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The Many Lives of Walton Goggins

The actor plays dual roles in 'Fallout'—a monster and the man he used to be—prompting a look back at his own unlikely past.

At one point in the show, adapted by Westworld creators Jonathan Nolan and Lisa Joy from the mega popular Fallout video game series, the Ghoul finds a discarded tape of an old Cooper Howard Western called The Man from Deadhorse. Along the way, Quentin Tarantino handed him dastardly figures to sink his teeth into in Django Unchained and The Hateful Eight, Steven Spielberg cast him as the conflicted congressman Clay Hawkins in Lincoln, and he turned up repeatedly as the sweet-natured trans prostitute Venus Van Dam in the biker series Sons of Anarchy, created by former Shield writer-producer Kurt Sutter. Ella Purnell costars as a naive “vault dweller” whose people led a safe, privileged life underground for many generations, while Aaron Moten is a duplicitous low-level soldier from a militarized, quasi-religious order called The Brotherhood of Steel.

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