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‘Fallout’ season 2 casts Macaulay Culkin in recurring role
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‘Fallout’ season 2 casts Macaulay Culkin in recurring role

Prime Video’s “Fallout” didn’t forget Macaulay Culkin. The ‘Home Alone’ star has booked a recurring role on season 2 of the Emmy-nominated drama, Variety has confirmed. There are no details yet about Culkin’s character in the series, but Deadline, which broke the news, wrote that it will be a “crazy genius type.”

The series is based on the video game franchise of the same name and is set two hundred years after the apocalypse. The official description states that it “follows the friendly inhabitants of luxury bomb shelters who are forced to return to the irradiated hellscape their ancestors left behind – and are shocked to discover that an incredibly complex, cheerfully strange and deeply violent universe awaits them .”

Culkin’s recent credits include providing a voice in “The Second Best Hospital in the Galaxy,” as well as multiple episodes of “The Righteous Gemstones” and as part of the cast of “American Horror Story: Double Feature.”

Ella Purnell stars in “Fallout” alongside Aaron Moten, Kyle MacLachlan, Walton Goggins, Moisés Arias, Sarita Choudhury, Michael Emerson, Leslie Uggams, Frances Turner, Dave Register, Zach Cherry, Johnny Pemberton, Rodrigo Luzzi, Annabel O’Hagan, and Xelia Mendes-Jones.

Earlier this year, “Fallout” was nominated for 17 Emmy awards, including Outstanding Drama Series, Outstanding Writing and Outstanding Lead Actor for star Goggins. It won one, for outstanding music accompaniment.

Geneva Robertson-Dworet and Graham Wagner are the creators, executive producers and showrunners. Jonathan Nolan and Lisa Joy are producing through Kilter Films, which has an overall deal with Amazon. Kilter Films’ Athena Wickham also serves as executive producer, along with Todd Howard for Bethesda Game Studios and James Altman for Bethesda Softworks. Amazon MGM Studios and Kilter Films are producing in association with Bethesda Game Studios and Bethesda Softworks.

According to Amazon, the series attracted 65 million viewers in its first 16 days of availability, with the first season ending in its entirety on April 10. The show, from Kilter Films, was quickly picked up for a season 2.