"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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[–] Aceticon@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 3 hours ago* (last edited 3 hours ago)

A somewhat different version of that world and of characters similar to the one he's acting exists in the games.

When building a character for acting one bases oneself in the script to "fill-in the blanks" of "how would this person feel in these circumstances", based on things like the past of that person, the world around them and past events (sometimes actors using Method Action will even during rehearsal enact an important events of a character's past which are NOT on the script, just to try and get an impression of how that might have shaped that imaginary person).

So it still makes sense that now, after he built a character based on the script's version of that world and of people like that character in it, he would avoid different versions of that world and those people.

Mind you, he might just not be at all a gamer and this is just an excuse not to play the game. Then again he might genuinely want to avoid the negative side effects for his character building of being exposed to two different versions of the same world - it is a valid consideration for some actors. Only he knows if it's a genuine reason or just some bollocks he said to get fans of the games of his back.