“Fallout” Coordinators Casey O’Neill and Josh Kemble on Rigging a Harness Inside NCR Power Armor

• Casey O’Neill and Josh Kemble coordinated the stunts on season two of “Fallout.”
• The NCR Power Armor needs a harness worn under the suit, and the performer can barely see or hear.
• They test what the suit can do first, then design the action around it.

Posted: August 24, 2026

Emmy-nominated Fallout stunt coordinators Casey O’Neill and Josh Kemble walk through season two’s creature and armor work, and the practical problems are the interesting part. Deathclaws and Securitrons are hybrid builds — a stunt performer inside the suit plus animatronics from Legacy Effects — with the Securitron needing three operators, one wheeling it and one on each arm, working in green suits across separate plate passes.

The season’s new element is NCR Power Armor, and the rigging is genuinely punishing. It requires “a very slim 6′4″ build that has to go inside of the suit,” and once in it, “you can’t really hear well, you can’t see well.” The harness goes on under the suit, and the team then has to hunt for holes to run wires through: “not only is the suit tight, but then the harness is tight. And so he’s in that all day and it’s not very easily to get out of.” Jeremy Fitzgerald and Tim Soergel — both Emmy-nominated for Outstanding Stunt Performance — split that duty. O’Neill’s note that “it’s hard enough even to be in the harness without anything on, let alone the suit” is the honest version of what that day costs a performer.

Their process runs capability-first: get a performer in the suit, test range of motion and punches, shoot a previs, then design only to what the suit can survive. That discipline paid off on a wire gag where the Power Armor leaps and knocks a Securitron’s hand off inside a set with a ceiling too low for comfortable flying — “Hey, I’m sorry, but the ceiling’s not very high in there.” “Don’t worry, we’ll figure it out.” Other set pieces include the Elvis Ghoul shootout with prosthetic-laden performers on wires, a contortionist beat, and a leg-blow-off gag built for Casey Pieretti, an amputee performer wearing a breakaway prosthetic that pops on cue. O’Neill credits the wider team — Josh, Ryan, Nicole and Jeremy — and notes production moved from season one’s New York, Utah and Namibia back to the California desert, shooting out near Baker.

Source: Awards Radar — Interview: Talking ‘Fallout’ Season Two Stunts with Casey O’Neill and Josh Kemble

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