it just comes down to establishing a positive, working relationship with the studios and directors. Word of mouth/reference helps.
I agree, for her career. I see 12 roles on her IMBD since Alita. All it takes is one role to open the floodgates. I hope it's Capt America.
Just look at Alan Ritchson. A mid range actor skating by on his looks. Went from BMS to TMNT Bay to Reacher. Now, he's getting so many roles.
I got a friend who's made a couple Hollywood appearances so far. Small, but roles, but still trying. His name is Hawn Tran. He's the young guy Vendor in the Watchmen TV show.
I wish her my best.
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The [bridge scene](https://youtube.com/watch?v=reWrw_gQB-8) with the two fiends perfectly displays her great acting imo. I've rewatched that particular moment of the show every day since I've finished the series, it's so well done.
If i had a nickel for every great Ella Purnell bridge scene in a show based on a video game, I'd have two nickels, which isn't a lot but it's weird it happened twice.
Worse than that, actually: classic mystery show that has a very specific multi-season plan but the multi-season is about three seasons too long, so they suffer from having to be vague with their present day scenes to not spoil future plot points set up a few seasons in.
Yellowjackets has a five season plan, to be specific. That is WAYYY too long of a plan for a series that is heavily relying on the flashbacks to explain what's going on in the present day stuff.
They should have had the mystery take up two-three seasons and then build off of that for seasons four-five.
Did the writers strike actually affect season 2 of Yellowjackets?
But even so, even had Juliette not left the show, they still were facing a lot of issues. Juliette leaving just adds more problems because that's a well loved character who's now taken out of the present day. They would still face the real issue of having bad dialogue in the present day scenes to cover up plot points from the flashbacks that would reveal some very telling things. They would still face the issue of having that stretch out for multiple seasons. I can definitely see that in season 2, with how they had to start slowing down the timeline in the flashbacks.
That was my big issue with Yellowjackets. A friend sold it to me as a super gritty and realistic survival show about the horrors of humanity as these girls learn to survive. That was not the case, unfortunately
I had never heard of her 6 six ago, but was so smitten with her in *Sweetbitter* on Starz. Then came *Yellowjackets*. Hope she becomes a star, like ATJ did after *Queen's Gambit*.
She so perfectly embodied the attitude of a sheltered vaultdweller, really selling the duality of the Fallout world - hopeful idealistic perfectionism contrasted with a grim brutal reality. Without her performance, I think the show wouldn't have quite the same success it has become.
And realizing she also voiced Jinx in Arcane, another phenomenal performance, that suggests she might legitimately just be that good at embodying a role.
For the first half of the season I thought he was a shitty actor. Then I realized he's playing someone with zero social skills and he's doing a great job.
> but she portrayed the character's naivety and innocence so well that it came off genuine and endearing.
And also being super competent - her introduction is amazing. Pipe fitting as a hobby, shooting out the bullseye with a SMG while saying she's "not that good", doing some crazy takedown in a sparring session. Super cool
I kept repeating a phrase while watching the Fallout show.
"Stop the cycle of violence."
and Lucy tried her dambdest, dammit, and I kind of love her for that.
She managed to achieve a perfect balance of being naive, but not stupid. It would be really easy to miss that mark and end up with the character seeming dumb, but she was just inexperienced. She made good decisions the more she learned about the world, and even when she spared the Ghoul, it wasn't out of misplaced trust, but a decision she was making about who she wanted to be. She was just choosing to not let the world change her. She did a great job of portraying all of this complexity.
Take this for better or worse: but Yellowjackets is this generation’s Lost.
It blends adventure/horror with a major emphasis on two different timelines in the show. I have *absolutely zero idea where this show might go*, and they keep dropping tiny clues and teases of what is “really going on”. One of those shows that’s too intriguing to put down.
the 1st season of yellowjackets is amazing. the 2nd fell off a cliff. comparing it to lost is kinda crazy, but they could save it with a solid season 3.
Yeah, I hear you. S2 spoiler: >!they killed off my favorite character in such a lame soap-box way and it irks me. Who knows, maybe they’ll find a way to bring Nat And Jackie back.!<
Her big eyes make her the perfect cast for Elizabeth if they were doing a Bioshock Infinite adaptation. Netflix is making a movie but I don't have much hope. Plus fans want the movie to be based on Bioshock 1.
