Walton Goggins
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7 recordings
6 series
first heard Dec 2024
last heard 2 Jan
Walton Goggins’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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I still say my per diem. I understand the value of a dollar.
A living allowance.
And I will spend $1,000 on a meal, but only after I've eaten for free for 10 days. You know what I mean? Just the insecurity of, even though I never lost a house, my mom never lost her house or anything like that, but the insecurity of not being able to provide for my family.
Well, he gave me some advice and he gave me a compliment that I certainly wasn't expecting. We were at lunch and he said, I want to tell you something. Hey, hey. He said, you know, not many people can do what you just did. Not many people are willing to do what you just did. And because you're not thinking about it and you're just coming from your heart, there is no filter on you.
And you're turning yourself over to an imaginary set of circumstances. But he said, don't lose that. He said, I don't even think you're fearless. I don't even think fear comes into it. I think maybe you're fearful, but I don't think it's a decision for you to be fearless. I don't think you came to this job thinking, I'm going to show people, I'm going to just let it all hang out.
It's just in your body. And don't ever, ever, ever lose that. Be that open always. What he was saying was, you're not jaded. It's not like you don't have obstacles that you need to overcome and deep insecurities. But what you do have is an open heart and don't Don't lose that, man. You know what I mean? Always come from that, even if you get it wrong.
But don't lose that love and passion for this work or that you appear to have in life.
Well, I just never – I've been around for such a long time. Based on my looks or my personality, I'm not like a conventional leading man or I haven't been my whole life. And the people that knew what to do with me knew what to do with me early on. But I just didn't have those opportunities in film making. you know, a couple of like kind of leading roles that movies that no one saw.
And I, and I'm, I'm still so proud of them. And I just, I made the most out of every single opportunity that I was given. And because the only thing that you can control in this business is Is the work that you put into it, right? Expecting nothing in return. And I have had that. I just didn't have those opportunities.
And it was only once television kind of opened up for me that I began to carve out a space for me. with these opportunities that went in many different ways. But for the most part, if you get the opportunity to go to work, you go to work. Whenever you've been away from it a little long because your ego got involved and you think, oh, well, that's beneath me. Is it? Really? Go to work.
Oh, man. You know, after The Shield, you know, I mean, it was prestige television at the dawning of this last iteration of that.
Yeah, it would have been. We did the pilot before 9-11. And then they picked it up and we went to work, whatever, six or seven months later. But after that experience, you know, seven years later. Having that experience after that, you know, I couldn't get a job for anything, you know, nothing kind of came my way.
And I guess because just like when people saw The Apostle, we had a premiere at the Toronto Film Festival. And I remember my manager's friend leaning in and whispering my ear, this is going to be a big movie for you. Even though you have a smaller part, you take it emotionally. Get ready.
Nothing happened because people thought I was just from New Orleans and from Louisiana and I just got this local hire or whatever. And people thought about me like for a really long time.
I didn't think too much about it, to be quite honest with you, Tanya. I just thought, just go back to work. And so after The Shield, nothing happened. And then a friend of mine was doing this movie. It offered me a really, really small part. And my ego was in the way. It was like, man, I just want more. And I was walking with my wife. She looked at me and said, you need to go to work.
And I said, yeah, that's exactly what I need to do. I'm going to call him right now. And I did. I took it. And work begets work. And so for me, that's happened two or three times in my – after The Hateful Eight. I could – phone didn't ring, you know, for a long time. And it's like, man, this is Quentin.
I mean, that's pretty good people in this movie. I mean, like, right.
A second one. Right. With Sam and with Kurt and Jen and Tim. Like – and I couldn't get a job. And then – I got a phone call to do something. And I just thought, yeah, you know what? I can do that. And it was just, it's almost like God just said, okay, well, you're just going to have to keep moving. You know what I mean?
You're going to have to keep swimming upstream and all of these different ways and go off on this little tributary or this one here, because those are the opportunities that you're getting. So just say yes.
I think one of the most important takeaways for the movie for me is that the uninvited is actually an invitation to live your life more meaningfully. And that's what all of these characters do. They have money, but as they say in the movie, Most of this is borrowed anyway. They're just renting. They bought a house that they'll never be able to pay for. It's just a facade.
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