Prime Video’s Fallout has been a remarkable success for the streaming service, garnering 16 Emmy nominations and receiving rave reviews from critics and audiences alike. Walton Goggins earned an Emmy nomination for his performance as The Ghoul, and the actor is already looking ahead to his character’s journey in Season 2. The dramatic finale of Season 1 revealed that the Ghoul’s family could still be alive in the Wasteland, and the credits rolled after he set off with Lucy (Ella Purnell) to track down Hank McLean (Kyle MacLachlan) in New Vegas for answers.
Speaking with Collider following his Emmy nomination, Walton Goggins revealed what he’s most excited about getting into in the upcoming second season. Season 2 has officially been confirmed by Prime Video, and Goggins hopes the show will explore the dark side of the ominous Vault-Tec in forthcoming seasons. Unlike Lucy and the other vault-dwellers, The Ghoul survived 200 years of nuclear fallout thanks to mutations caused by the irradiated landscape. Heading into Season 2, as The Ghoul and Lucy travel together, Goggins wants the show to peel back the layers of their incredibly unique backgrounds and experiences. He explained:
“I’m not quite sure how that’s going to play out, but I can’t imagine that he wouldn’t be affected by the information that he has now. I’m really interested in the socio-economic/political pull-no-punches aspect of this story and exploring this communication between two people who see the world so very differently, based on economics, privilege, and circumstances, and having a lot of information versus having no information at all, between Ella [Purnell] and I, and how they inform each other going forward in this world.”
Walton Goggins Wants to Unmask Vault-Tec in Fallout Season 2
When the world (or at least an alternate version of it) was hit by a nuclear apocalypse in the year 2077, a select few were permitted safety in underground vaults. Built by the seemingly humanitarian Vault-Tec, each vault was secretly used by the company and its fundraising partners to conduct secret experiments. Across the globe, Vault-Tec conducted sick and twisted experiments, including studying the psychological effects of human sacrifice, performing genetic experiments on inhabitants, and building a vault where one woman lived with a hundred men (and another vault with the conditions reversed). The experiments were horrific, inhuman, and, in a lot of cases, bizarre.
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As well as revealing that Lucy’s home, Vault 33, was used to conduct a centuries-long experiment on workplace management, Prime Video’s Fallout series also dropped the bombshell (literally) when it revealed that Vault-Tec helped to incite the nuclear war between America and the Communist forces of China and Russia. The reveal didn’t just come as a shock to audiences, but also to Goggins’ pre-war version of The Ghoul, named Cooper Howard, as it was revealed that it was his wife who orchestrated the nuclear apocalypse. Goggins is desperate to dive deeper into the fallout (pun intended) of that reveal in Season 2, saying:
“I’m really curious in exploring what the reasons are behind this consortium of people who have come together to bring about the ending of the world, the prophet, what that really means, and what that way of thinking means for the rest of us. I’m not a conspiracy theorist, on any level, but if that is happening on some level and if there is an Illuminati, I don’t even know. I just think about great food in whatever city I’m in and a great cocktail at the end of the day. But it is fascinating to me to at least hypothesize or live in a fantasy version of that.”
It’s not all doom and gloom in the Fallout universe though. As excited as Walton Goggins is about exploring the show’s dark themes, he also expressed that he’s overwhelmingly “excited just to shoot some f*ckin’ guns, man.” Season 2 of Fallout is currently in development. Showrunners Graham Wagner and Geneva Robertson-Dworet have promised audiences that they’re working as fast as they can to minimize the wait between seasons. No official release date has been announced for Fallout Season 2.
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