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00:00I'm Walton Goggins, and this is The Wired Complete Interview.
00:11Okay, here it is. True story. Never told it on camera before.
00:18Here we go. Dale Gribble 2024 asks,
00:23Why did they make the ghoul so sexy?
00:25Why, Dale? Are you single? Just kidding. I'm married.
00:28So why did they make the ghoul so sexy?
00:30Well, you know, it is actually a great question.
00:33We had these conversations kind of right out of the gate,
00:36and the thing that we didn't want to happen
00:39was for people to be turned off by his physical appearance, right?
00:42We wanted people to lean into the experience and to really watch his face.
00:48Dumb ideas about how they're going to save the world.
00:52And for his face to be a roadmap, if you will, of pain,
00:57and his time traversing the wasteland for 200 years.
01:02We wanted it to be its own character in another part of the story.
01:06And by virtue of that, I think maybe, you know, we just leaned into sexy.
01:11Or maybe that's just the guy under the mask.
01:14Okay, swiping.
01:15Coley12801.
01:18Anyone know what it's like on a Tarantino film set?
01:21I do.
01:23Yeah, as a matter of fact, I do.
01:25It is...
01:26Wow.
01:27It is one of the most extraordinary experiences I've ever had in my life.
01:33I'm sitting here telling you this because I'm the one being interviewed.
01:36But any person who's ever been on a Tarantino set would sit here and tell you the same thing.
01:41There is a love for this industry, for this medium of storytelling by Quentin that is so effusive
01:52that every single day you show up and you go to work and you realize just how lucky you are
01:57to be telling a story at all.
02:00And everyone on that set, both in front of and behind the camera, have that same feeling.
02:07There's no hierarchy on a Tarantino set, meaning that we're all the same.
02:12There's a lot of sets, but nothing quite like a Tarantino set.
02:16And everybody is there showing up every day, putting everything that they have into it,
02:21knowing how special it is that storytelling is a privilege.
02:27It's not a right.
02:28Next one.
02:30Walton Goggins, high school senior, 1989.
02:33What would this guy want?
02:35What does this guy need to hear?
02:37So this guy, 1989, Lithia Springs Comprehensive High School, with all of my buddies, voted
02:43runner-up for most friendliest, mind you.
02:45Didn't win.
02:46Bullshit.
02:47Still angry about that.
02:49Like, actually really pissed off about it, Tracy Wallace.
02:52But that being said, this guy wanted to see the world.
02:57He wanted to know how the world thought.
03:00He wanted to have a passport filled with stamps from all over.
03:05That's what he wanted more than anything in the world.
03:08Not running away from his hometown, mind you, but running towards a bigger life.
03:13And he got that.
03:15So what does this guy need to hear?
03:18This is the important one.
03:19This guy needed to hear that you were worthy of dreaming bigger than your circumstances would allow.
03:29That's all he needed to hear.
03:31He just needed to be given permission to dream big.
03:36And he got that permission.
03:38You know, it happened for me a little bit later along in my process.
03:42And a lot of that involved me, you know, falling in love with myself, you know, meaning that I actually like me.
03:48And I think that's the journey for all of us to kind of get to that point.
03:52But I did give myself permission to dream big.
03:56And I'm all the better for it.
03:58And if that's one piece of advice I would give to anyone, that you are not defined by your circumstances.
04:05Okay, next question.
04:06From Movie Connoisseur.
04:09Oh, I'll be the judge of that.
04:10Is it normal for the emotions you felt within the scene to affect you for a while afterwards?
04:14Oh, wow.
04:16Okay, Movie Connoisseur.
04:18You know what?
04:19I give you your kudos.
04:20That's a great question.
04:22I think, yeah.
04:24You know, it does for a lot of people that I look up to.
04:27I've had lengthy conversations with people about, you know, the process of becoming someone in order to tell a story and then letting that go.
04:38Over the course of my career, I've had the good fortune of playing some morally complex people.
04:44And they have all had a big come down, if you will.
04:51There was a lot of, when I say trauma, around letting them go because you become so close to them that you don't want to let them go.
04:59And some of the things that they're going through affect you in ways that you don't anticipate.
05:04For everything that I've done, really, you know, including the White Lotus, which I just finished.
05:08Fallout, for sure that's happened.
05:10There was a season of Justified, the last season.
05:16And I was sitting with my wife in the kitchen in L.A.
05:20And I just started going through all the people that I love in this world, literally saying to her,
05:25You know what?
05:26I don't like that person.
05:27I don't trust that person.
05:29You know what?
05:29I don't want to hang out with him anymore.
05:31Yeah, I'm not friends with that person anymore.
05:34I don't trust them.
05:35And she said, Yes, you fucking do.
05:38What are you talking about?
05:39Man, we had dinner with him last night.
