In season two of Prime Video’s Fallout, the Ghoul (Walton Goggins) is on the hunt for answers and whatever trace of his family there might be left, which has him combating numerous threats and opting to partner up with someone whose outlook on the world couldn’t be any further from his own: former Vault dweller Lucy (Ella Purnell).
Awards Buzz spoke with Goggins about how he sees the Ghoul’s redemption arc in season two and the fact that he may not be as much of a villain anymore:
“God, you know, I don’t feel like I’ve ever played a villain in my in my life. I feel like I’ve played a person who has done good things and a person who’s done really bad things. What I so relished about the opportunity to tell this story and the way that we told it this in the second chapter of it was to understand through the experience of Cooper Howard why the Ghoul has become who he is. It was by virtue of the writing and the opportunity to really explore Cooper Howard that I understood the Ghoul more than I had previously. I think that these are two people that started this far apart but over the course of these eight episodes, or eight stories, they started to merge. They’re over here but they will eventually get to that point, the intersection where they meet. It was such a textured, a nuanced, cinematic way in which these directors and these writers wrote the true beginning of these people speaking to each other over time. It had been alluded to in the first season of this story, but now we’re really on a path. I just find that infinitely challenging and enriching as an as an artist, to be doing that, looking for those answers.”
Watch the video above to hear him reflect on formative roles like The Shield and to share how he approaches any part he plays as he navigates a range of projects and parts.
The first two seasons of Fallout are streaming on Prime Video.
