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Walton Goggins’s Wild Ride To Stardom

Three decades after he arrived in Hollywood with $300 in his pocket, Goggins is finally a bona fide star, with another season of the smash hit Fallout on deck and a risky, personal role in HBO’s The White Lotus about to drop. At home in the Hudson Valley, Goggins looks back on how he got this far—and reveals why his latest role brought him face to face with his painful past.

In 2016, he and Danny McBride played scheming, feuding school administrators in the dark comedy series Vice Principals, an unnervingly prescient portrayal of a strain of petty white-male grievance that the Trump era rendered airborne and contagious. We strap on helmets; Summer loans me a pair of paddock boots and leads me and my mount along a sun-dappled trail through the woods while Goggins and son race ahead to where you can see a view of the Catskills that makes you understand why they named a whole school of landscape painting after this region. PRODUCTION CREDITS: Photographs by Mark Mahaney Styled by Brandon Tan Grooming by Kumi Craig using La MerTailoring by Ksenia Golub Produced by Wei-Li Wang at Hudson Hill ProductionSpecial thanks to Little Brook Farm Sanctuary

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