05:42You know, the reason why you're feeling this way is because Boyd Crowder can't trust anyone that's around him.
05:47And I realized that she was right.
05:51You know, I was just experiencing what Boyd was experiencing.
05:55And it was going to be a big day on Monday morning.
05:57And I don't like to let things go until long after, sometimes too long after a job ends.
06:04So great question.
06:05And the answer is, yeah.
06:07Next question is from Bub-1974.
06:12Is that when you were born, Bub?
06:14I was born in 1971.
06:16Describe Danny McBride's sense of humor in three words.
06:19Wow.
06:19Okay.
06:20I wish I would have looked at this question before we started.
06:25Intelligent.
06:25Brilliant and no filter.
06:31Filterless.
06:32Three words, right?
06:33Intelligent, brilliant, filterless.
06:38Next question.
06:40Love you, Danny McBride.
06:42From Paul G.
06:44How do you approach performances as an unlikable character?
06:47I don't look at them as an unlikable character, right?
06:50I just kind of keep them.
06:52I have empathy for them.
06:53I look at them as real human beings in the world.
06:57And I try not to think of them as a character.
06:59I try to, when I say become them, pretend, right?
07:03Going back to that first question.
07:05I just play pretend.
07:07And I feel like I am them.
07:09And I try to humanize them as much as I possibly can.
07:12Next question.
07:15By Brandon White.
07:17Watching Fallout, RN.
07:20What does RN mean?
07:22It means right now.
07:23Right now.
07:24What it could also mean like a nurse, couldn't it?
07:26I mean, RN is a nurse.
07:27But okay, sure.
07:28Maybe he means nurse and maybe you think it's right now.
07:30Watching Fallout right now.
07:32Oh, I think you're right.
07:33It's right now.
07:34How do actors manage to get human emotion through a full mask?
07:37Wow.
07:38Okay.
07:38That's a great, what a great question.
07:41I'm just going to answer for myself since I wear a full mask.
07:45We worked very, very hard with Vincent Van Dyke, who is the person who made these pieces,
07:53to make them as thin as we possibly could.
07:57So I wouldn't disappear behind all of this latex, right?
08:02And by making them thin and by cutting the piece up into like seven, I think, seven or eight or nine pieces,
08:12in order for Jake Garber, who is one of the best special effects makeup artists in the world.
08:17He's a good friend of mine and he applies it.
08:19But we did it that way so that there would be very little barrier between my skin and the piece itself
08:27so that I could emote, if you will.
08:29I don't even know how to do that.
08:30But people could see what's going on in my head.
08:34I was deeply insecure about it when we started.
08:37And so much so that I would ask Jonathan Nolan, who directed a lot of season one
08:43and certainly the first two episodes, if he's reading any of this.
08:47And he said, you're fine. I got it. I got it all.
08:50You know what I have? What do you have?
08:52He said, your eyes. And your eyes say everything.
08:56And so I've just leaned on my eyes.
09:00What am I thinking right now?
09:02You can't tell because you're looking in my eyes?
09:05Okay, next question. Swiping up.
09:08Dale Gribble 2024 asks another question.
09:12Okay.
09:12Why do you think Cooper rarely uses his lever action on his back?
09:16Did he dump all his points into gunslinger?
09:20Oh, that's a great question.
09:22Well, I do like drawing from the hip.
09:25I've carried a gun and a number of things that I've done over the years.
09:30One of the real reasons we don't use this gun so much is because it's very hard to get to.
09:37Like, it's so hard to get to.
09:41And the real gun is very, very heavy, which is not a problem.
09:45But because of the prosthetics and its position on my back, we have to trick the audience.
09:50And it has to be kind of pulled halfway out.
09:52So I can't really walk with it so much.
09:54But I take this as a question from someone who wants to see this back kind of action a little bit more.
10:03So I'm going to incorporate that into season three because we're picked up for one.
10:09Next question.
10:10Power Pad asks, what's the best line in the show?
10:15I'm going to give it to this from episode three.
10:18The head.
10:19Thou shalt get sidetracked by bullshit every goddamn time.
10:23It doesn't come out the same without the prosthetics on, does it?
10:27Thou shalt get sidetracked by bullshit every goddamn time.
10:31Thou shalt get sidetracked by bullshit every goddamn time.
10:36It's a little over the top, isn't it?
10:39Anyway, I agree.
10:40I think it's a great line.
10:42Okay, next question.
10:43Walton Goggins.
10:44I didn't ask this question.
10:46Oh, oh, maybe it's just a thing that I said.
10:49Oh, that's interesting.
10:50Okay.
10:50I can tell you that I thought season one was extraordinary, comma, personally, comma.
10:57I was very pleased with it, period.
10:59This blows it out of the water, period, exclamation point.