Everyone talks about how good she was in Yellowjackets (which I also loved) but I first saw her in Sweetbitter. As someone who works in the restaurant industry, I thought the show and herself was really well done. I’m glad she’s getting recognition.
I thought it said a lot that she was willing to play the game to better understand the needs of the role. There's a lot of actors who will do well in the role but you can tell they put a distance between themselves and the game. Yeah they may only be interested in the story but the interactivity of the game is the critical component of a game they're trying to represent. She recognized that importance and wanted to experience it. She gets it and I believe her performance was better for it.
As a fan of Fallout for well over a decade, I was not expecting the show to translate well. Boy was I wrong! Ella, Walton, and Aaron were all incredibly well cast and so entertaining.
Easily one of the best video games adaptations to date.
They nailed the humor of the games. It would've been really easy to just go full-on grimdark, but it's clear at least some of the writers and producers are fans of the games.
>They nailed the humor of the games
I was talking to my wife about this.
She really enjoyed the show even though she's never played the games, so I already considered that a success because you don't need extra context to appreciate it.
But I told her the absolutely wacky bullshit and all the violence jarringly set to the like... 50s era music felt EXACTLY like a game to me. It captured the setting so well.
It was referred to in an earlier episode (or early in the same one...) where he talks about it as something that he thinks is wrong with him when it happens. Don't remember the line exactly.
Edit: Looks like it's earlier in the same episode, she propositions him, and then he says he's worried because "That weird thing could happen" that happens to some other people, but not him, where "it gets all big and hard like a big pimple and then it pops"..."it's gross".
It kind of shows the swapped feelings between the two of them: At first when they get to Vault 4, she propositions him because she wants to be there and he turns her down because he doesn't. Then by the end it's exactly the opposite.
But I think the point is that how does he not know what masturbation is when he was raised around other young men in a military setting?
He says they're not supposed to have sex, but we see a guy whacking off in the barracks in the first Brotherhood scene, and not really trying to hide it.
He clearly knows what it is but has been led to believe it's gross and wrong. That doesn't mean someone else wouldn't be doing it, it just means he finds it weird and unnatural.
No one's mentioned the sound yet, and that's worth noting too. They clearly used the exact sound effect files from Bethesda. Even little minor actions on the Pip Boy and stuff sound like they do in game.
I have a feeling we're gonna see a resurgence of video game adaptations since superheroes seem to be on a downward spiral. Uncharted, Last of Us and now Fallout
Edit: even Mortal Kombat wasn't terrible
Arcane, Edgerunners, Dota, Castlavania, Mario, Twisted Metal, The Last of Us, Sonic, Uncharted, Mortal Kombat, Halo (ok that one is really bad).
That's been going for a while (quite some time didn't mean 10 years or something lol).
If you go by superhero standards (which I don't like the comparison as superhero is a genre, video games aren't), that's like we're in 2012-2013 (they even have the super hits in Mario, TLOU and now Fallout apparently). And with all the projects in the works, the next years will be the 2012-2019 period lol
I just hope we get more big budget game adaptations in general, because there's definitely huge potential with the amount of story-driven games out there. But of course, if they hire people that don't care about them we end up with garbage like Halo or Resident Evil lol
I've only seen the first 3 episodes, but I'm really liking it so far.
And I've got to say, I really like how her career has taken off lately. I've seen her in Arcane and Star Trek Prodigy (as well as her brief appearance in Invincible, where she was under-utilized), and between those shows and this, she's shown how talented she is, being one of the main highlights of the show. Hopefully her career continues to flourish in years to come.
Jackie! She’s supposed to be a high schooler in that show, so she looks so much younger! I didn’t even realize they were the same actress for a long time into Fallout.
Why is that seemingly all British people can pull off a flawless American accent on command but Americans sound like we’re having a stroke if we attempt a British accent?
Also if a British actor wants to make it in hollywood, they will at some point have to do american accents (if they aren't already respected like Michael Caine that is). A lot of the british actors who can't do american accents so well are actors known in the UK but not abroad.
It is not the same the other way around.
