“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.
He’d be perfect for the writer’s room
EDIT: Jokes aside, I respect his decision as an actor, but I also don’t have faith in the direction they’re giving him. Fans want him to play the games because they don’t have faith, either, and they’d like someone on set pushing for something closer in tone to the West Coast games than the East Coast games. He’s easily the best part of the show.