11:03Yes, I did say that.
11:04I've been around for a really long time, and I've been very fortunate over the course of
11:08my career in television, and in movies is something different, but in television, to
11:14have done a season one of a show that began to build a critical mass, right?
11:22And what I've learned over my experience doing this is that if you are so lucky to have that
11:30happen, then in season two, you have an opportunity to do something extraordinary, transcendent,
11:37really.
11:38You can either play it safe, or you can just put all your chips on red and go for it.
11:43And luckily, the showrunners and the people in charge of our show decided to put it all
11:50on red and go for it.
11:51And everybody felt like they were flexing in this season, from Howard Cummings to the sets
11:58that he designed to Dana Pink, our new costume designer, and everything that she did, all of
12:03our cameramen, all of the puppeteers, because this is an analog kind of tactile world that
12:10Jonah wanted to create that we live in.
12:12Everybody across the board showed up every single day and gave it everything that they
12:16had.
12:17It became big, not because we were trying to make something bigger, right?
12:23But because that's where the story just kind of naturally went.
12:26And I'm very proud of it.
12:29And that's all I have to go off of.
12:31So I love it, and we love it, and we hope that you love it.
12:36Okay, next question.
12:39Scrolling.
12:40ResponsibilityWise74 asks, what's the weirdest coincidence you've ever experienced?
12:46Okay, here it is.
12:48True story.
12:49Never told it on camera before.
12:51I bought a house in the Hudson Valley with my wife and my son.
12:54I was so far over my skis, I thought I had made the worst decision of my life.
13:01Once we got into it, this was going to cost everything that I had worked my entire life
13:06for.
13:06And being the poor kid, not loving himself at that moment, I thought, you're a failure.
13:11You're not going to do it.
13:12You can't pull this off.
13:14This is too big for you, idiot.
13:16Then I exhaled.
13:17Said, no, you got this one day at a time.
13:20The very first thing that we tore apart in the house, because we had to redo it, was the
13:26kitchen sink.
13:27I wasn't there at the time, but the person tore it off and there was a piece of fabric
13:34inside this sink, you know, just like, you know, the things that they kind of put around.
13:38It was built in 1922.
13:39And on this piece of fabric, he sent me a picture and it's a true story, was a potato
13:44sack.
13:45And on this potato sack, it said this, Walton Proof Battleship.
13:53True story.
13:54And I looked at that as a sign that I'm exactly where I'm supposed to be.
13:59Everything is going to be okay.
14:01Okay.
14:01Next question.
14:02Papa Millie 66.
14:05What's your most prized possession?
14:08My phone.
14:09I'm joking.
14:10Can you imagine if I really said that?
14:12If I really said that?
14:13What an asshole.
14:15What is my most prized possession?
14:17Meaning that, okay, take my family out of it.
14:19My most prized possession, I'm going to say a watch that I purchased for myself almost 18
14:26years ago, not having a child at the time.
14:28But once I knew that we were having a child, I realized that I didn't buy this watch for
14:33myself.
14:33I actually bought it to give to my child.
14:36And so, yeah, that is, that's very, very, very important to me because I think about it
14:42on his wrist after I'm no longer here.
14:45This is a depressing interview, isn't it?
14:48It's okay.
14:49It happens.
14:50Life, mortality.
14:52Think about it.
14:52That's what I did with Rick Hatchett.
14:54Next question.
14:55Ooh.
14:55There for you and me asks, what's the most important thing you've learned in acting slash
15:02theater class?
15:03Ooh, wow.
15:04Okay.
15:05Great question there for you and me.
15:08I, I, I, my teacher was a man by the name of Harry Master George, and he taught me everything
15:14that he needed to teach me the very first time I met him.
15:17That was his intro.
15:18That was his bit, if you will.
15:20And it was three things as I remember it.
15:24It was, you turn yourself over to an imaginary set of circumstances.
15:29You read the script 250 times, and it's a child's game.
15:35That's it.
15:36And he said, that's all I will ever teach you.
15:39You can leave right now and never have to pay for an acting class ever.
15:44I said, okay, really?
15:45And he said, not really.
15:46You need to pay here because you need to hear that over and over again for the next eight
15:49years of your life in order to, for it to really penetrate.
15:52So that's, that's what I did.
15:53But it was just those three things.
15:55Thank you very, very much at Wired.
15:57One of my favorite places to sit and talk to myself and to you watching this.
16:03It's been an extraordinary experience that I wasn't looking forward to, but I'm glad
16:07I did it.
16:08Fantastic.
16:09Thank you so much.
16:09Right on it.
16:10Wait, wait a minute.
16:11No, I'm actually the first person to do this, and I'm telling every other person they reach
16:16out to, do it, because Wired Complete Interview is amazing.
16:22Ciao, ciao.
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