If you think about actors who have starred in a bunch of videogame adaptations, Jack Black probably leaps to mind immediately, what with him starring in A Minecraft Movie, Borderlands, and The Super Mario Bros. Movie, all in the past few years.
But Breaking Bad’s Aaron Paul might be gunning for Jack Black’s crown, if they give crowns for “starring in a bunch of videogame stuff.” Paul was the lead in the Need for Speed movie in 2014 and played Nyx Ulric in the English version of animated film Kingsglaive: Final Fantasy XV in 2016. Now he’s adding a third videogame adaptation to his resume: Deadline reports that Paul will appear in Prime Video’s Fallout Season 3.
Makes sense: Paul worked with Fallout executive producer Jonathan Nolan on HBO’s Westworld series, and interestingly enough, Paul also joined that show in its third season. (He joined the cast of Invincible in Season 3, too. Maybe that’s just his thing now?)
It makes even more sense if you realize, as I just did, that he’s been hanging around the fringes of Fallout for a while. Like: more than 15 years. While looking for a Getty image for this story, I noticed that Paul was spotted by shutterbugs at the Fallout Season 2 screening in London in December of last year and the world premiere of Fallout Season 1 in Hollywood the year before that.
But even further back, Paul attended a Fallout: New Vegas launch event way back in 2010 at the Palms Casino Resort in Las Vegas. Maybe that’s how to get a role in a videogame adaptation: just keep hanging around until they invite you in?
There’s even a bit more Aaron Paul videogame stuff on the books. Notably, he had his first ever role in an actual game last year when he starred in Dispatch, and for a deeper cut, he also voiced a character named “Gamer691” in the “USS Callister” episode of Black Mirror.
I guess the big question now is, who will Aaron Paul play in Fallout: Season 3? I’m gonna guess it’ll be an original character, since only a handful of legacy characters have appeared on the show. Will he share screentime with Walton Goggins? I sure hope so—a quick search indicates they’ve never worked together, and I wouldn’t mind seeing them go nose-to-no-nose in a scene or two.
To celebrate Paul joining the cast, how about a Fallout version of that Breaking Bad meme?
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