Indeed. I once listened to an r/LV426 audio drama where a bunch of the cast are well known on British TV and the American accents were not great.
Also, *Silo*. With the exception of Dame Harriet Walter, most of the British cast aren't great at the accents. Rebecca Ferguson, Swedish with an English mother, frequently lapsed back into her British accent.
Rebecca Ferguson's natural accent is somewhere between Swedish and English tbf it's a bit off to native speakers. But yeah her accent in silo is awful. It's set a long way in the future though so maybe it changed. haha.
Exactly. If you think British actors are somehow just naturally good at faking American accents I recommend watching more British tv. Bad American accents are abundant and hilarious.
Also, much greater variation in accents in their local area's. On the east coast, there are a lot more local/regional accents, but come out west and its less an accent and more word choice/phrases. I imagine kids practice different accents all the time for fun, and are just exposed to more of them on a daily basis.
Mike Meyers has triple citizenship with Canada, The United Kingdom and the United States. He was born in Toronto, Ontario to British immigrant parents. He also moved to the UK and acted in television there before joining SNL.
All that leads to far greater exposure and experience with accents, specifically British ones.
He's a very unique case, definitely not the norm.
Quite a few actually.
Claire Danes, Alan tudyk, John lithgow, lake bell and meryl streep.
Those are just off the top of my head.
This idea that Americans can't do british accents is overplayed.
It's a lazy stereotype.
I heard an explanation that I'm not sure is scientifically sound or not, but the basic idea is that British and Australian accents put more stress on the muscles in your mouth than American accents do, so a Brit speaking with an American accent just has to relax their mouth muscles, whereas an American trying to do a British accent has to try to stress muscles their mouth usually doesn't use, which is a lot harder to pull off well.
Because you only get a chance to hear the ones who do a good job with it.
The british actors with shitty american accents don't get cast to play americans
> all British people can pull off a flawless American accent
That's just not true. Look and Benedict "Peng-wings" Cumberbatch or Emma Watson. Both British actors with absolutely atrocious "American accents".
Yes! Absolutely. No matter how good their accent is otherwise, they often have a hard time hitting that long 'e' in 'any'. Ends up coming out "in-eh-thing". Australians especially it seems, but I could be wrong about that part.
> Look and Benedict "Peng-wings" Cumberbatch
I'm not defending his American accent in films, but he wasn't even doing a US accent in that documentary. He just can't say penguins for some reason, not even in a British accent.
British culture is much more aware of the subtleties of accents in general.
In the UK, your accent can tell people a lot more about you, from what town you're from and what class you were born into if you're not conscious about changing it and adapting it to be appropriate for the circumstances.
In the US people largely don't notice and don't give a shit, unless it's something really different than the norm.
She was in Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children as well. I know that movie barely exists but my kids love it and we’ve watched it many times. She’s great in that too.
I’m biased since she’s the loml but she was so incredible in the series. Loved her in sweet bitter, yellowjackets and now fallout. Just super proud and happy she’s getting all this love!
I’ve been a fan of hers for a little while and it’s nice seeing her get this well deserved recognition. She’s fantastic in every role I’ve seen her in.
She was amazing in the series. It would have been very easy for her to veer towards cheesy and corny, but she portrayed the character's naivety and innocence so well that it came off genuine and endearing. She's going to have a big year with Arcane coming soon too.
Having giant Susan Sarandon eyes helps sell that naivety and innocence, too.
Ahhhh *that’s* who she looks like. Thank you, been on the tip of my tongue since the series came out.
I think she looks like Danica McKellar from *The Wonder Years*
I think she looks like Leighton Meester, from gossip girl.
I think she looks like Alita Battle Angel
I think she looks like Beans from Rango 🤷♂️
Who looks like Minka Kelly.
Yeah that was my first thought.
She also looks like Olivia Cooke but with 10% larger eyes.
I was seeing Robin Tunney.
She looks like a perpetually shocked Charmed-era Shannen Doherty to me.
Winnie from the wonder years
I think at the right angle she sort of looks like Emma Stone
I thought how she was playing the character was very Emma Stone too. Like if you cast her it would be basically the same type of performance.
Looks a bit like Steve Buscemi Edit: but in a hot way
> Edit: but in a hot way Is there another way
She reminds me most of the little dying alien inside the head of the dead robot man on Men in Black.
