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they give you another vantage point. It's nice to work with other people that you also trust, so that you can have that sound board of advice, and then maybe figure out how to do things another way that you hadn't before, because somebody else has experienced that too. What costumes did you enjoy working with? Holtzman: There were a lot of great costumes as far as a Costumer and the work that we had to do. It was challenging because a lot of these costumes in the post-apocalyptic world, tons of pieces. There's a group called the Khans, and they have 20 pieces each; and trying to put all that stuff in Sync [On Set] and get it all done, it took us a while. Especially with our trailer person taking care of number one, and not always able to do that. We all tried to help when we could. I remember one day, I think it was just Walton, Lori, and I were like, 'Okay, we just need to get through this rack that's been siing on our truck for a month of all these costumes of these 10 people,' and we just hammered it out. It took a while because it's a lot of pieces for each person to describe it, photo it, and get it all in there. 22 SUMMER 2026 Brotherhood of Steel The Brotherhood of Steel was established in Season 1 as a zealot-led militia group that seeks to control technology of the world, but this season, we have a meeting of all the chapters from across the country showing that they are a larger group than we might have thought before. They have different uniforms distinguishing their rank within the Brotherhood (Squire, Initiate, Knight, Paladin, Sentinel, and Elder) and the color variations of this season tell us which chapter these people belong to and where they come from. Youland: One of my projects was the palette creation for the Brotherhood [of Steel] because there are several new factions, chapters, that are in the new season. We had to create a color palette for each one so that they're recognizable and there is a difference. Dayna had certain ideas of what they would be, and we would dye those colors on the fabrics that were intended for that chapter, and she would look at them and weed things out and change direction and then we would finally just narrow it down. That was the very first task I got when I was there and I'm still trying to get set up and Dayna was looking to work out those palettes. I remember being almost a little bit nervous about it because it was the very first thing to work on with the designer that I've never worked with before and they needed stuff fast. All the materials that they have are these heavier canvas materials, and to get these deeper, richer tones on a heavier canvas material, it takes longer. People don't always understand that and it was just so many different shades of so many different colors and that she was pleased with what she was getting, but it was sort of like a high anxiety the very first task to get it. It wasn't like, 'Hey, can you tech this stuff for us?' It was like. 'Now, we decide what the show looks like when you still got a bunch of stuff in boxes.' But it worked out well and I remember she brought this really cool little book—A Dictionary of Color Combinations. It's a study of colors that look good together, and it was a really interesting reference. It's four different factions of the Brotherhood, so you got the Brotherhood of Steel and then you have three other houses and each house had I believe four colors to itself. Something like that, and then we would have big giant canvas pieces, and they'd be like, can you make this deep purple color. 'Sure, it's gonna take me a minute, but I can do it.' McGunigle: Maximus had a new look this season. That one came together beautifully. I did the pattern and the fitting and all that. And then there was one day where we had to cobble together a multiple out of another existing Brotherhood piece and make it look like that one in like four hours. There were a lot of different Brotherhoods, we worked on a lot of different pieces to bring them all together with outside vendors. There were the Mojave and the Yosemite and Commonwealth Brotherhood. And there was sort of representatives of each of those groups, and each of those had an individual costume, but it was a look that reflected their station within the Brotherhood. So, we did a whole bunch of those things, too. And then when we did Xander, who was the East Coast Commonwealth Diplomat to the west, that was really fun. We had a couple days, maybe, to get something together to show the designer, show the direction, whether it be a mock-up, or whether it be actually in fabric, so she can really see what it's going to be. Things were coming at us real fast. Brachman: The Brotherhood has switched coasts because in the first season, they were on the East Coast, and now they're on the West Coast. And so. they manufactured new patches and new badges that had the sun rising in a different direction in a different side of the field of the patch. And we swapped out everything because we were like, not the same coast, it has to be different. There are little details where we all tried to really hone- in on the reality of the world. (Top) Paladin Xander Harkness (Kumail Nanjiani), comes to Area 51 as a Commonwealth emissary; (bottom) Xander's (Kumail Nanjiani) shirt on dress form.