Old School. Biblically Independent.
By Mike Redmond | TV | December 5, 2025
With Fallout Season 2 set to drop later this month, Walton Goggins is making the interview rounds where he’s settling into delightful curmudgeon vibes on par with Harrison Ford. The Han Solo actor has been on a decades-long streak of famously hating any and all questions about the Force, Star Wars, or even Indiana Jones. He makes the movies, he cashes the checks, and you will never once get him to care about the lore. Won’t happen.
Goggins tapped into a similar mood while being interviewed by PC Gamer, who asked if he’s ever played any of the Fallout video games. Well, listen here, nerd. Baby Billy is gonna stop you right there.
“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.”
OK, dang. Do not ask Walton Goggins about vidya games. However, unlike Ford, Goggins tempered his response with some highfalutin actor talk.
“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,” Goggins said. “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.”
But before anyone accuses Goggins of having a “process,” he got very candid with Polygon about wearing the iconic Power Armor in Season 2. He did not love it.
It was the most claustrophobic thing I’ve ever done in my life. The people that put that rig on - Aaron Moten, Johnny Pemberton, and the stunt guys that wear that - I thought they had it easy. I thought I had it hard by wearing these prosthetics. I really thought that, until I put that power armor on. I’m not lying to you when I say I had it on for about 30 minutes and then I had a panic attack. I had to get it off. It’s like, ‘I got to get out of this, please. I got to move my arms, please.’ It’s really a thing.
In Goggins’ defense, both Aaron Moten and Kyle MacLachlan said the armor weighs a ton. The latter even went so far as to say that the suit actually got heavier for Season 2. More importantly, there’s just something special about Walton Goggins getting to wear a Fallout staple and immediately saying, “Get this damn thing off of me.” Slap that straight in my veins.
