“No, I haven’t sat down to play the games,” said Walton Goggins, who plays pre-war movie star Cooper Howard and his post-war counterpart The Ghoul. “And I won’t. I won’t. I won’t play the games. I’m not interested.”
The reason is actually pretty simple: Goggins doesn’t want to think of the world or the characters of Fallout as elements of a game.
“All of a sudden, I’m looking at this world from a very different perspective, and as something on a screen in which I am an avatar in. I don’t believe that I’m an avatar. I believe The Ghoul exists in the world. I believe that Cooper Howard exists in the world.” he said.
“The best way that I can serve this world and serve the fans of this game, I think, is to go to work every single day and believe the circumstances that I’m presented with,” Goggins said.
Makes perfect sense from the perspective of an actor.
They want their performance to come naturally and with the direction of the writers/directors.
Playing the games can make an actor subconsciously act how they think would fit the games rather than how would fit their specific character.
I was going to make this it’s own comment, but it fits well as a reply here.
I don’t agree with this. I don’t think he needs to play them, but the argument doesn’t make sense. Would he say the same if it were a movie? I’m willing to bet not. He just doesn’t want to play the games, and that’s fine. The bullshit excuse of “not wanting to believe the world” is stupid. If you’re making a movie set in a larger cinematic universe you don’t get to act noble about refusing to engage in the rest of the media. It being a video game doesn’t change anything.
Understandable, but he might never know the glory that is fisto, which makes me sad.
I’m sure, if he goes to them, convention goers are more than happy to let him know.