Do you remember when Ella Purnell lost a finger in the first season of the Fallout TV show? Well, not her, but her character. It’s fair to say Purnell definitely does, as she’s keen not be be typecast going forwards as folks who end up losing digits, since it’d mean more time with a “poop finger”.
To be fair, it’s not just Lucy the vault dweller who’s lost a finger while Purnell was playing her, with the actress’ role as League of Legends show Arcane’s Jinx also seeing her part with an animated appendage. It’s not much, but it is weird that it’s happened twice. Though, hanging out with a ghoul bounty hunter can be a recipe for strange goings-on.
Well, speaking in a fairly jokey fashion at a recent IGN FanExpo, the actress very much gave the middle finger to the idea of potentially being typecast as, for lack of a better term, a finger loser.
“That would be one of the worst things to happen to me, purely because do you have any idea how annoying it is to have that finger painted on me every single day”, she said, referring the fact that if your character loses a finger in a live-action thing or has one replaced, the makeup team naturally has to do stuff to your finger to make it look like it’s in the right state to match.
“This finger is the bane of my life,” Purnell continued, “They paint it, right? This is the finger, I don’t know if you guys know this, that you use the most, for everything, all the time. Then you have to take it off, put it back on, it’s very annoying. I just have this poop finger all the time or I go to Whole Foods and I’m picking up the vegetables and people are looking at me like ‘Stop touching the vegetables with your poop finger’. It’s just terrible.”
Poop finger isn’t literal by the way – as far as we know – it’s just a fun term one of the Fallout series’ makeup designers came up for to describe what was being done to Purnell’s pointer.
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