{"id":85315,"date":"2025-12-07T19:36:09","date_gmt":"2025-12-07T19:36:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/85315\/"},"modified":"2025-12-07T19:36:09","modified_gmt":"2025-12-07T19:36:09","slug":"fallout-team-says-10-crew-members-lost-homes-in-california-wildfires","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/85315\/","title":{"rendered":"‘Fallout’ Team Says 10 Crew Members Lost Homes In California Wildfires"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tAs Fallout<\/a> changed locations from one coast to the other for Season 2, the production was faced with the catastrophic California wildfires<\/a> earlier this year.<\/p>\n

\n\tWhile discussing the Prime Video<\/a> show\u2019s sophomore season, the cast and creators explained to Deadline how \u201ca number of amazing people banded together\u201d in the aftermath of the fires, which claimed 10 \u201creally special\u201d crew members\u2019 homes.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cWe hadn\u2019t quite noticed how much production had left California<\/a> because we were shooting California pretty steadily for the last 10 years,\u201d noted co-creator Graham Wagner<\/a> after the show relocated with a $25 million CA tax credit<\/a>. <\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cAfter the fires and so many of our crew members, I think it was 10, lost their homes in the fires while we were shooting, we [shut] down for a week or two, in order to kind of allow everyone to figure out,\u201d he explained. \u201cSo many more crew members were displaced from their homes for some time, that we really started wrestling with in the aftermath of that, this larger question of how much production had left California. The fires really felt like one of these incipient moments where it\u2019s going to go one way or the other, when you\u2019re asking people to rebuild and the industry is not there for them anymore.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tOne of several Los Angeles productions to temporarily shut down amid the fires<\/a>, Fallout resumed filming<\/a> at Melody Ranch in Santa Clarita after several wildfires burned<\/a> through Southern California in January, which resulted in at least 31 deaths and upwards of $53.8 billion of property damage.<\/p>\n

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\t\t\t\t\tElla Purnell in \u2018Fallout\u2019 Season 2<\/p>\n

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\n\tWagner added, \u201cIt was a really scary moment and a number of amazing people sort of banded together at that point to try to figure out, coming out of the fires, how do we go about reversing the pattern which had been there since I moved to LA 20 years ago, 25 years ago, of more and more production leaving the state. And hopefully now with a revised and revamped tax credit<\/a> program, we\u2019re gonna be competitive again and we\u2019re gonna see more and more production coming back to LA. So, we won\u2019t be alone shooting the end of the world here.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tCo-creator Geneva Robertson-Dworet<\/a> praised her partner, who has \u201cdone so much to bring production back here to LA and also California generally.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tFallout star Aaron Moten<\/a>, who plays Maximus, praised production designer\/executive producer Howard Cummings<\/a> and his \u201cbrilliant\u201d team for making the best use of the show\u2019s new locale.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cIt just felt like he was flexing this year, really getting to create these amazing sets, some of which we only are on for like six or eight hours shooting. \u2026 It\u2019s all these worlds that we get to create, that I know that the move was a good thing for the show in terms of where we were going this year,\u201d said Moten.<\/p>\n

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\t\t\t\t\tAaron Moten in \u2018Fallout\u2019 Season 2<\/p>\n

\n\tMoten also acknowledged it was \u201ca really rough year in California, when we filmed\u201d as he reflected on the bittersweet experience filming in the Golden State.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cWe had some really special people lose their homes, and at the same time, a lot of people don\u2019t get the opportunity these days to work out of their home that they bought in California,\u201d he added. \u201cIt felt like a nice homecoming for a lot of people, even though I was coming from Iceland. I moved from there to be out here.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tWalton Goggins<\/a>, who reprises his role as The Ghoul\/Cooper Howard, echoed the sentiment as he expressed \u201ca lot of gratitude\u201d to have a chance to film in California.<\/p>\n

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\t\t\t\t\tWalton Goggins as Cooper Howard in \u2018Fallout\u2019<\/p>\n

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\n\t\u201cTo go to work on the very first day and to look out and see a crew this big all living in Los Angeles, and to know what that means for their family to work at home because this city has suffered greatly\u2014aside from natural disasters, the loss of business in this state,\u201d explained Goggins. \u201cTo be a part of this show and have this show be filmed here, it was, I think, emotional for a lot of people, and we were all grateful to the state of California for giving us the opportunity to work here, and I know Jonah and a lot of people worked hard to make that happen.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tSeason 2 of Fallout, premiering Dec. 17 on Prime Video, follows Lucy MacLean (Ella Purnell) and The Ghoul as they venture to New Vegas to find her father Hank (Kyle McLachlan) and bring him to justice over his part in nuking Shady Sands. Meanwhile, Cooper hopes to find his wife and child.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"As Fallout changed locations from one coast to the other for Season 2, the production was faced with…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":85316,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[7,14147,9,8,3936,37603,1899],"class_list":["post-85315","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-california","tag-california","tag-california-film-television-tax-credit-program","tag-california-headlines","tag-california-news","tag-california-wildfires","tag-fallout","tag-tax-credit"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85315","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=85315"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85315\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/85316"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=85315"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=85315"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=85315"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}