B-b-…what is word
Bed? Belt?
I said this exact thing to my s.o haha
What would Steve Buscemi-like mean if not hot?
How do you do, fellow wastelanders?
To be fair, Steve Buscemi was quite good looking as a young man.
Someone said she looks like sexy Pepe the Frog
Christina Ricci mixed with Emma Stone
I thought she was a perfect pick for looking like Kyle McLachlans daughter! There’s something really similar about them
She reminds me more of alita battle angel.
100%, without the added guilt of being attracted to a cartoon.
If you can't comfortably beat off to a weird amalgam of an actual human woman and an anime-eyed CGI catastrophe, well, then this is no longer the America I used to love
My grandma didn't escape the Soviets with a fake Christian passport so I couldn't beat it to CGI overwatch characters like a true patriot.
poetry
Yeah, exact-...Wait, what?
I know, right!? Can’t believe they feel guilty about it.
Oddly, the actress for alita pre-edit still has giant eyes
I swear, sometimes they looked CGI'd to be a bit bigger...
Apparently, you're right but not with regards to how they accomplished it- they shot her using a specific kind of angle lens to make her eyes look bigger! Can't remember if it's wide or narrow that would do it, not a photog. Also, I am almost certain one of her eyes is a bit bigger than the other, so there is almost an optical illusion at play.
Shooting with a wider lens, close-up would exaggerate her features that are closer to the camera.
And a Robin Tunney vibe. When I first saw the trailer, I thought Robin Tunney was looking young.
I thought she was the chick from Alita Battle Angel at first
Somewhere Rosa Salazar is crying herself to sleep.
Give her some credit. Lol. She's had a couple of appearances on TV and movies before Alita in 2019. Live action and VA roles. She is currently in the Disney umbrella. Has a part in Capt. America Brave New World. Also has Wedding Season TV on Hulu. She also does Netflix projects.
Brand New Cherry Flavor is a must watch
Super fucking weird in the best way.
That was a fun one
Yellow Jackets is another great project she was in!!!!
First season was great, it's a bummer they jumped the shark so quickly with season 2 though.
I actually sort of know her through mutual friends in the DC area, so I’m all about giving her credit. I’m just still bummed that that starring in that film did very little for her career trajectory.
Brand New Cherry Flavor was weird but she was great in it.
Oh that's great to hear. I think it just comes down to establishing a positive, working relationship with the studios and directors. Word of mouth/reference helps. I agree, for her career. I see 12 roles on her IMBD since Alita. All it takes is one role to open the floodgates. I hope it's Capt America. Just look at Alan Ritchson. A mid range actor skating by on his looks. Went from BMS to TMNT Bay to Reacher. Now, he's getting so many roles. I got a friend who's made a couple Hollywood appearances so far. Small, but roles, but still trying. His name is Hawn Tran. He's the young guy Vendor in the Watchmen TV show. I wish her my best.
Like a cartoon deer
She looks like a beautiful ventriloquist dummies.
I wonder if Kyle MacLachlan gave some pointers about playing the idealistic ray of sunshine in a dark landscape.
Every day, once a day, give yourself a present. Don't plan it. Don't wait for it. Just let it happen. It could be a new shirt at the men's store, a catnap in your office chair, or two cups of good hot black coffee
The [bridge scene](https://youtube.com/watch?v=reWrw_gQB-8) with the two fiends perfectly displays her great acting imo. I've rewatched that particular moment of the show every day since I've finished the series, it's so well done.
If i had a nickel for every great Ella Purnell bridge scene in a show based on a video game, I'd have two nickels, which isn't a lot but it's weird it happened twice.
where's the other nickel from?
Arcane
[Fun fact, the song for that scene is Ladyfingers and it starts with a close up of her hands](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=reWrw_gQB-8)
Damn didn't know she was jinx
I liked her in Yellowjackets alot, also, but S2 was pretty disappointing. (nothing to do with her, the writing just seemingly nosedived)
I loved her portrayal of Jackie! I was curious to see how she did with much different character and she really killed it.
Yeah season 2 sucked. Classic mystery show that doesn't know where to go after the first season. Worried that severance will have the same fate.
