Ghouls gone wild
FALLOUT’S WALTON GOGGINS ON PLAYING AN ANARCHIC, NOSELESS ANTIHERO
WORDS BETH WEBB
PRIME VIDEO’S NEW post-apocalyptic sci-fi series Fallout, adapted from the seminal video-game franchise, sees among its various species a population of former humans, warped by radiation from a devastating nuclear war. They are known as ‘ghouls’, and Walton Goggins plays ‘The Ghoul’: a gnarly, noseless, wisecracking cowboy who has managed to remain highly functional and more human-like in nature while others of his kind have become feral. “I’ve been given the opportunity to play morally ambiguous characters for a long time,” the actor, who’s left his murky mark on shows like Justified and The Shield, tells Empire cheerfully. “I can be funny to some people and maybe engender some pathos for horrible people. That’s what I like to think. Or maybe it’s because Sam Rockwell was unavailable.”