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'I haven't sat down to play the games, and I won't': Fallout's Walton Goggins says he 'not interested' in playing the RPGs his show is based on (www.pcgamer.com)

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"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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[-] Jumbie@lemmy.zip 7 points 2 days ago

I suspect the actor can read and relied on that.

[-] artyom@piefed.social 3 points 2 days ago

...read what?

[-] FartMaster69@lemmy.dbzer0.com 11 points 2 days ago

The script of the show, it usually has all of their lines in it.

[-] artyom@piefed.social 1 points 2 days ago

The script doesn't contain nearly enough information to get an accurate view of who the character is that they're portraying or what the fictional universe is like. That's why a good actor will research the lore.