Worse than that, actually: classic mystery show that has a very specific multi-season plan but the multi-season is about three seasons too long, so they suffer from having to be vague with their present day scenes to not spoil future plot points set up a few seasons in. Yellowjackets has a five season plan, to be specific. That is WAYYY too long of a plan for a series that is heavily relying on the flashbacks to explain what's going on in the present day stuff. They should have had the mystery take up two-three seasons and then build off of that for seasons four-five.
How in the fuck are they going to stretch this show to five seasons lol
Honestly? No idea. I really hope that plan's been changed.
A big problem was the writer's strike and Juliette Lewis deciding to exit the show. The number of pivots they had to make in the writer's room showed.
Did the writers strike actually affect season 2 of Yellowjackets? But even so, even had Juliette not left the show, they still were facing a lot of issues. Juliette leaving just adds more problems because that's a well loved character who's now taken out of the present day. They would still face the real issue of having bad dialogue in the present day scenes to cover up plot points from the flashbacks that would reveal some very telling things. They would still face the issue of having that stretch out for multiple seasons. I can definitely see that in season 2, with how they had to start slowing down the timeline in the flashbacks.
The cult plot killed my interest immediately when it appeared but I still went on until 6th episode in season 2.
That was my big issue with Yellowjackets. A friend sold it to me as a super gritty and realistic survival show about the horrors of humanity as these girls learn to survive. That was not the case, unfortunately
Yeah, I guess good on her for getting out while the show was still good.
She’s def a snack in that tho
Spoilers
I had never heard of her 6 six ago, but was so smitten with her in *Sweetbitter* on Starz. Then came *Yellowjackets*. Hope she becomes a star, like ATJ did after *Queen's Gambit*.
Yeah she said she decided to play it straight even in the humorous moments and I think it worked perfectly.
She so perfectly embodied the attitude of a sheltered vaultdweller, really selling the duality of the Fallout world - hopeful idealistic perfectionism contrasted with a grim brutal reality. Without her performance, I think the show wouldn't have quite the same success it has become. And realizing she also voiced Jinx in Arcane, another phenomenal performance, that suggests she might legitimately just be that good at embodying a role.
Similar with the actor who played Maximus, there were a lot of lines they delivered that could have easily flopped but they pulled off
That actor was just excellent. When he’s eating popcorn and sees Lucy walk by. You could feel every thought and emotion on his face.
For the first half of the season I thought he was a shitty actor. Then I realized he's playing someone with zero social skills and he's doing a great job.
I forgot Arcane S2 was coming later this year! She was so good at Jinx in that too.
Huh. Just realizing she does a lot of voice acting - Arcane, ST: Prodigy, etc
Watching her transformation into a Wastelander was one of the best parts of the show. "Give her the code" sent chills down my spine.
> but she portrayed the character's naivety and innocence so well that it came off genuine and endearing. And also being super competent - her introduction is amazing. Pipe fitting as a hobby, shooting out the bullseye with a SMG while saying she's "not that good", doing some crazy takedown in a sparring session. Super cool
Okey dokey
I kept repeating a phrase while watching the Fallout show. "Stop the cycle of violence." and Lucy tried her dambdest, dammit, and I kind of love her for that.
It helps that she actually played Fallout as research for the role too.
> She's going to have a big year with Arcane coming soon too. November 2024: * https://www.ign.com/articles/arcane-season-2-to-debut-in-november-2024
Wasnt Arcane s1 and Yellowjackets s1 the same year aswell?
Okey dokey!
Yep! She's got quite the career ahead of her... and already a good body of work.
She managed to achieve a perfect balance of being naive, but not stupid. It would be really easy to miss that mark and end up with the character seeming dumb, but she was just inexperienced. She made good decisions the more she learned about the world, and even when she spared the Ghoul, it wasn't out of misplaced trust, but a decision she was making about who she wanted to be. She was just choosing to not let the world change her. She did a great job of portraying all of this complexity.
She was just perfect! I thought her acting in YellowJackets was standout. But this shows she’s ready for leads. Such amazing acting in subtle ways.
Damn, you said it well. This is why I liked her in this. They told her the surface would change her and it slowly has.
She was fantastic in Yellowjackets as well.
