Walton Goggins—who plays the sardonic Ghoul (also known as Cooper Howard) in Amazon's Fallout adaptation—has never expressed an interest in the video game series the show is based on. In a recent interview with PC Gamer, he reiterated his lack of interest, but also provided a professional reason for why he's avoiding the game series.
"No, I haven't sat down to play the games," Goggins said. "And I won't, I won't. I won't play the games, I'm not interested."
Goggins doesn't want any experience playing the games to affect his acting performance; he doesn't want to reconceptualise his understanding of the characters and world of Fallout, in case it inadvertently waters down his performance.
"All of a sudden, I'm looking at this world from a very different perspective, and as something on 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 continued.
"The best way I can serve this world and serve fans of the game, I think, is to go to work every single day and believe the circumstances that I'm presented with," Goggins asserted....
