'I Knew What I Was Walking Into' — Fallout Season 2 Star Macaulay Culkin Already Knew All About the Lore From Watching YouTube Videos

Home Alone prima Macaulay Culkin is simply a astonishment summation to the Fallout Season 2 cast, but it turns retired helium was large into Fallout lore earlier helium got the telephone — and everything helium knows astir the video crippled franchise comes from watching YouTube videos.

In an interrogation with IGN, Culkin, who plays a subordinate Caesar's Legion, said that portion helium has little acquisition with the existent Fallout games, helium knew what helium was getting into erstwhile it came to starring connected the show.

“I'm precise acquainted with the lore,” Culkin said. “For sure. I've little hands-on acquisition with the games themselves, but that being said, I knew what I was walking into. When we [Culkin and histrion Brenda Song] were watching the show, I would intermission it for her and drawback her up connected like, oh, that's what this means, oregon that means, oregon that benignant of thing. Even immoderate of the subtle subtext of the show.”

Culkin’s cognition of the Fallout beingness comes from watching Fallout lore YouTube videos, which helium finds easier to acquisition than the video games.

“I'm acquainted with the lore successful that I watched a batch of YouTube stuff,” helium said. “It was 1 of those things where, honestly, I'm astir like, I don't person clip to physically bash this [pretends to usage controller] anymore.

"But that being said, I person capable clip to enactment a small earbud successful my receptor and perceive to things. And this is agelong earlier the amusement adjacent came out, due to the fact that it is simply a precise affluent world. And truthful yeah, there's endless hours of things that you tin speech astir and research astir it.” However, determination is 1 Fallout crippled Culkin plays: mobile rubric Fallout Shelter.

Culkin said helium loves the satellite of Fallout due to the fact that “there’s thing that is offbrand.”

“You could person zombies successful it, you person deathclaws, you person monsters and things similar that. I mean, gosh, you person aliens. You sanction it, you tin propulsion it astatine the wall. Even Fallout 76, I mean, the Mothman is present just game. It is that benignant of stuff. There's nary truly signifier to it. You tin benignant of instrumentality immoderate benignant of signifier portion into that hole.”

We’ve got plentifulness much connected Fallout Season 2, which kicks disconnected December 17 connected Prime Video, including confirmation from the creators that it avoids picking a New Vegas ending to marque canon.

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