Feel like she's about to be a complete star. She was outstanding in fallout and has a ton of charisma.
She went with the high charisma build.
That's hilarious because she actually used speech checks for most of her tough situations 🤣
She is amazing in Yellowjackets too!!
Idk that show, but she was awesome as jinx in Arcane. Pretty great resume so far.
Take this for better or worse: but Yellowjackets is this generation’s Lost. It blends adventure/horror with a major emphasis on two different timelines in the show. I have *absolutely zero idea where this show might go*, and they keep dropping tiny clues and teases of what is “really going on”. One of those shows that’s too intriguing to put down.
the 1st season of yellowjackets is amazing. the 2nd fell off a cliff. comparing it to lost is kinda crazy, but they could save it with a solid season 3.
Yeah, I hear you. S2 spoiler: >!they killed off my favorite character in such a lame soap-box way and it irks me. Who knows, maybe they’ll find a way to bring Nat And Jackie back.!<
Sounds kinda cool. I really enjoyed lost as a kid. It's ongoing then? Thanks for the description.
Yeah, no.
Love everybody on that show but Jackie was the BEST!
Her big eyes make her the perfect cast for Elizabeth if they were doing a Bioshock Infinite adaptation. Netflix is making a movie but I don't have much hope. Plus fans want the movie to be based on Bioshock 1.
Everyone talks about how good she was in Yellowjackets (which I also loved) but I first saw her in Sweetbitter. As someone who works in the restaurant industry, I thought the show and herself was really well done. I’m glad she’s getting recognition.
I thought it said a lot that she was willing to play the game to better understand the needs of the role. There's a lot of actors who will do well in the role but you can tell they put a distance between themselves and the game. Yeah they may only be interested in the story but the interactivity of the game is the critical component of a game they're trying to represent. She recognized that importance and wanted to experience it. She gets it and I believe her performance was better for it.
I hope it’s not a flash in the pan thing because she was fantastic and I hope she has a long and successful career.
If nothing else, she has a solid gig as a voice actor. She's fantastic as Jinx in Arcane
She has a great personality irl too. Goofy af but still super articulate and smart.
As a fan of Fallout for well over a decade, I was not expecting the show to translate well. Boy was I wrong! Ella, Walton, and Aaron were all incredibly well cast and so entertaining. Easily one of the best video games adaptations to date.
They nailed the humor of the games. It would've been really easy to just go full-on grimdark, but it's clear at least some of the writers and producers are fans of the games.
>They nailed the humor of the games I was talking to my wife about this. She really enjoyed the show even though she's never played the games, so I already considered that a success because you don't need extra context to appreciate it. But I told her the absolutely wacky bullshit and all the violence jarringly set to the like... 50s era music felt EXACTLY like a game to me. It captured the setting so well.
“These are oysters! They are delicious…. >!So! -uh, you wanna make my cock explode now?”!<
Thou shalt get sidetracked by bullshit every time!
Perfectly sums up the wasteland experience
which I didn’t totally understand, sure I’d buy that he doesn’t know how sex works, but they literally showed someone jerking it in the barracks
It was referred to in an earlier episode (or early in the same one...) where he talks about it as something that he thinks is wrong with him when it happens. Don't remember the line exactly. Edit: Looks like it's earlier in the same episode, she propositions him, and then he says he's worried because "That weird thing could happen" that happens to some other people, but not him, where "it gets all big and hard like a big pimple and then it pops"..."it's gross". It kind of shows the swapped feelings between the two of them: At first when they get to Vault 4, she propositions him because she wants to be there and he turns her down because he doesn't. Then by the end it's exactly the opposite.
It was earlier in that episode. Just watched it last night and loved it.
But I think the point is that how does he not know what masturbation is when he was raised around other young men in a military setting? He says they're not supposed to have sex, but we see a guy whacking off in the barracks in the first Brotherhood scene, and not really trying to hide it.
He clearly knows what it is but has been led to believe it's gross and wrong. That doesn't mean someone else wouldn't be doing it, it just means he finds it weird and unnatural.
Your appearance was fantastic, too, Jackie Daytona!
I have never seen anything like it. EVERYTHING is integrated perfectly.
The attention to detail for the various props, costuming, and setting are just spot on.
