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Christopher Livingston

'It was such a chore, every day': the surprising reason Ella Purnell was 'part of the biggest challenge' for the Fallout TV show's makeup department

A jumpsuit-clad Lucy, played by Ella Purnell, emerges from a vault in the Fallout TV series.

If you had to guess which actor presented the biggest challenge for makeup and prosthetics in Amazon's Fallout show, you'd probably pick The Ghoul: the rotting (yet charming) 200-year-old mutated Walton Goggins who's missing his nose and covered with scar tissue. It's a good guess: Goggins' prosthetics took months to develop and hours to apply each day of shooting, but according to Michael Harvey, makeup department head for Fallout, that wasn't the only challenge.

Ella Purnell, who played Vault Dweller Lucy, wound up being a major makeup challenge, too—just not for the reasons you might think.

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