00:00I read this article where Jim Carrey talked about his experience on the Grinch and getting these
00:06like torture kind of experts to come in and coach him through that experience and
00:11I wish I had read that article before we did Fallout. Hello I'm Walton Goggins and this is
00:19how I was transformed into the ghoul. Look I'm an actor these are prosthetics let's be real right
00:25I mean it's not torture it took about two hours and 15 minutes. The very first requirement was to
00:36put on a bald cap. I like my hair so that was a bit shocking the first time I did it. This was
00:42the easiest time during the process. I would take my shirt off apparently and then we would have to
00:48get a bigger shirt on. We needed that room in the neck so that the flap would go over the t-shirt
00:53that we wore underneath it. The very first time that we did this when I put clothes on I couldn't
00:58feel the shoulders of the shirt that I was wearing and it freaked me out so I asked them to put this
01:03t-shirt over and cut this piece just so that it was below the the neckline and I could feel the shirt
01:09on my shoulders. The entire process consisted of nine different pieces of prosthetics that needed to be
01:19applied in a certain order. The first piece is this beautiful piece that goes to the you can see
01:25almost to here it drapes down the neck and onto the shoulders. Vincent Van Dyke the person who built it
01:33he's such an extraordinary artist. It's almost translucent it was extraordinary to understand that
01:38you could make something that thin that would hold up with the elements in the hat and the clothes.
01:43Something that was thick thicker than what we came up with would have been very very difficult to convey
01:49really other than some wild gestures what was going on inside the head of the ghoul. I don't want to
01:55think about that whenever we're we're working. First couple of days I was deeply insecure of being
02:01expressionless. After every take I would look at Jonah and I would say is any of this working
02:07and he kept saying you're fine. I see it all. I see everything buddy. Just do your thing.
02:17What did you say your name was? Lucy McClain.
02:24McClain? The idea was to build it from the ground up. He took it up to the neckline this front piece
02:32and all of those brushes are just applying glue while I eat an egg burrito. I was so fascinated
02:39by the process. Not just the glue that applies it from underneath but all of the the powder that
02:45needed to constantly be applied on the outside so that it wouldn't start sticking or folding in on
02:51itself. We've gotten the top of the head we've gotten the back of the head and we've gotten up to
02:54the neck and so now there was a separate piece for the for the chin. This is when you've got to get
03:09really calm because the piece goes up and over the bottom of your lip so the lip is loosely pried open
03:16the whole day and it feels like you're in a dentist chair and as the bottom piece holds your mouth open
03:23at the bottom the top piece holds your mouth open at the top and there's a built-in little cleft that
03:28they did to match the the little indentation that we all have but that I have a pronounced one. I am
03:34someone that can can can sit still for long periods of time yes but I am a mover. We needed to architect
03:42this in a way that allowed for me to take breaks. I didn't need very long but I did need to just go
03:49outside and collect my thoughts and just walk around for about about five ten minutes.
03:56You're a president now.
03:58Don't say why not.
04:00Well then you might want to hire a publicist.
04:03Oh this is the first time hearing about this outfit.
04:06Here's where it starts getting really interesting. This is the piece that overlaps the top of the head
04:11and then comes down to the nose and then he starts around the eyes. I'm so afraid of anyone
04:19touching any part of of my eyes. So this was a bit tricky and it was tricky for for um Jake
04:26because he's constantly moving around as you'll see he doesn't stop moving for two and a half hours.
04:31Oh I got a little stretch in there. I always keep it loose and this was one of the most important pieces
04:36of the entire prosthetic is the one that transitions over the top of the head over the eyebrows and then
04:43down through the top of your your eyelids and you'll see what he does at the end you see all these ridges
04:50that are along all of these pieces and right now he's applying this material that allows him to cut
04:55the the pieces without using a knife it just dissolves. These things don't go on seamlessly right
05:01there is a scene and and and every single piece and where they meet they overlap but he then has
05:07to go at the end of this experience and blend it all and the first time I went to use my phone
05:13as I always do with face id it was as if the phone was gonna blow up it was like this is definitely not
05:20you I don't know who this is but there's no way I'm letting this dude into your information so thank you
05:27Apple it works
05:39come on let's go find the rest of them I'm having a panic attack watching this video these are the
05:45biggest most important pieces of the entire process both sides of the face once he has it up this is so
05:51cool the whole thing is so cool he has to get it exactly right on the top of the head and in order for
05:57it to just drape down once he once he gets that in place the rest of it is pretty easy for him
06:02because it doesn't move the left and the right side overlap the top they overlap the bottom and they
06:09overlap the two pieces that have already been applied to the upper lip and the lower lip I have I didn't
06:15develop any tools to to cope with it to be quite honest with you I'm claustrophobic by nature and
06:21um became a scuba diver in order to kind of deal with that and that teaches you a lot about patience
06:27and meditation you have no choice as you'll see right here uh when the piece is being applied and
06:33your mouth is open you got to keep it open because he has to glue the parts around the mouth to match
06:40these two pieces above and below the mouth so if there is a coping mechanism it's just to know that that
06:46this is the reality that you're experiencing right now and to lean into it we would get to this point
06:52where we are right now when these pieces were all on before he began blending everything together and
06:58he gave me a big break which is about 15 or 20 minutes just to exhale and um and to begin thinking
07:06about what we were going to shoot that day there's always some new little facts right there brand new
07:21team of believers with their own dumb ass ideas about how they're going to save the world we've only got
07:26about maybe 20 minutes left at this point and he brings out the airbrush everything gets very very calm
07:33and your eyes are closed you can't breathe because it's a lot of spraying kind of going around to
07:38blend the entire piece it's interesting because when when he's spraying all of this it's it's it's it's
07:46actually comforting maybe like a horse going back to the barn i knew that my time in the chair was almost
07:52over i'm going to be working in about 45 minutes from now and it's game time and he applies white dots
07:58um to the nose so that the special effects people eight months from now can track the nose wherever
08:06it is so now i'm done and double thumbs up because hey i'm the vault boy the thing that no one has asked
08:14me about is removing the makeup for the last scene of the day jonah would shoot me out first because by
08:21this point in the day at the end of the day the the piece was having a hard time sticking because it was
08:26so hot in there so i would take my hands very carefully and start ripping off
08:35pieces that were hanging the first time i did it jake garber ran over and he said stop and i said i
08:40got to get it off man i have to get it off he said stop i have to do it with you because you can't
08:46pull it from your eyes if you pull it from your eyes and all the skin comes off we won't be able to
08:52apply it for a week because the skin is so thin around your eyes that was a big lesson the pieces
08:59that i wasn't able to rip off by the end of the day the process is holding up the piece and jake would
09:05do half of my face and then i would do the other half and i would just hold the piece up and and
09:10underneath with a brush just apply this uh thing that dissolved the the glue that was holding it
09:16together a wrap party for this all right we go for a couple of hours we shake a few hands it's at our
09:24house the thing that i was most surprised about was the first day that i played cooper howard and i
09:31was only in the chair for five minutes but when i walked out all of a sudden i felt like i didn't
09:37have my superhero costume on and i felt very vulnerable to be quite honest with you because you
09:44got used to this barrier between yourself and the world and it was very easy to be in the head
09:49of the ghoul and once that came off i found it difficult initially to just be a civilian
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