Walton Goggins to play a ghoul in the Fallout TV show

And, look: Walton Goggins is a charming and charismatic actor capable of working as a romantic lead, a cruel antagonist, or cunning comic relief. But we’d be lying if we said we didn’t immediately jump to his spray-tanned-to-leather Baby Billy on HBO’s The Righteous Gemstones when we started imagining Walton Ghoulgins.

The Fallout games take place a few hundred years into America’s future, as humanity slowly crawls out of the irradiated wreckage in a world devastated by nuclear war. Ghouls are an important part of the cosmology of the series, primarily because their slow aging means they’re often the only people still alive from when the bombs fell.

As important as Fallout’s setting is, though, its tone is even more vital: A cynical, somewhat absurd satire of the world we live in now, where people continually stumble right back into the same conflicts that killed the world in the first place. It’s part of what makes Goggins’ casting exciting: It’s hard to think of an actor more capable of walking that key line between the deadly serious and the grimly comic.

Fallout is being produced by Nolan and Lisa Joy via their Kilter Films studio, which also produces their series Westworld for HBO.