Walton Goggins Reveals How A Fallout Scene Put Him In A "Brutal" Position

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Walton Goggins' The Ghoul looking resolute while standing in a desert in Fallout season 2

Published Feb 11, 2026, 8:16 PM EST

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Fallout season 2 has delivered some shockingly violent moments, and Walton Goggins revealed how disturbing it was to film a particularly gruesome scene.

In Fallout season 2, episode 5, Goggins' character, The Ghoul, betrays Lucy (Ella Purnell). He turns her into her father in exchange for information regarding his wife and child.

Lucy, who was understandably hurt by his actions, shoots him with a power fist, which causes him to fall out of a window. While the incident didn't kill him due to his regenerative abilities, it likely still hurt quite a bit. And, the actor himself didn't have a particularly fun experience filming that scene either.

In an interview with Cinema Blend, Goggins revealed that the whole experience was very "brutal" and "deeply disturbing." He added that the discomfort of having to stay on that pole for around 14 hours for multiple days didn't help the already-awkward situation.

The actor stated that the scene wasn't just physically exhausting, it was also emotionally draining. He explained that portraying a character who is very clearly in pain while surrounded by people who couldn't even be bothered to check on him was a really intense experience, despite it being a fictional scenario.

I don't know, it was 14 hours on the pole. Two days in a row. And it was just a deeply disturbing, emotional place to be in, to need help and for people to be walking around you, you know, much like a street in a f***ing city today. It can be very, very upsetting. But, over the course of it and the nature of this experience for him, because there are consequences in this world.

While The Ghoul didn't die due to that specific incident, Goggins wanted to remind fans that his character isn't invincible. Although the character can survive injuries that humans wouldn't be able to, he is still just as capable of dying as anyone else, so the stakes are still high for him.

The Ghoul is not impervious to dying. He is very capable of dying. And we talked ad nauseum about how close he comes to that and that he would have, in fact, died, right? That was [part of] a lot of those conversations with [creatives], [viewers] had to believe that… there is nothing left and he just for the first time says, ‘I'm a human being and I matter…’

Fallout seasons 1 and 2 are available to stream in full on Prime Video.