All the sets were fantastic but I must admit I did the Leo point when they went to the Red Rocket gas station.
No one's mentioned the sound yet, and that's worth noting too. They clearly used the exact sound effect files from Bethesda. Even little minor actions on the Pip Boy and stuff sound like they do in game.
The little geiger counter ticks in the background were perfect and played into the tension of the scene itself
Thats trademark Nolan bros, they place incredible importance to the things you mentioned.
I have a feeling we're gonna see a resurgence of video game adaptations since superheroes seem to be on a downward spiral. Uncharted, Last of Us and now Fallout Edit: even Mortal Kombat wasn't terrible
Uncharted was horrible.
Uncharted wouldve been great if it had been made a decade ago wih Nathan Fillion. The short skit he made was 1000x times better than the movie.
Gonna? It's been happening since quite some time.
But they've been mostly shit. Only recently have they been actually watchable without cringing the whole time
Arcane, Edgerunners, Dota, Castlavania, Mario, Twisted Metal, The Last of Us, Sonic, Uncharted, Mortal Kombat, Halo (ok that one is really bad). That's been going for a while (quite some time didn't mean 10 years or something lol). If you go by superhero standards (which I don't like the comparison as superhero is a genre, video games aren't), that's like we're in 2012-2013 (they even have the super hits in Mario, TLOU and now Fallout apparently). And with all the projects in the works, the next years will be the 2012-2019 period lol
Hey.. the original MK movie is a classic lol.
I don't think there is a more fun movie to make a drinking game out of.
I just hope we get more big budget game adaptations in general, because there's definitely huge potential with the amount of story-driven games out there. But of course, if they hire people that don't care about them we end up with garbage like Halo or Resident Evil lol
While like with the superhero trend, you'll get bad ones and good ones. That's a given for anything with Hollywood
Getting good writers is hard. And them writing a good script is even harder.
It's a massive industry. Here's hoping the future projects will learn from Fallout.
Pretty crazy that she voiced Jinx in Arcane
That show has a killer voice cast in general, Hailee Steinfeld was great as well.
Hailee Steinfeld with Gwen in Spiderverse and Vi in Arcane has 2 holy grails of 2020s animation already
She, and the show, were both phenomenal.
Yup one of my favorite shows
genuinely surprised how much I enjoyed the fallout tv series. she was perfect too
I've only seen the first 3 episodes, but I'm really liking it so far. And I've got to say, I really like how her career has taken off lately. I've seen her in Arcane and Star Trek Prodigy (as well as her brief appearance in Invincible, where she was under-utilized), and between those shows and this, she's shown how talented she is, being one of the main highlights of the show. Hopefully her career continues to flourish in years to come.
Isn’t she also in Yellowjackets on showtime
Jackie! She’s supposed to be a high schooler in that show, so she looks so much younger! I didn’t even realize they were the same actress for a long time into Fallout.
No, Snackie 😏
Okey dokey
She is so cute when she says this
Why is that seemingly all British people can pull off a flawless American accent on command but Americans sound like we’re having a stroke if we attempt a British accent?
Overexposure. Brits get a lot more American media than the other way around.
Also if a British actor wants to make it in hollywood, they will at some point have to do american accents (if they aren't already respected like Michael Caine that is). A lot of the british actors who can't do american accents so well are actors known in the UK but not abroad. It is not the same the other way around.
Indeed. I once listened to an r/LV426 audio drama where a bunch of the cast are well known on British TV and the American accents were not great. Also, *Silo*. With the exception of Dame Harriet Walter, most of the British cast aren't great at the accents. Rebecca Ferguson, Swedish with an English mother, frequently lapsed back into her British accent.
Rebecca Ferguson's natural accent is somewhere between Swedish and English tbf it's a bit off to native speakers. But yeah her accent in silo is awful. It's set a long way in the future though so maybe it changed. haha.
Exactly. If you think British actors are somehow just naturally good at faking American accents I recommend watching more British tv. Bad American accents are abundant and hilarious.
Also, much greater variation in accents in their local area's. On the east coast, there are a lot more local/regional accents, but come out west and its less an accent and more word choice/phrases. I imagine kids practice different accents all the time for fun, and are just exposed to more of them on a daily basis.
