Walton Goggins Explains What Hooked Him to Fallout's Story

For o85ver 25 years, Fallout fans have been gradually desensitized to the franchise’s grim humor and dystopian reality. Actor Walton Goggins explains how the TV series’ absurd depiction of the post-apocalypse exposes truths about human society.

Walton Goggins’ turn as The Ghoul in Prime Video’s Fallout is hardly his first rodeo in Western movies. The actor co-starred in two Quentin Tarantino films, both pegging him as a hateful antagonist. He is arguably just as despicable in Fallout, but his character is depicted as an anti-hero with a tragic redemption story. Fallout’s parody of a post-nuclear apocalypse is also great entertainment for mainstream audiences, and Goggins affirms this is probably the best approach to the topic. In an interview with IndieWire, the actor explains how real-life events can trigger the show’s main premise, which explores how a cataclysm can destroy the very fabric of civilized society.

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“Shows about the world ending have been made for a hundred years,” Goggins asserted. “Now, given how scary things are, [we can] explore this bleak reality with humor and talk about things going on in the world — the 1 percent versus everybody else.” The actor is referring to Fallout’s dichotomized, dystopian society of elites thriving in bunkers while the rest eke out what’s left of the apocalypse. “The people that were privileged enough to have a space in the vault, that is an example of how human beings should live,” he said. “Well, that’s just a morality of convenience, isn’t it? It’s because they have resources. Everybody else on the surface was left to die, and [what happens up there] is probably what would happen if, God forbid, this were to ever become a reality.”

Skipping Precursors To Fallout’s Catastrophe

Fallout’s games and TV adaptation depict different causes for the Great War and the nuclear holocaust, but Goggins is thankful those events were never depicted in the series (not yet in Season 1, at least). “We didn’t show or really spend a lot of time on the destruction of the world, and I’m so grateful,” He asserted. “I don’t want to see Manhattan get torn apart again. I don’t want to see Los Angeles get torn apart again, or the Eiffel Tower get destroyed. We get right to it.” Fans of the Fallout franchise might not necessarily agree, but The Walking Dead series does prove how the aftermath makes for a more gripping story than the actual catastrophe.

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Goggins says Fallout’s dark parody cleanses the aftertaste of bitter topics. “Why are we so fractious as a species?” he said. “Why can’t we get over some of [our trivial differences] to solve these bigger f***ing problems? Fallout deals with a lot of that, talks about a lot of that, but without being on a soapbox.” With so much more of Fallout’s lore to cover, the show’s promising run on Prime Video might just push the story further than the pilot episodes, hopefully with subsequent seasons greenlit.

Fallout is streaming on Prime Video.

Source: IndieWire

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Fallout

In a future, post-apocalyptic Los Angeles brought about by nuclear decimation, citizens must live in underground bunkers to protect themselves from radiation, mutants and bandits.

Release DateApril 10, 2024Creator(s)Geneva Robertson-DworetCastAaron Moten, Xelia Mendes-Jones, Kyle MacLachlan, Walton Goggins, Johnny Pemberton, Moises Arias, Ella PurnellMain GenreSci-FiGenresDrama, Sci-Fi, Action, AdventureSeasons1Production CompanyAmazon Studios, Kilter Films, Bethesda Game StudiosWritersGeneva Robertson-DworetNumber of Episodes8DirectorsJonathan Nolan