Fallout’s Ella Purnell and Angelina Jolie Did a Movie Together & You Never Realized
After Ella Purnell’s huge breakthrough with Fallout, you’ll be surprised to learn that her acting career effectively started by co-starring with Angelina Jolie herself!
Summary:
- In Prime Video ’s Fallout, Ella Purnell played the lead role of Lucy MacLean, a daring Vault Dweller who ventured into the Wasteland to save her father.
- In 2014, 18-year-old Purnell’s acting career received a major boost: she played the young Maleficent in Angelina Jolie’s movie of the same name.
- Other Fallout actors also got the recognition they long deserved: Walton Goggins, the Ghoul actor, has starred in over 100 projects by then!
Prime Video’s latest sensation, the Fallout TV show sparked a new interest to the iconic video game franchise in millions of people who haven’t even heard about it previously — and launched quite a few careers sky-high. One of the show’s lead stars, Ella Purnell (Lucy MacLean) found herself under the spotlight thanks to it…
Except that in 2014, the young actress was already working with Angelina Jolie.
Ella Purnell Starred in Maleficent
You read it right: the Fallout lead star did a movie with Angelina Jolie back in the day, and not just any movie. 2014’s Maleficent, one of Jolie’s last movies before she effectively quit acting, saw Ella Purnell play the same character as the former queen of Hollywood — Purnell starred in it as the younger version of Maleficent herself.
Maleficent wasn’t the young actress’ first rodeo, either. Before that, in 2010, she starred in minor roles in Never Let Me Go and Ways to Live Forever; in 2011, in Intruders and Candy; and in 2013, she played Dolce in Kick-Ass 2. But Maleficent became her first gig with an A-list star of Jolie’s level… Even if no one remembers it.
Fallout Revealed Many Talented Actors
Apart from those whose faces we see in every other movie, the world in general and Hollywood in particular are full of immensely talented actors who don’t get their chances to shine in lead roles. At least for some of them, Prime Video’s Fallout fixed this problem, and Ella Purnell wasn’t the only prominent star who won a lot from it.
Walton Goggins, for one, received the long-deserved acclaim for his immaculate performance as Cooper Howard aka the Ghoul. Before Fallout, Goggins starred in over 100 flicks, including Vice Principals and Justified which both brought him prestigious awards, but it’s only with the success of his latest post-apocalyptic outing that the actor finally gained the recognition he had been working so hard for.