‘Fallout’ Star Walton Goggins On His Dual Role As Cooper Howard And The Ghoul & His Time In The Makeup Chair
deadline.comWalton Goggins often portrays characters who transcend time and place, whether in modern day Kentucky, like in FX’s Justified, as career criminal Boyd Crowder, or in Civil War-era Wyoming in Quentin Tarantino’s The Hateful Eight, as plucky sheriff Billy Crash.
In Fallout, though, he goes further: as The Ghoul, he is 200-year-old apocalypse survivor Cooper Howard, once a favored Western movie star, now a mutant bounty hunter.
The two halves of this character combine in a captivating performance for which Goggins was happy to endure a torturous prosthetic. DEADLINE: How did you get involved with making Fallout? WALTON GOGGINS: It started with a conversation actually, a Zoom call, with Jonathan Nolan, Geneva [Robertson-Dworet] and Graham [Wagner].
The three of us got on the phone about eight months before we started shooting, and they just told me about this story that they were making and this role that they wanted me for, and we just really started breaking down exactly what the story was about and how they wanted to approach it.
Read more on deadline.com
