Walton Goggins Breaks Down His ‘Fallout’ Transformation
THE LONG-AWAITED screen adaptation of the hugely popular video game series Fallout is very nearly here, and the latest trailer offers fans their first real look at the Prime Video show's depiction of Los Angeles two centuries after a nuclear war. And it looks like one of the main obstacles Ella Purnell's young vault dweller will be facing is a mutated, noseless Walter Goggins.
The Righteous Gemstones star is unrecognizable as the gunslinging "ghoul" Cooper Howard, whose Ryan-Reynolds-in-Deadpool-esque makeup and prosthetics took five hours to apply.
"I have so much gratitude for my nose," Goggins told Seth Meyers this week. "You wake up in the morning, you go, oh, I love you, you're so beautiful."
Goggins was originally so excited to work with director Jonathan Nolan on the video game adaptation that he agreed to the project before learning anything about the part he'd be playing, but that learning more about The Ghoul—and the prospect of five hours in the makeup chair—then gave him pause.
"We were like two minutes into the Zoom call I was having with Jonathan Nolan, and I said, I'm in. He said, don't you want to read a script? I said, sure, whatever. He said, well do you want to know who you're playing, what the character is? I said yeah, okay, go ahead, tell me. And he said, he's 200 years old, he's a bounty hunter that has been roaming a post-apocalyptic wasteland, and he has no nose. And I said, you know what? Could you send those scripts?"
Goggins—who also appears in un-mutated form via flashback in the series—went on to explain that he had some input into the Ghoul's character design, and he had a very specific aesthetic in mind when it came to inspiration.
"We wanted him to be attractive, you know, we wanted the audience to kind of lean into his look and not be kind of repulsed by it," he said. "And so I said, could you do Kris Kristofferson if he were 250 years old and had been walking the wasteland, and had been drinking all night?"
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