Actor Walton Goggins plays The Ghoul in the upcoming Fallout TV series, and now he’s shared a little more about what to expect from the video game adaptation. Speaking to Empire, Goggins said The Ghoul started out as a jolly actor named Cooper Howard. But 200 years later, Howard lost his nose and became The Ghoul, a bounty hunter in the post-apocalyptic wasteland.

He said The Ghoul is a person who will “do anything in order to survive.” Goggins also discussed why he intentionally chose to avoid playing the Fallout games to help shape his performance in the series.

“You have to understand the world that he was living in beforehand to really contemplate the horrors that he’s seen over the last 200 years and why he’s still alive,” Goggins said. “Why doesn’t he just succumb to becoming a [feral] ghoul or put a bullet in his head?”

Goggins went on to say that The Ghoul is a “morally ambiguous” character, not unlike the characters he played on the show Justified and other TV series and movies over the years.

“I can be funny to some people and maybe engender some pathos for horrible people. That’s what I like to think. Or maybe it’s because Sam Rockwell was unavailable,” he joked.