How Walter Goggins Celebrated His Southern Roots

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From his Alabama roots to an Academy Award-winning film, Walter Goggins never left his southern roots behind. In this video, learn how this "Southern sweetheart" embraced his Alabama roots and Georgia upbringing, even going on to make his own distillery.

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00:00I bet y'all don't know this, and I just learned it, but America's sweetheart is from none other

00:03than Birmingham, Alabama. Not only is Uncle Baby Billy or Rick or the ghoul from the great state

00:09of Alabama, he was raised in Georgia, ultimate southern boy, in a little town called Lithia

00:14Springs, Georgia, which is about 20 minutes outside of Atlanta. I just found out you're

00:17from Alabama. What's next? Turns out he grew up in an 1850s farmhouse. He actually started working

00:21at age 12. Also attended Georgia Southern University. Go Eagles! Don't tell Evie. And

00:26rather than trying to escape his southerness as he entered his career, he actually embraced it.

00:29He won an Academy Award for a 2001 short film that he made called The Accountant, about

00:34an accountant that comes and helps a family farm. And this was actually shot in Covington,

00:39Georgia. You smell that? I smell southern inspiration. Another super southern thing about him, not

00:43even going to guess this one, he makes his own whiskey. Yes, he has his own whiskey distillerate.

00:48Cute name. That's the most southern thing I've ever heard in my life. You're making your own

00:50whiskey shit? If you're just learning about this admittedly fine southern specimen, one, where

00:54have you been? Two, welcome, come come, you've come to the right lane. To everyone else out there

00:57who's been equally obsessed with, enamored, can't stop singing, Mama told me not to, I did it anyway.

01:02Or non-stop liking Walton Coggins Instagram because what's he gonna do next? All I know

01:07is it must come out tomorrow so I can start binging it ASAP.

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