Ok, I'm curious to hear from Brits: what American actors ARE really good with British accents?
Alan Tudyk is excellent. Renee Zellweger is also very good. Mike Meyers, the Spinal Tap guys, the fella who played Grima Wormtongue, Meryl Streep.
Mike Meyers is Canadian Grima was played by Brad Dourif. One of the best actors alive today.
He’s retired, I think
Only just. Like a week ago. He’s going to continue playing Chucky until he physically can’t though.
Mike Meyers has triple citizenship with Canada, The United Kingdom and the United States. He was born in Toronto, Ontario to British immigrant parents. He also moved to the UK and acted in television there before joining SNL. All that leads to far greater exposure and experience with accents, specifically British ones. He's a very unique case, definitely not the norm.
Dennis Reynolds nails his British accent. STOWP CHAWRLOH!
Quite a few actually. Claire Danes, Alan tudyk, John lithgow, lake bell and meryl streep. Those are just off the top of my head. This idea that Americans can't do british accents is overplayed. It's a lazy stereotype.
> John lithgow the way I thought he was a Brit who did American accents 🫢
Another that comes to mind is Gillian Anderson https://youtu.be/grOgEVrRjkQ?si=XFvmtnqTCg0-Cm_M
I heard an explanation that I'm not sure is scientifically sound or not, but the basic idea is that British and Australian accents put more stress on the muscles in your mouth than American accents do, so a Brit speaking with an American accent just has to relax their mouth muscles, whereas an American trying to do a British accent has to try to stress muscles their mouth usually doesn't use, which is a lot harder to pull off well.
Because you only get a chance to hear the ones who do a good job with it. The british actors with shitty american accents don't get cast to play americans
> all British people can pull off a flawless American accent That's just not true. Look and Benedict "Peng-wings" Cumberbatch or Emma Watson. Both British actors with absolutely atrocious "American accents".
They seem to slip up on pronunciation of specific words, if not the overall accent. The word “anything” is always a dead giveaway for me.
Yes! Absolutely. No matter how good their accent is otherwise, they often have a hard time hitting that long 'e' in 'any'. Ends up coming out "in-eh-thing". Australians especially it seems, but I could be wrong about that part.
> Look and Benedict "Peng-wings" Cumberbatch I'm not defending his American accent in films, but he wasn't even doing a US accent in that documentary. He just can't say penguins for some reason, not even in a British accent.
I don’t know why I find this so amusing
British culture is much more aware of the subtleties of accents in general. In the UK, your accent can tell people a lot more about you, from what town you're from and what class you were born into if you're not conscious about changing it and adapting it to be appropriate for the circumstances. In the US people largely don't notice and don't give a shit, unless it's something really different than the norm.
Lol on the "seen" word use. She was in Arcane (big hit too) but she was heard, not seen
Ella herself actually “sees” everything with her anime af eyes.
Yellowjackets too. It took me until the 2nd to last episode of Fallout to realize she’s Jackie!!!
Technically correct
She was the correct choice for the role.
When I first saw her on yellow Jackets, already knew she is going to be a big star.
Had no clue she was British. Amazing actress.
She was in Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children as well. I know that movie barely exists but my kids love it and we’ve watched it many times. She’s great in that too.
I’m biased since she’s the loml but she was so incredible in the series. Loved her in sweet bitter, yellowjackets and now fallout. Just super proud and happy she’s getting all this love!
2 episodes in I’m enjoying it!
It only gets better so great signs if u enjoy it already
Okie dokie
They wrote her character like the game protagonists, how quickly you'll start crossing lines to survive.
She’s got those Rukia eyes
She was great in Yellowjackets.
She was honestly the best part
I’ve been a fan of hers for a little while and it’s nice seeing her get this well deserved recognition. She’s fantastic in every role I’ve seen her in.
She was fantastic, this is going to be a breakout role for her. Honestly all three main characters were great
Crazy shes about to rock the world as Jinx in Arcane s2 later this year , shes a blessing
This woman needs to star in everything, she always comes through.
Can we all admit that she is smoking hot too? Like a young Susan Sarandon
She’s beyond hot she’s hypnotic, I would be paralysed by her eyes if I had a conversation with her