Bye Fall out returns to the dark wasteland in the second season, Walton Goggins is aware of the real-life parallels of the series based on video games.
After spending “a lot more time” in Cooper Howard's origin story before becoming the Ghoul, the three-time Emmy nominee explained to Deadline that the character is a “reflection of all of us,” just like the world in Prime Video show the balance on the brink of nuclear war.
“He has no control over the information that comes to him, and he realizes in real time that the world that he thought he knew about no longer exists, and there is some kind of chaotic trend, if you like, in the world that he lives in,” he says. “And he, like any reasonable person, tries to find meaning in something that doesn’t make sense.
“This show is not political in the sense that the show's writers don't overtly stand on a soapbox and preach… You're part of a story that fits very well with what's going on in the world around you, and it's more about timing than anything else, and that's really kind of where we're at. Fall out. Luckily for us, we do it absurdly, we do it with satire, and then we do it with real consequences,” Goggins adds.
While the Ghoul goes to New Vegas with Lucy McLean (Ella Purnell) in the future to find his wife and child, Cooper's past shows how he learned about the nuclear conspiracy that led to the fall of civilization and led to the current dystopia.
Ella Purnell and Walton Goggins in “Fallout”
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Quoting my co-star Aaron Moten with a line that “resonated very deeply with me,” Goggins said, “Everyone on this show wants to change the world. They just do it in different ways.”
“It really feels like pole position on where the show is and what it's trying to say and what the world Fall out“The game says,” he explained, “you have all these warring factions, but they're not that different from the world we live in today. People just have a different idea of what the solution is, right? Everything is individual for us.”
Goggins adds: “The Ghoul is really the only one here. He just wants to be with his family. But all the other tribes, if you will, are just trying [rebuild society] in its own way, and I think that's what's happening in the world. On the other side of the disaster, different political parties are formed, different associations are created, and you just try to remake it the way you want it to work.”
The premiere of new episodes of the second season of the series will take place on December 17 on Prime Video. Fall out available for streaming on Wednesdays.
