According to someone with an inside scoop, the great Macaulay Culkin will be joining Fallout season two in a relatively big way.
As revealed by Deadline’s Nellie Andreeva (who has an incredible track record with these kinds of leaks), Culkin will be joining Amazon’s Fallout series “in a recurring role” and has apparently been cast as “a crazy genius-type character”. Following the report, Culkin actually took to Instagram to confirm the leak in a post that simply stated "Yep. It’s happening."
The majority of the characters in the Fallout TV show are completely new to the canon, but a couple of OG characters have already popped up (like, for instance, Mr House).
This does mean that it’s more likely than not that Culkin will be playing an original character, but there’s always the chance he’ll take over the role of a pre-existing character.
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Considering the season 1 cliffhanger saw Lucy’s father Hank wind up in New Vegas, I personally think it would be pretty funny if Culkin played Fantastic - but that’s just me.
Beyond this relatively fresh casting leak, there’s not actually much we know about Fallout’s second season thus far.
Screen Rant’s Lukas Shayo was however able to confirm that filming for the series was supposed to start sometime this month, following an interview with Leslie Uggams, which is probably why Culkin’s involvement has leaked.
There have been a few other teases in regards to other potential cast members, but the most interesting one dropped back in April following an interview between IGN's Alex Stedman and Jonathan Nolan (executive producer and director for the show).
Nolan teased that another big star was interested in joining in the project, who he’d worked with during his time on Westworld; Aaron Paul.
“Yeah, Aaron Paul was at the premiere, a human being I love so much” Nolan explained. “And he was very polite. He was very enthusiastic about the show. There was sort of an unspoken kind of like, "What's up, man?" But we've been hearing from so many people, and it's kind of fun to see the Fallout fans come out of the woodwork.”
