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Why Walton Goggins Didn’t Play the Game ‘Fallout’ Before Starring on the Series · Direct From Hollywood with Ryan Seacrest

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  Speaker 1: Direct from Hollywood with Ryan Seacrest. Walton Goggins plays the
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  Speaker 1: Google in the new hip show Fallout, which is a
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  Speaker 1: character type anybody who's played the games the series is
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  Speaker 1: based on this is quite familiar with, but not Walton himself.
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  Speaker 1: In fact, when he signed onto this show, he was
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  Speaker 1: only familiar with the ip because his son is a
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  Speaker 1: big gamer, and even he didn't play them. Despite having
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  Speaker 1: no base of knowledge, Walton actually made a conscious decision
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  Speaker 1: to not play any of the games before they began shooting.
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  Speaker 1: He tells Cinema Blend. I didn't want that responsibility. I
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  Speaker 1: knew there were enough people around that were protecting the
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  Speaker 1: mythology of this legacy property that I didn't need to.
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  Speaker 1: I felt unencumbered by the weight of that. It just
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  Speaker 1: left me free to judge these scripts and my character's
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  Speaker 1: behavior based on this person in my imagination. Actors often
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  Speaker 1: play real people and a lot of times they don't
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  Speaker 1: want to meet them because they've devised a version of
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  Speaker 1: them that works for them, and this was no different.
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  Speaker 1: Walton Goggins there on deciding not to play the game
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  Speaker 1: Fallout before starting In the show adaptation, which is streaming,
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  Speaker 1: I'm Prime, that's direct from Hollywood,