Walton Goggins played The Ghoul/Cooper Howard in ‘Fallout,’ starring alongside Ella Purnell as Vault Dweller Lucy MacLean, Aaron Moten as Maximus, Kyle MacLachlan as Hank MacLean, and Moisés Arias as Norm MacLean.
The actor reflected on finding out about his role in the Prime Video series during a recent Q&A panel with Variety. “Once they said it was for ‘Fallout,’ I went on Wikipedia or whatever,” he recalled. “I looked up ‘Fallout,’ and in the first description, the first paragraph that I read was this really handsome Vault Dweller, this guy, I forget what his name was, and I’m sitting there thinking, ‘Oh my God! Somebody wants me to play the hero.’”
The idea of playing a Vault Dweller thrilled Goggins, who said, “Right out of the gate, this good-looking debonair guy that comes out of a vault. That was like his description of maybe the first season or something, I don’t know, and then, I stopped reading it because I didn’t wanna bring too much to the table.”
“So, I was thinking that’s where they were gonna go, and they said, ‘No, no, no, you’re gonna play a 200-year-old bounty hunter, who’s been walking the post-apocalyptic wasteland for 200 years, and he doesn’t have a nose.’ And I said, ‘Well, maybe I should read those scripts.’”
The first season of ‘Fallout’ received great positive feedback after its release on Prime Video in April. The streamer soon renewed the show for a Season 2 to explore Lucy’s life in the wasteland of what used to be Los Angeles after leaving her Vault in 2296.
Production for the new episodes began in November. Most of the main cast returned while Macaulay Culkin joined the series as a new recurring character described as a ‘crazy-genius-type,’ according to Deadline and Variety.
A release date for the second season has not been announced yet.
