‘Fallout’s The Ghoul is quite different from what you might expect. It seems he could’ve looked very different from what we see now on TV.
Walton Goggins recently shared some behind-the-scenes secrets about The Ghoul with Collider. He revealed that the early designs were not at all like the final version. The first plan was to use contact lenses to change his eyes, but Nolan didn’t want to lose Goggins’ expressions under them:
“There were drawings and renderings of this guy that were, in my memory, very, very, very different. … At one point, we were gonna use contact lenses, and we did on the very first day, much to my dismay because those things freak me out. I put them in and stood up, and I couldn’t really see with them. I thought, ‘Oh, my God, there’s no way I can do this with these on. But okay, I’ll figure it out.’ And Jonah [Nolan] immediately said, ‘No, that makes you a different person. I have to see your eyes. It’s in your eyes. Everything is in your eyes.'”
Goggins explained that the creators also wanted The Ghoul to be ‘sexy’ in his own way:
“We took those out, and we worked on it. We did three tests. The first one, I’m gonna say, was 70% there. And then, it was like, ‘No, that’s a little too severe. No, that’s not severe enough, actually.’ We went back and forth with that. And then, we started inserting nicks in his ear and battle scars, and started a road map of where he’s been for the last 200 years. It was a real process, but I’m really happy with how it turned out. And we wanted him to be sexy, on whatever level, in a ghoulish way. Goggins Ghoul. I don’t know.”
The Ghoul Appears as a Main Character in the Show
‘Fallout’ tells the story of a young woman named Lucy who leaves her safe home in Vault 33 to find her dad in the dangerous outside world called the Wasteland. She meets many different people and creatures as she travels, including The Ghoul.
Ghouls are survivors of a big nuclear disaster that changed them and the world they live in in the ‘Fallout’ game franchise. The Ghoul, on the other hand, is a main character in the TV show.
The Ghoul is a mysterious bounty hunter. He was once a man named Cooper Howard before the world changed due to nuclear war. Now, over 200 years later, he looks and acts very differently.
You can watch the trailer for ‘Fallout’ below.
