Ron Perlman Says He Did The Fallout Intro For $40 And A Sandwich,... (2026)
Perlman has uttered the famous four-word intro in nearly every Fallout game, but beyond that? No thanks.
Walton Goggins, star of the Fallout TV series on Prime, has never played Fallout and doesn't want to. You know who else has never played Fallout and doesn't want to? Ron Perlman. In an interview on the Joe Vulpis Podcast last week, Perlman made it clear: He doesn't know, he doesn't care, he just wants his 40 bucks and his sandwich.
Perlman is a very well known actor, with dozens of television and movie credits going back to the 1970s, but he's also very prolific as a voice actor in animation and videogames. Mobygames lists 33 titles with a Ron Perlman appearance, including Icewind Dale: Heart of Winter, The Chronicles of Riddick: Escape From Butcher Bay, Halo 3, Call of Duty: Black Ops 3, and of course the Fallout games.
His turns in Fallout are especially interesting because they're his most iconic videogame work, and yet it's only four simple words: "War. War never changes." The intro to each Fallout game spins off differently from there, but those four words are an essential pillar of the series, every bit as thematically foundational as power armor or Nuka Cola.
Perlman lent his voice to those famous four words in every Fallout game from the original to New Vegas and Fallout 76 (Bethesda had the player voice actors do the line in Fallout 4, for some reason). But has he ever thought about playing any of them? He has not. And he's not going to.
"I'm not a gamer," Perlman says in the interview. "I wouldn't know how to put a game—I wouldn't know which game goes into which piece of hardware. I've never played any of the games. The whole Fallout thing is a mystery to me."
It's a mystery Perlman's had plenty of time to ponder: Fallout's come a long way from its humble beginnings nearly 30 years ago, from an oddball isometric RPG to a hit series on Amazon. It's just that, well, he doesn't seem to care.
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"They invited me to do the very first Fallout back in the '90s, I think. They gave me $40 and a sandwich. And a year and a half later, I get a call: 'Hey, you remember Fallout?'"
"'Well, there's a second one.' I go, 'Why?' 'Because the first one went through the fucking roof.' I go, 'Really? Cool.' Do the second one, and then a year later the third, fourth, and now it's like a whole brand. I didn't see that coming."
Source: PC Gamer
