If you happen to had been beginning to assume that Ella Purnell was set to grow to be some kind of gaming icon, you may be devastated to listen to she ain’t actually into video video games and want to cease touchdown online game roles after Fallout and Arcane.
By way of Popverse, we have realized that, whereas talking at MCM x EGX 2024, she briefly mentioned how fortunate she was to have landed the roles of Lucy and Jinx within the two hit reveals, but in addition expressed her disinterest in venturing additional into the world of online game variations.
“Right here’s the reality, and I really feel responsible saying this, however I’m not a gamer, and I don’t understand how I’ve managed to land two online game variations which have each been good. I don’t understand how that’s occurred, however it has. I don’t know the reply,” she defined. This goes towards earlier assumptions she was a little bit of an informal gamer after expressing curiosity in Fallout video games and lore past the scripts she was given for season one of many collection.
I imply, she’s not fallacious. Whereas online game variations, each animated and live-action, have actually gone up in high quality total lately, we nonetheless get loads of stinkers, such because the totally dreadful Borderlands flick that lastly got here out this summer time. With Hollywood now doubling down on video video games as the following large factor in common materials to mine for gold, we have to keep in mind that does not mechanically imply that almost all variations will all of the sudden be good. In reality, we’re nonetheless shocked by how nice Fallout season one was.
One other drawback for actors with getting too snug doing quite a lot of work inside a single area is that, more often than not, they begin being typecast, and when that properly inevitably dries up, their careers take a success. Purnell is properly conscious of that and desires to keep away from it if potential: “I really assume I must avoid online game variations now, as a result of I’m going to get typecast. I’m going to be the online game woman. There are worse issues to be than that, I suppose.” With big TV reveals like Yellowjackets and Sweetpea exhibiting she’s acquired loads to supply outdoors a few of gaming’s most well-known universes, that looks as if the precise transfer.
Thoughts you, this does not imply Purnell is finished with online game variations; Jinx may nonetheless be alive after Arcane season 2’s occasions and present up in future League of Legends reveals, and Prime Video’s Fallout (now taking pictures its second season) will most likely go on for just a few extra years. Simply do not count on her to seize extra all-new tasks like these. I am pretty certain no different actor can say they’ve starred in implausible online game variations.
