Summary

  • Aaron Paul not only attended the Fallout TV show premiere, but also a New Vegas launch event over a decade ago
  • Signs point to the Breaking Bad star being cast in the second season, and I'd honestly love to see it.
  • Some of Paul's other credits include Kingsglaive: Final Fantasy 15, Help I'm A Fish, and some indie show called Breaking Bad.

14 years ago, Aaron Paul attended a promotional event for Fallout: New Vegas prior to its 2010 launch. He isn’t in the game, nor has he spoken about it publicly before, but perhaps there is a deeper connection between Breaking Bad’s Jesse Pinkman and Fallout than meets the eye.

This feels especially prescient because, in an interview with IGN, producer Jonathan Nolan confirmed that not only was Paul at the premiere for the Amazon show, but he also expressed interest in being a part of the second season. My theory is that he was invited to the Fallout: New Vegas launch event following his explosion of fame starring as Jesse, and it was some sort of getaway into playing the series. In the 14 years since, Paul has become something of a die-hard fan.

Fallout wouldn’t be Aaron Paul’s first video game rodeo either. He previously played the leading role in Final Fantasy 15: Kingsglaive. He was also in a TV show called The Division, and although it’s unrelated to the Ubisoft series, it’s still fun to pretend it was.

“Yeah, Aaron Paul was at the premiere, a human being I love so much,” Nolan said. “And he was very polite. He was very enthusiastic about the show. There was sort of an unspoken kind of like, ‘What’s up, man?’ But we’ve been hearing from so many people, and it’s kind of fun to see the Fallout fans come out of the woodwork. People you’ve known a long time and you realize, ‘Oh, you’ve been playing this whole time.’”

Paul can be seen at a New Vegas event pointing at neon signs of the game logo and posing in front of what appears to be the giant dinosaur building found in Novac. It’s surreal in how it harkens back to a time where developers and publishers wouldn’t hesitate to involve random actors in the promotion of their products, because surely any name big enough can earn you the right kind of publicity. It’s like when Zac Efron appeared at the Halo 3 launch event while High School Musical was taking over the world. He and Paul are two peas in a gamer pod.

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He seems like a good sport, and whenever he’s roped into promotional events like this he is keen to make it look like more than an easy paycheque. According to a chat with Gamespot at the time, he took the role in Kingsglaive because it sounded like an interesting opportunity, which spurred on a desire to actually play the franchise he had become a part of. Except he said he’d probably start from the first one, which is a rookie move if I ever saw one.

Paul also played a part in the later seasons of Westworld, which would explain his friendship with Nolan. So it could just be a very happy coincidence that he went to make Fallout and the Breaking Bad star happened to attend a launch party for one of the games years ago.

The coincidences don’t stop there, as the first season even ends with a teaser for New Vegas. Maybe the neon lights of the Strip summon Paul from the aether.

Regardless of how correct I definitely am, he’d be a perfect addition to the cast. Despite ending over a decade ago now, Breaking Bad remains a constant fixture of popular culture, and Aaron Paul along with it. I loved his work in BoJack Horseman too, which single-handedly showed us that Paul has so much range as an actor that he could easily bring to something like Fallout.

He could introduce a fourth perspective to the show, possibly from a faction outside of New Vegas where he tried to escape prior to its eventual devastation. There are so many directions this casting could go. This is some real Butterfly Effect shenanigans and I love it.

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Fallout 3

Action RPG Systems Released October 28, 2008 ESRB M for Mature: Blood and Gore, Intense Violence, Sexual Themes, Strong Language, Use of Drugs Developer(s) Bethesda Game Studios Publisher(s) Bethesda Softworks Engine Gamebryo Franchise Fallout
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Fallout 3 takes place in a ruined area around Washington D.C. two hundred years after the Great War. In a game met with critical acclaim, you must traverse this wasteland looking for your father, while solving the mystery of his disappearance.

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