“No, I haven’t sat down to play the games,” said Walton Goggins, who plays pre-war movie star Cooper Howard and his post-war counterpart The Ghoul. “And I won’t. I won’t. I won’t play the games. I’m not interested.”
The reason is actually pretty simple: Goggins doesn’t want to think of the world or the characters of Fallout as elements of a game.
“All of a sudden, I’m looking at this world from a very different perspective, and as something on a screen in which I am an avatar in. I don’t believe that I’m an avatar. I believe The Ghoul exists in the world. I believe that Cooper Howard exists in the world.” he said.
“The best way that I can serve this world and serve the fans of this game, I think, is to go to work every single day and believe the circumstances that I’m presented with,” Goggins said.
I see what he’s saying, but none of this is that serious. Just do your job and act, dude. I don’t care if you play Fallout, play Hello Kitty Island Adventure, or play Pogs. Make the show good.
That’s likely the PR answer. For all we know, he doesn’t give a shit about the source material and he’s just doing a job he’s being paid to do. And there’s nothing wrong with that. As long as he plays the character as it was written and he does it well, I don’t see any issue.
Hello Kitty Island Adventure is low key amazing. I hope he plays it.
The show is good so there’s that.