Arcane and Fallout Star Ella Purnell Doesn’t Want to Be Typecast As A ‘Video Game Girl’

Lately, video crippled adaptations person been, arsenic the kids say, slapping. What was erstwhile a inclination of expensive, overhyped shows with diminishing returns has present go award-winners with shows similar The Last of Us, Fallout, and Arcane. This displacement tin beryllium attributed to coagulated scripts and absorption that transcend specified reproductions of their predecessors and the prima powerfulness down these works, which has elevated the once-derogatory creation signifier to unprecedented heights.

One specified star, Ella Purnell, who has risen to prominence arsenic Lucy MacLean successful Prime Video’s Fallout and Jinx successful Netflix’s Arcane TV shows, has stated that she does not privation to beryllium known simply arsenic a “video crippled girl.” Speaking astatine a sheet astatine London’s MCM x EGX (first reported by Popverse), Purnell candidly expressed that she doesn’t privation to beryllium constricted to video crippled adaptations, adjacent though she’s had large occurrence with them.

“Here’s the truth, and I consciousness blameworthy saying this, but I’m not a gamer, and I don’t cognize however I’ve managed to onshore 2 video crippled adaptations that person some been good. I don’t cognize however that’s happened, but it has. I don’t cognize the answer,” Purnell said, regarding her presumption successful gaming culture.

She continued: “I really deliberation I request to enactment distant from video crippled adaptations now, due to the fact that I’m going to get typecast. I’m going to beryllium the video crippled girl. There are worse things to beryllium than that, I suppose.”

Purnell’s sentiment is wholly understandable, considering her acting vocation didn’t commencement erstwhile Arcane and Fallout premiered successful 2021 and 2024, respectively. Her acting vocation dates backmost to 2010, and her non-video crippled successful shows similar Showtimes play Yellowjackets and Starz’s thriller TV bid Sweetpea showcase immoderate of her champion work. While Purnell seemed to spot her presumption successful gaming portion not being a gamer arsenic a demerit, she shouldn’t, considering Fallout co-star Walton Goggins famously didn’t play immoderate of the games and inactive came retired of the amusement arsenic a fan-favorite quality successful the Ghoul.

“I ne'er played the game. So erstwhile this benignant of came my way, I didn’t privation to play it ’cause I didn’t privation to beryllium influenced by immoderate mentation of the Ghoul is successful the games,” Goggins told GamesRadar+ successful an April interview.

Ella Purnell, a treble nominee for some @FalloutonPrime and @Arcaneshow, volition articulation america unrecorded connected Thursday nighttime for #TheGameAwards

Don’t miss the escaped planetary livestream everywhere, starting astatine 7:30p ET / 4:30p PT / 12:30a GMT. pic.twitter.com/EjiMV9QmuT

— Geoff Keighley (@geoffkeighley) December 9, 2024

Regardless, Purnell’s soundbite couldn’t person travel astatine a funnier infinitesimal successful the expansive strategy of things, considering Purnell is simply a shoo-in to triumph astatine the Game Awards contiguous for champion video crippled adaptation, with  some Fallout and Arcane nominated. Moreover, Purnell is acceptable to look astatine the grant show, too–hopefully, she won’t person anyone gully attraction to her just instrumentality arsenic an histrion successful immoderate drawn-out tight-five-esque drama spot during the proceedings.

If each of this has you champing astatine the spot to cognize erstwhile Purnell’s pursuing shows volition beryllium dropping, we’ve got you covered. Yellowjackets play 3 is slated to premiere connected February 14. Likewise, Fallout play 2 is expected to merchandise sometime successful 2026 and, of course, Arcane is present streaming successful its entirety connected Netflix.

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