Walton Goggins Says 'Fallout' Role Is "Reflection Of All Of Us"

While Fallout returns to a dystopian wasteland for Season 2, Walton Goggins is aware of the video game-based series’ real-world parallels.

After he “spent a lot more time” in Cooper Howard’s origin story before becoming The Ghoul, the 3x Emmy nominee explained to Deadline that the character is “a reflection of all of us” as the world in the Prime Video show teeters on the edge of nuclear war.

“He has no control over the information that is coming to him, and he’s understanding in real time the world that he thought he knew no longer exists, and there is a chaotic kind of bent, if you will, to the world that he’s living in,” he says. “And he’s just like any reasonable person trying to make sense out of something that can’t make sense.

“This show isn’t political in the sense that