‘Fallout’ Star Frances Turner Talks About Fashion, Travel and Law

Acting was not Frances Turner’s first choice of profession. The Cornell and Georgetown Law School graduate practiced law before switching tracks several years ago. The analytical thinking and research skills gleaned from legal training are put to good use, when the “Fallout” actress is developing new characters. “I’m like an investigator in certain ways by bringing a level of intellectual curiosity and intellect,” Turner says. “Then my artist brings the truth to that.”A fast thinker, who considers the macro and micro aspects of a subject simultaneously, Turner says she also leans into what’s not being said or shown to dig into different levels of a character. As “Barb Howard” on Amazon Prime’s “Fallout,” Turner says she is excited to learn more about her character, why she makes the choices that she does and how she walks “this moral-ethical tightrope.” Loving and caring as “Barb” is for her family, she also is navigating the complexities of business and corporate policies. “As everyone in the world of ‘Fallout’ in pre-war 2077 knows, the situation is precarious,” she says. “She also has additional information because of her position at Vault-Tec. This year we’re going to see more of her interior life and how she balances all of

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