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‘I was freaking out’: Walton Goggins on fear, The White Lotus and being a 200-year-old mutant in Fallout

He isn’t afraid to suffer for his art – though even he couldn’t hack prosthetics in 41C heat. The actor talks secrets, sharing tips with Pedro Pascal … and why he loves not getting paid

At one point, he simultaneously starred as an assassin attempting to murder Santa in bloodthirsty Christmas movie Fatman and an adorable, newly widowed father in sunny sitcom The Unicorn. Heads are crushed, guts are splattered and body parts are lopped off without a second thought, but it’s all shot through with the same wild sense of brittle optimism at all costs employed by the source material. Photograph: Andrew Cooper/The Weinstein Company/AllstarAfter The White Lotus will come more episodes of The Righteous Gemstones, Danny McBride’s riotous religious comedy, in which Goggins plays a megawatt televangelist named Baby Billy – plus “another couple of things in the works”.

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