In addition to reprising his role as The Ghoul in Fallout Season 2, last year marked Walton Goggins’ in-game debut as his character in Fallout 76’s Burning Springs expansion. When it came time to lend his voice to the game, Goggins looked to a member of his own family for inspiration.
During a discussion shared by Deadline, Goggins noted that voice work calls upon different acting muscles than he would have used on-camera. That’s why he looked to his son, Augustus Goggins, for a way to approach his performance.
“I don’t think about my facial expressions or my voice,” said Goggins. “I don’t really think about anything when I’m working in front of a camera … Whenever you’re in a booth, you have to, in some ways, do what you do organically with your body [to] your voice. I just chose to imagine the person playing the game, in the sense that, my son is a gamer. And I thought about speaking to him and what he would like to hear. I know how he cackles, I know how he feels whenever he’s communicating with someone or a voice in a game that plays. So, I just thought about him to be quite honest.”
Like his co-star, Aaron Moten, Goggins has no desire to play the Fallout games himself. But he is very happy to hear that Fallout 76 players are choosing to turn their characters into ghouls because of his character.
“I just think that is so cool,” related Goggins. “I love Easter eggs in stories. I love Easter eggs in our story. I love stories that come back around on themselves, and the idea of someone dressed up as the Ghoul playing Fallout 76 with me as the Ghoul–let’s just say my son is going to be the most popular kid in school.”
During Fallout Season 2, Goggins shared a single scene with a veteran actor who may have a much bigger role in Season 3. That may play into the larger faction war that was set up by the Season 2 finale.
Meanwhile, Fallout 76 is poised to give Bigfoot a larger part in a new Backwoods update that will coincide with Season 24 on March 3.
