"No, I haven't sat down to play the games," said Walton Goggins, who plays pre-war movie star Cooper Howard and his post-war counterpart The Ghoul. "And I won't. I won't. I won't play the games. I'm not interested."

The reason is actually pretty simple: Goggins doesn't want to think of the world or the characters of Fallout as elements of a game.

"All of a sudden, I'm looking at this world from a very different perspective, and as something on a screen in which I am an avatar in. I don't believe that I'm an avatar. I believe The Ghoul exists in the world. I believe that Cooper Howard exists in the world." he said.

"The best way that I can serve this world and serve the fans of this game, I think, is to go to work every single day and believe the circumstances that I'm presented with," Goggins said.

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[–] tgirlschierke@lemmy.blahaj.zone 52 points 6 days ago (2 children)

Makes sense to me. The Ghoul is an original character, and Goggins doesn't need to know a lot about the setting or source material.

[–] CrabAndBroom@lemmy.ml 8 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Yeah I mean, I assume he knows all the relevant details about the show from reading the scripts, and the show is probably designed so a viewer can get into it without knowing the games well, so there's really no need to know all the lore stuff from games that isn't in the show anyway.

Plus TBH the dude is a movie star, he's probably got movie star shit to do rather than putting a few hundred hours into a bunch of RPGs lol.

[–] MBech@feddit.dk 9 points 5 days ago (1 children)

I think people have gotten some unrealistic expectations from Henry Cavill. For all I know, Walton Goggins has absolutely nothing to do with the writing, so why would he care much about the source material? I can respect him for just wanting to do his job, listening to how his boss wants him to do it.

It's the director and the writers people should expect to care about the source material, not the actors.

[–] captain_aggravated@sh.itjust.works 3 points 5 days ago

Actors are creative people too. Several of Harrison Ford's most iconic moments were ad libs. Famously, in Raiders of the Lost Ark he was supposed to have a whip vs sword fight during the Marian is kidnapped sequence. But he wasn't feeling well, so he pulled his pistol and shot the swordsman instead, and then they rebuilt the scene around that. Also, Han Solo's "I love you!" "I know." moment was Ford.

"The writer writes, the director directs, the actor acts" is how you get the sludge Hollywood makes today.

[–] Ilandar@lemmy.today 2 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Was Cooper Howard a character in the games or was the entire role written for this show?

[–] Schmuppes@lemmy.today 16 points 6 days ago

If it was a character from one of the games, it would be so minor that I missed it. I think that character was created for the TV series.