Fallout Star Revealed Lucy's Original Brutal Season 1 Ending (They Changed It Later)

Summary:

• For most of Fallout Season 1, Ella Purnell’s Lucy is an unstoppable optimist who values her concept of “the golden center.”
• Her heart-breaking ending saw a dramatic character change, shaping Lucy into someone more like the Ghoul than herself.
• According to Ella Purnell, they had to reshoot the scene when they realized that their original emotional approach lacked gravitas.

Prime Video ’s Fallout TV show follows four main characters, but it wouldn’t be an exaggeration to say that fans are mostly focused on two.

The Ghoul’s enigmatic nature expectedly draws attention of both fictional characters and viewers, and Lucy’s oh-so-familiar journey from the safety of the Vault into the unforgiving Wastelands captivates the audiences new and old alike.

Warning: This article contains major spoilers for Fallout.

Lucy’s Season 1 Finale Was Overwhelming

Throughout Fallout Season 1, we as the audience got to know and love Lucy for her optimism, her ability to put one foot ahead of the other no matter the circumstances. She was a fighter and a beam of light in the otherwise hopeless Wasteland, someone who could never give up, break down, and abandon her vision of herself.

Lucy’s finale was quite the opposite: it brutally destroyed and reinvented her.

“The part that was really difficult was her shooting her mother. <...> It’s a mercy kill. I said, ‘But how do I show the audience that it’s a mercy kill?’ While also holding onto rage. At that point, she’s so angry, actually. Her numbness has given way to rage… She has to go through the five stages of grief in such a short amount of time,” Ella Purnell shared with GQ.

Lucy’s Original Ending Was Changed Later

Seeing how Lucy’s character remained consistently optimistic until that point, you’d expect her breaking to be an overwhelming stream of despair — and that’s exactly what the original version of her ending was.

However, it lacked the substance and the character change, so after thinking hard about an alternative, the team settled on the colder version of the scene.

“We originally shot me killing my mum as a really emotional moment; there were a lot of tears and wailing, and it just didn’t feel right. We felt like <...> her grief needs to give way to something harder. By killing her mum in a mercy kill, she’s doing exactly what the Ghoul did to Roger. She’s learnt from him. She has turned into him,” Purnell explained.

The most dramatic change in Lucy was her letting go of her “golden center,” the concept she clung to for the entire season before. Ella Purnell admits she doesn’t know what Lucy will turn into in Season 2, but she’ll definitely never be the same.

Source: GQ