Walton Goggins
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1,611 appearances
7 recordings
6 series
first heard Dec 2024
last heard 2 Jan
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They're on a treadmill like everyone else. And then this woman shows up at their house and is the great disruptor to society. Shake all of these people out of walking through life numbly without kind of experiencing everything that's kind of going on around you. And she's a great catalyst for change for all these people. And it happened to us.
We were at a party that we were throwing at our house and a woman showed up. In her 80s and rang the buzzer and said, I need to get in my house, please. And yeah, so it's predicated on that. And it's a great story. People have really responded to it. I'm really proud of my wife.
Rufus Sewell, Lois Smith, Elizabeth Reaser. Yeah, some really, really great people.
I think so. Thank you very much for saying that, first and foremost. But I do. The art of storytelling, the job of storytelling, the privilege of storytelling, for me, it is a religion. And the way that I was raised, the people that raised me, and their empathy for the world around them and for their fellow men and women... is how I approach every job that I do.
I just, I love getting close to these people that I get to play, that I've had the opportunity to play and understanding the world from their point of view. But that's always been with me since I was a kid. Because that's how I was raised. It makes you emotional.
Okay, well, I think about the shield, you know, and I think about the ending of that. And I think about the tragedy of this person who... who was under the influence of this guy, Vic Mackey, so brilliantly played by Chiklis. And I think about the way that his life ended. And I think about him being on the run.
And I think about the conversation that he had once he found love in his life and he was his own man without much time left to live. Because he found peace and something to live for.
And I go right back there every single time I talk about it. I look at Boyd Crowder's journey, and it is not so different from my own. It is a dude who is just trying to get out of poverty and reinvent himself, not so that other people can see him in a certain way, so that he can see himself in a different way. And his whole journey is something that is so profoundly intimate to me.
Just like the Rick and the White Lotus, every single thing, the role in the Hateful Eight. Chris Mannix is dying on the bed thinking about what does it take to change the heart and mind of one white dude? You know, what does that mean, really? And all of these people, they mean something to me. And what's so exciting about my life is that I'm not done. There are more people for me to meet.
Whether I get it right or whether I don't get it right is irrelevant to me. I will always strive to understand these people with the level of empathy and curiosity that was instilled in me from my childhood and that I moved through life with.
I mean, you know, we dug coal is a metaphor for so many things in our lives, right? Yeah. But yeah, there were people that I grew up with that died or friends that just went a different way. I don't think that that was ever, ever going to happen for me. I don't think I had a choice.
Well, you know, I really and I genuinely mean this. I've said this so many times, but I don't believe in playing a character. I don't believe in making choices. I don't sit in a room and go, oh, is it is Baby Bella right here? What is he? Oh, he's a baby Billy here. Like, where is he? How does he walk? I don't really think about those things.
I don't stand in front of a mirror and go, well, wouldn't it be interesting? Like from a cerebral kind of analytical point of view, you just put on the costume and put on the clothes and then you're just that person. I just spent so much time in my imagination, imagining these people are real.
Absolutely. So, okay, my father, there's an... A bit of the belly of your dad. Yes, absolutely. Yeah, just kind of like a big flamboyant personality that can just fill up a room. And my father's an amazing guy and a really entertaining guy. He was a tough guy for a long time when I was growing up, but... he's a very, very, very interesting person. I'm Walton Sanders Goggins Jr.
and my half-brother is Walton Sanders Goggins III. My father is probably by definition a clinical narcissist, but he's also, he's a good man. My father has a really good heart. And like all of us, And he just did the best he could, you know, with his trauma. And I do have a lot of forgiveness in my heart and not even forgiveness, just understanding at this point.
Well, you know, I can tell you that my own relationship with my own father, I was very angry at my own father.
That I had to move through. And it wasn't all gone, you know, like a miracle in that moment. But it did open the door and it did allow me to begin that process. And it did speed it up because I wanted to have that forgiveness. And Rick...
For the first time in his life, two weeks before this show started, he is someone who is in a moment of doing inventory in his whole life, in a sober moment, looks around and says, how did I get here? Why am I here? Why am I living this life? And there in his mind is one person that is responsible for that, that permanently altered the course of his life in a very negative way.
And Mike White, with all of these stories, but this one in particular, he brings such a deeply nuanced observation of these experiences in the world. And he's able to tell them with humor, but with pathos and with anger, you know, in a way that very few people can.
It has been such a pleasure to be in your company. Thank you so much for this conversation, truly.
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