Fallout star Walton Goggins says the Ghoul’s season 2 backstory “broke my heart”: “I can’t wait for people to see where it ultimately goes”

Walton Goggins as Cooper Howard in Fallout season 2
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Fallout season 2 star Walton Goggins says we get to see a whole new side to the Ghoul this time around – and that we’re in for quite the emotional journey.

“We get to spend more time with Cooper this season, and this is a man who has had the rug pulled out from underneath him,” Goggins tells GamesRadar. “He realizes just how little control he has over anything in his life, and it broke my heart. Some of these things we were filming… God, in episode five, there was this thing that he goes through where he’s so despondent by his lack of control, and it coincided with how I felt in my own life. It was a very personal journey for me.”

We were first introduced to the Ghoul in Fallout season 1 as a ruthless, cutthroat bounty hunter who takes no prisoners and only cares for himself. However, a series of flashbacks reveals that, prior to the nuclear disaster that ended the world as we know it, the Ghoul was once a beloved Hollywood actor named Cooper Howard who had a wife named Barb (Frances Turner), and a daughter named Janey (Teagan Meredith). Barb’s status as a higher-up executive at Vault-Tec, and her involvement with the impending nuclear disaster, caused them to separate – and the Ghoul has wandered the Wasteland post-war looking for them both.

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Lauren Milici is a Senior Entertainment Writer for GamesRadar+ based in New York City. She previously reported on breaking news for The Independent’s Indy100 and created TV and film listicles for Ranker. Her work has been published in Fandom, Nerdist, Paste Magazine, Vulture, PopSugar, Fangoria, and more.

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