The White Lotus star reflects on a huge year, and the success of his distopian sci-fi, at the UK Pemiere of season 2. Report by Nelsonj. Like us on Facebook at http://www.facebook.com/itn and follow us on Twitter at http://twitter.com/itn
00:00Mr. Goggins, great to see you. Great to see you.
00:03And might I say, congratulations from one of the all-time years.
00:08I mean, you've been everywhere, every role.
00:11People have been lording you with praise.
00:14How does it feel? How does it feel to be in your shoes this year, man?
00:17I'm just playing it as it lays and just so grateful for every opportunity that's come my way.
00:24You've been doing this game for a long time.
00:26You've low-key stolen scenes across so many great movies and great shows over the years.
00:31But is there a feeling almost of chickens coming home to roost?
00:35Every now and again, in an actor's life, it feels like the light shines on them.
00:39And everyone goes, look how good this person is.
00:42And it kind of feels like that light has been on you.
00:44I don't know if you have a different sense of it.
00:47Gratitude, really.
00:48I mean, I've had a lot of moments over the course of my life.
00:52As a lot of friends of mine that are wonderful actors, and then they have a moment.
01:00But they've been having moments their entire career.
01:03Sometimes it's a little bit brighter than others.
01:07And I'm just grateful for whatever it is that I'm going through, knowing that everything will ebb that's flowing.
01:13And I've been happy all along the way.
01:17So I'm just making the most of the opportunities that are in front of me.
01:20And showing up with everything I have to offer.
01:24Well, congrats, man. It's been great to see you.
01:25Thanks, man. I really appreciate you saying that.
01:27No worries, man.
01:28A quick word on the thing in front of you right now.
01:30It's season two of Fallout.
01:32You must have been...
01:33You never really know if the secret sauce is in a show.
01:36Say that again?
01:37You never really know when you're making a show if it has that secret sauce where it's going to capture imagination of the core audience and everyone else.
01:43Yeah.
01:44People love this. I hadn't seen it when I was on the carpet with you guys last year.
01:47I watched that entire series. I thought it was brilliant.
01:50And I'm really looking forward to seeing more of your character because it feels like this is duality.
01:55How much fun has it been to play these two guys in different parts of the life?
01:58Here's what I will say. Having been in this situation luckily a number of times over the course of my career,
02:04if you're able to build a critical mass in season one of chapter one of a story, right?
02:11Not season one of a television show. I don't look at it that way.
02:15But if you're able to build a critical mass, then you have one of two opportunities in my mind.
02:19You can play it safe and rest on the laurels of what kind of came before.
02:25Or you can just go for broke and put it all out there.
02:29And everybody in front of and behind that camera went for broke.
02:33And we gave it everything that we had.
02:35And whether you like it or whether you don't like it, you can bet that we showed up every day and gave it the best we had.
02:41And I'm really proud of it.
02:43And I hope people like it as watching it as much as we did making it.
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