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For Fallout star Moisés Arias, his breakout role on Hannah Montana has stuck with him — even now as an adult.
Premiering in 2006, when the actor was 12 years old, Arias appeared on the Disney Channel series about a young girl living a double life as a famous pop singer and normal teenager in disguise. He played Rico Suave alongside Miley Cyrus as the titular star and her alter ego, Emily Osment as Lily Truscott, Billy Ray Cyrus as Robby Ray Stewart, Jason Earles as Jackson Stewart and Mitchel Musso as Oliver Oken.
While the series, which included an original movie and concert tours, concluded after four seasons in 2011, the fandom surrounding the franchise has not faded in the nearly 15 years since. In fact, the cast has garnered headlines over the years for their physical transformation, thanks to pics shared on Instagram, with Arias mostly recently the subject of media stories in June 2025 for his shirtless selfies.
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“I think it’s happened a couple of times,” Arias, now 31, tells PEOPLE while promoting season 2 of the post-apocalyptic Prime Video series, which returns on Tuesday, Dec. 16. “Every four or five years, it’s like, ‘This is them now, feel old yet?’ I think it’s been happening for like 15 years. I can’t recall a week that it hasn’t happened.”
That said, the actor acknowledges that Hannah Montana was a formative show for both fans and him alike. “It was a time not only in the audience, like, in the fans’ lives, but in mine,” Arias explains, adding that “it’s a feeling of growing up together.” The series, he says, “was the craziest mix of television and live shows, I think, ever. And I think the music really affects it, so you just don’t forget.”
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Despite the cast getting older and going off to experience success beyond Hannah Montana — with Cyrus, 33, shooting to superstardom, Earles, 48, appearing on High School Musical: The Musical: The Series, Musso, 34, lending his voice to Phineas and Ferb and Osment, 33, starring on Georgie & Mandy’s First Marriage — Arias says that they still reunite from time to time.
“Every couple years we try to get together,” he shares, revealing that “the last time I saw Emily was last year and it was great because it was for her respective show and mine coming together for a celebration, and seeing her there unexpectedly was super cool.”
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“I hadn’t seen her in five, six years,” Arias continues, explaining, “I compare it to high school and college, you know. It’s like you were there for four years, literally us as well, and now you’re doing whatever and it’s great to see.”
For Arias, that is returning to the screen as a vault dweller named Norm MacLean, who ends season 1 of Fallout by learning the truth about the war that led to the nuclear fallout in America. He also became trapped in a neighboring vault after discovering who has secretly been running that space as part of an overarching experiment involving him and the remaining colony of survivors.
“He got himself in a predicament. Norm is stuck in Vault 31 with a brain on a Roomba, he’s dehydrated and he’s hungry. Who knows how long he’s been there and he’s really just on his last wits” Arias says of the character’s state of mind when things pick up in the premiere, especially now that he’s come to “all these realizations” about the world he’s been living in.
Fallout season 2 is now streaming on Prime Video, with new episodes debuting Wednesdays through Feb. 4, 2026.
