"I'm Over It": Ella Purnell Reveals The One Lucy Detail From Fallout That's Now The "Bane Of My Life"
Purnell explains the "poop finger."
Fallout star Ella Purnell shares one particularly frustrating part of playing Lucy on the hit series. Hitting Prime Video in 2024, the adaptation of the beloved video game franchise hails from creators Graham Wagner and Geneva Robertson-Dworet. Purnell leads the Fallout TV show cast as Lucy, a vault dweller who embarks on a quest across a post-apocalyptic landscape in an attempt to find her father. Lucy's journey is ripe with violence and misfortune, and she ends up getting one of her fingers cut off, only to get a new one sewn on later.
During a recent panel at MegaCon Orlando for which ScreenRant was in attendance, Purnell reveals that Lucy's new finger in Fallout became quite annoying. The actor explains that the pale, dead-looking finger had to be painted on every single day for filming, and everyone on set ended up calling it the "poop finger." Check out Purnell's comment when asked if she's worried about being typecast as characters that lose their fingers:
That would actually be one of the worst things to happen to me. You know how annoying it is to have that finger painted on me every single day? This finger is the bane of my life. It's the worst thing.
We tried certain things because they paint it, right? I don't know if you guys know this, that you use the most for everything, all the time. And then you have to take it off, you put it back on, it's very annoying. I just have this, like, poop finger all the time. I have to tell people when I go home at the end of the day, like, this is... It's okay, I'll freak out, it's just... Whatever, it's just very annoying. So I don't want to lose any more fingers. I just don't want to lose any fingers. I'm over it, I'm over the trigger.
I think it was Mike Harvey, who was the makeup designer, and he started calling it poop finger and it caught like wildfire, and everybody started saying it, and then they, yeah, that's the name of it now. It's on the call sheet. It's a number on the call sheet.
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The Ghoul (Walton Goggins) ends up cutting off Lucy's finger off as payback for when she bites his off, but she ends up getting a new one from a medical robot. This new appendage ends up sticking with Lucy throughout the remainder of season 1, and it's seemingly set to return in Fallout season 2, which reportedly started filming in November. It's likely that, during the time of her MegaCon comment, Purnell had already experienced a number of weeks of having Lucy's new finger painted on for production.
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Fallout season 2 doesn't yet have a release date, but filming will likely continue for much of this year. The filming and post-production pipeline for season 1 suggests the soonest season 2 could arrive is early 2026. The Fallout season 1 ending suggests that Lucy isn't out of the fray just yet, and that she will actually be embarking on a dangerous journey across the Wasteland with the Ghoul. After the two characters take each other's fingers in season 1, though, it seems like their new dynamic moving forward could be more amicable.
Our Take On Purnell's Fallout Finger Story
Fallout season 1 reviews were glowing from critics and show has been a major viewership success, meaning season 2 may not be the end of the road for Lucy. It's possible that Lucy's finger will eventually go back to looking somewhat normal the longer it stays attached to her body, or the finger could end up being replaced altogether with one that's less rotten. If that doesn't happen, however, Purnell could be dealing with some finger painting for many seasons to come.
Fallout season 1 currently has an impressive 94% score on Rotten Tomatoes.
One of the reasons why Fallout succeeded as a show was due to its unique tone. Lucy so casually getting her finger cut off was both graphic and darkly comedic, and the fact that she now has a gross new finger speaks to the show's approach to violence. It remains to be seen what's to come with Fallout season 2, but, hopefully, this unique tonal balance makes a return.
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Release Date
April 10, 2024
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Lisa Joy, Jonathan Nolan
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Lisa Joy, Jonathan Nolan
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Fallout
