EntertainmentFallout: How long did Walton Goggins take to do Ghoul makeup? Known for productions such as Sons of Anarchy and The Hateful Eight, Walton Goggins is one of the highlights of Fallout in the role of Ghoulhoje at 10:01

One of the biggest surprises for television series in 2024, Fallout has a very memorable character: Ghoulwhether due to the excellent performance of Walton Goggins or the quality of the makeup, which took hours to complete.

It is worth remembering how the series Amazon Prime Video takes place in the same universe as the games of the same name, although the story and characters are original. The plot begins before the appearance of Wastelandjust before the initial bombs explode – and this happens from the point of view of the character in question.

Before being known as Ghoulhe was called Cooper Howardpopular Western film star whose wife works for the Vault-Tec. Approximately 200 years later, he is separated from his family and completely transformed into a bounty hunter with a badly deformed face, after nuclear war reshapes his appearance. Earth.

During an interview with The Wrap, Walton Goggins revealed how there were conversations, which took place for nine months, about creating the character’s look, whether it would be done practically or with computer graphics (CGI). The only digital aspect of him is his nose, which has been digitally removed.

“What we found was that we wanted to be attractive so that the audience wouldn’t be repulsed by this horrible misconfiguration,” said the actor. “So we wanted them to lean over and look at his face. Once we decided that, Vincent Van Dyk designed pieces that were very thin but very durable, so that it was still me underneath and I could still experience my own facial reactions and they could capture all of that.”

In total, the pre-production team did three versions of makeup until the final version. Initially, Goggins I needed to spend five hours to get ready. As filming progressed, the process carried out by the special effects artist Jake Garber shortened to one hour and 45 minutes.

“I couldn’t close my eyes. I had to sit in the same place all the time. So I would just put on a Western and do research,” the actor continued. “He got so good at it that I said, ‘Man, you need a little more time,’ because some of these movies we were watching were like two and a half hours long.”