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He encourages us to share not just our day job but our practice.
Id rather hear that youre a writer instead of whatever shitty job you work, he says.
Purnell says shes an actor.
Purnell smiles at the instructors bad jokes while trying, and somewhat failing, to follow the intricate steps.
We sit with lumps of clay in front of us, giggling in embarrassment at our amateurism.
Its postapocalyptic setting influenced a new era of computer games set in the future instead of the past.
We meet Lucy in 2296, a couple of centuries after the bombs dropped.
Lucys fearlessness and determination emerge early.
she chirps, as she often does.
She realizes shes capable of brutality.
Lucys concept of morality begins to crumble here honesty becomes something more complex.
There were so many memorable days working with Ella, but none more than the first, Goggins says.
Goggins recalls director and executive producer Jonathan Nolan moving fast on set to beat the heat.
We were all figuring out who these people were separately and together, he says.
Every take Ella did was a home run.
It is not easy to be dunked in the water for ten hours straight.
Purnell is strikingly self-assured in person.
Im not 100 percent cynical yet, but Im definitely weathered, she says.
(I couldnt tell you exactly what he does, she says.)
When she was 18, she had to decide if she wanted to keep acting.
I was like,Okay, Im done with school.
Acting was a fun little side hustle thats going to fund my gap year.
Im gonna travel the world and find myself, she says, laughing.
I wouldnt say I did.
I drank a lot.
I saw a lot of Australia very drunk.
She wore a fake septum piercing that she told everyone was real.
I was trying on all these different personalities that were actually mine.
They werent characters, she says.
And I got it, she says.
Choosing the movie, she says, was kind of bittersweet.
She stands by her decision: Looking back, its exactly what should have happened.
Im glad I stuck with acting.
Now I love it.
Now I choose to do it.
I had to figure that out by myself.
I have a friend who just wants to be an action star.
She works out like crazy.
She exclusively auditions for action films.
I dont have that, Purnell says.
(She isreportedlyset to star in a comedy-horror film from Craig Roberts about killer squirrels.
)Aaron Moten, herFalloutco-star, considers Purnell an incredible advocate for everyone on set.
Shes kind of built for it mentally, he says.
When shes not acting, Purnell says, shes pretty introverted.
Thats my little life, and I want to find joy in that, she says.
Purnell got a kick out of it.
I was terrified and really upset.
I felt like I couldnt leave the house, I was so embarrassed.
Family members even texted to congratulate her.
Im aware thatFallouthas increased my profile and my visibility.
I see my Instagram follower count rising.
But this is all being processed on the outer shell of my brain, she says.
And if you hated it and hated me, I would feel the same way inside.
Because you cant let that affect you.
Otherwise, itll kill you.
Although she knows what its like: I have probably got lost in it before.
Ive cared too much about what I look like or about how paparazzi pictures come out.
Ive cared too much about my follower count or comparing myself to friends.
And its just misery-making.
I dont want to work with people I dont get on with.
My life is too short to be stuck for nine months in Arkansas with an asshole.
I just want to work with good people on stuff that I feel challenged by.
She craves risk and having something at stake.
I want to feel nervous.
I want to feel like I could fuck it up.
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