Fallout stars Moisés Arias (Norm) and Sarita Choudhury (Moldaver) talk Fallout season 1 spoilers, as well as how we could see them in Fallout season 2.
Based on one of the greatest video game series of all time, Fallout is the story of haves and have-nots in a world in which there’s almost nothing left to have. 200 years after the apocalypse, the gentle denizens of luxury fallout shelters are forced to return to the irradiated hellscape their ancestors left behind — and are shocked to discover an incredibly complex, gleefully weird and highly violent universe waiting for them.
We caught up with Moisés Arias (Norm) and Sarita Choudhury (Moldaver) to talk about the massive success of Fallout season 1. Because it is all currenly available to stream on Prime Video, we were able to dive into spoilers as well, so if you have not finished watching, be warned, Fallout season 1 spoilers are ahead. We also discuss ideas on how their characters could come back for Fallout season 2, and what they would like to see in the future.
Fallout Cast Talks Season 1 Spoilers & Season 2
Tessa Smith: Norm is basically the catalist to discovering what exactly is happening in the vaults. What was your reaction to realizing you were such a major player in the series?
Moisés Arias: It’s special because I think we’re connecting all these things through all the stories, but more in your face with Norm. Reading it, I was discovering it as we’re discovering it, watching as an audience and it was super special to see Norm’s inquisitive nature. Also his need to grow out of that fearful personality that he has and to finally use that to unveil some secrets.
Tessa Smith: What was it like filming the vault 31 stuff?
Moisés Arias: That was fantastic. It was all in one day, so it was a very early day to a very late evening. Shooting with the robot is not easy. But I think that translates. It’s literally what happened on camera. The robot was moving at that speed, so how can I be afraid at half a mile an hour? All these things just help you respond and react accordingly.
Tessa Smith: If you were in the vault, would you also go searching for answers?
Moisés Arias: I can’t see myself just chilling, to be honest, especially after my dad’s gone, and my sister decided to go rescue him. And I didn’t help. I would feel the need to help in some sort of way.
Tessa Smith: Critics and fans are loving the Fallout series. How does that feel?
Moisés Arias: It’s super special. To see fans of the show embrace and love this original story in the Fallout universe is awesome. It’s rare to to create something in a world that is so vast and so big, like Fallout is with so many years of history behind it. And to have people say that it’s just like the game, or even the things that we saw in person, was the ability for us to react to something real.
Tessa Smith: Fallout season 2, where do you think things could go for Norm?
Moisés Arias: I hope he outsmarts something. I think he has to use all his weight, all his intelligence to get out of that one. Bud’s buds, there are a lot of them. It’s a gang. One of them is my dad. I think he’s gonna have to figure out what is best. I don’t know that 200 years frozen is a fantastic scenario.
Tessa Smith: I know you are a fan of the Fallout games, so what was your reaction to learning the series was going to reference New Vegas?
Moisés Arias: Yeah, I read it but seeing it as a different story. It’s awesome. It’s so cool that people are having conversations about it.
Tessa Smith: I love how we start off not really liking Moldaver, but then realize she is the good person. What was it like reading how your arc was going to go?
Sarita Choudhury: When Jonathan Nolan told me about the project, and the two writers, Geneva and Graham, they told me this. Because I don’t know if I would have signed up just for the first level [of her]. It made me excited because it’s so much fun to play a character at the beginning. Even friends are watching the show, and haven’t reached the end, the things they’re saying to me, like I can’t believe it, You’re so evil. I don’t say anything. I go, I know. And then they’ll call me be like, Oh! And I was like I KNOW.
Tessa Smith: Did you play the Fallout games?
Sarita Choudhury: I didn’t. I can see you are a gamer because you’re asking.
Tessa Smith: What was it like stepping onto that set, because it is just like the games.
Sarita Choudhury: I wish you could have stepped in it. What’s crazy, even if you haven’t played the games, because everything is green screen nowadays, to step into a set that has been built. Like usually also unset when you’re doing filming, after three, four hours, you’re a bit bored, right? I was never bored because watching the men turn the entrance, I could have sat there for hours just looking at the interior of the 1950s style vaults and all the little props.
Tessa Smith: You get to play in both worlds. Pre and post war — what was that like?
Sarita Choudhury: What was really fun was playing her was in episodes six and seven, as a scientist. Wearing that tweed skirt and a turtleneck and the glasses with my little notepad and dealing with Cooper, who he’s so talented — Walton Goggins. I love those scenes. They were shot in such huge grandeaur buildings where the doors are double sized, making an echo sound and the heels make sounds as they walk. I love those kinds of movies. Usually you as an actor you have to pretend where you are, but it was the opposite. The exterior was giving it to me. I loved it.
Tessa Smith: You died at the end, which is devastating, but there are a lot of flashbacks in this show. Season 2, will we see you return?
Sarita Choudhury: Definitely. I’m kind of in awe of what they did, especially with the actors they hired across the board. So interesting and entertaining and funny. But also the music. The editing. The music editing. The way and it’s never expected. Just when you think oh no, and then music comes on as you watch a bloody head.
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About Fallout
Based on one of the greatest video game series of all time, Fallout is the story of haves and have-nots in a world in which there’s almost nothing left to have. 200 years after the apocalypse, the gentle denizens of luxury fallout shelters are forced to return to the irradiated hellscape their ancestors left behind — and are shocked to discover an incredibly complex, gleefully weird and highly violent universe waiting for them.
From executive producers Jonathan Nolan and Lisa Joy, the creators of Westworld, starring Ella Purnell, Aaron Moten, Walton Goggins and more.
All episodes of Fallout Season 1 are now streaming on Prime Video.
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Tessa Smith is a Rotten Tomatoes Tomatometer-approved Film and TV Critic. She is also a Freelance Writer. Tessa has been in the Entertainment writing business for ten years and is a member of several Critics Associations including the Critics Choice Association and the Greater Western New York Film Critics Association.