Conan Is Impressed By Walton Goggins’ Clogging Skills | Conan O'Brien Needs A Friend

must be hard to believe sometimes when. you think back to you as a kid growing. up I know you were I think you were born. in Alabama is that correct born born in. Alabama raised raised in Georgia but you. just had this Vision that this is what. you were supposed to be doing with your. life that's how it's always occurred to. me or how I've when when I when I've. read about you heard about you that you. just had this idea that like I need to. be doing this I need to be an actor not. that you necessarily knew a ton of. people who did that you just you just it. felt like almost a vis.

well you know. I the fact that you're doing a travel. show and you live the life that you have. lived and um and other people have had a. similar trajectory and the audacity of. thinking that you can live a life as a. creative. person for me I'm I'm a poor kid from. Georgia I was raised uh in a very. unconventional way with um when I say. crazy women what I mean by that is. that's what I love I was raised mostly. by women and they were insane your dad. was of the picture when you were three.

yeah I mean he was he was out yeah when. they were three right and um but you. know he was around a little bit but. mostly it was my grandmother and my mom. and and her sisters and and we've talked. about this before my aunt and uncle were. both actors in the theater so I'd been. exposed to that and and seeing them on. stage for the first time but I was also. raised with a group of people that were. extremely. entertaining and you know I mean we. watched TV a little bit it wasn't like a. big movie household or anything like. that we sat outside on the porch and uh.

and told stories you know about the day. or about things that happened in the. past and the Baton would be passed uh if. you will and I just happened to come. from a family where everyone was. entertaining on some level and it was uh. I I I still think about it and I and I. miss it I miss those times but. really other than walking into the. casting director's office when I was 14. years old and we've gone through that. story as well I wanted to see the world.

first and foremost but I I also I I I. was drawn to storytelling because not. because of exposure to cinema or. exposure to anyone else that had done it. but because I I felt like wow this is a. place I feel normal yeah you know I I. think I am a people that know me would. say that I am Earnest I'm an Earnest guy. and and I'm a pretty sensitive guy um I. suppose there's a little level of. volatility there you know on some level. but it was a place that I found great.

comfort in a place where I felt like I. belonged I didn't know how to go about. doing it um even though I was very lucky. to start working in Atlanta my. observation about you I and I I is that. because I was thinking about you today. knowing that I'd see you and I was. thinking about you know all the work. that you've you've done uh and all the. roles that you've played and whether. it's you're in Vice principles or. whether you're in righteous gemstones. which uh I adore I love righteous gem.

stones or even on justify when you're. playing you know this character who's. got terrible terrible flaws and you know. racist views and former like Neo-Nazi. Boyd Crowther all of your characters are. entertaining people they're very silver. tonged and they're funny and I've always. thought you can't play that unless that. is the in some way the essence of who. you are I don't think an unfunny person. can play a funny person does that does. that feel right to you I would agree.

with that I I guess yeah in the way that. I'm never going to play like a sexy man. in a movie anden that's not if I can. play a sexy man you can play a sexy no. no no what there have been many screen. tests and apparently when the camera. gets in close there's a thing that. happens the camera. breaks a break is it shatters there's a. quality you have where I think oh. there's no way Walton wouldn't be a fun. guy to hang out with because you've.

played too many characters that really. tickle me where I think oh yeah okay. he'd be a he'd be a fun hang I think I'm. a pretty fun hang yeah I think I I think. I can be a fun hang I think you know I I. don't know how you guys feel about this. but I I I'm not funny in the way that. Danny mbbride is funny right right uh. situationally uh funny my my wife is uh. very very funny and I hang out with some. funny people not a lot of a lot of. comedians I don't have a ton of comedian. friends but uh but I I think I can throw.

some stuff out without trying to be. funny and people find it humorous but. more often than not when whenever I'm. working I take all of those things very. very seriously you know it's not it. really isn't comedy for me it and it. it's not not comedy either it's just uh. this is the reality of the situation and. it. dictates this experience and just kind. of turn myself over to it and try not to. control any of it there was a great.

flashback scene in the righteous. gemstones back to earlier in your life. where where you clog and dance yeah I. didn't know that your character was. going to be clogging and and you start. singing this song about being naughty. and clogging and I was howling but also. appreciating that he's. good thank you con I appreciate you can. clog you can clog which would make you. in my opinion if you can clog and you.

can drink and you can drink and clog. you're a really good hang there's a lot. of countries I can I've got a tour. coming ahead of me is what you're saying. I do my you know my mom was a my mom was. a great dancer she's a really good. dancer and uh and. she took me into clogging lessons when I. was really young uh so that I could kind. of dance with her and she also kind of. taught me how to twep I grew up kind of. going to Honky Tonk bars and and things. of that nature and she was she did a.

dance called The Bop which is um kind of. the the Florida version of the North. Carolina shag which is kind of like the. working man's version of a very kind of. Posh southern dance and um and and. dancing and and music and drinking and. celebration was a big part of my my my. childhood and uh and I'm and I'm so. grateful for it I I don't meet that many. people that uh that have clogging on. their resume or calling or it's so funny.

cuz. the can you make us still in 10 minutes. yes I can sir you know what I had. somebody come up to me the other day a. very dear friend of mine and I just. posted this picture of um I was just. just because it was the end of a very. big block uh in the White Lotus and I. was having a glass of wine which I do. nightly and uh and listening to this. radio head song and and I just recorded.

this video of me singing this radio head. song and and what if when I am asked. what it was like on working on the White. Lotus this is probably what I'll say and. a very good friend of mine said the next. day she I saw her and she said you. listen to radio. head yeah I listened to radio head she. said I thought you only listen to whan. Jennings I thought you. only only like Willie Nelson only like. Ernest tubs yeah yeah you know I said no. man I Listen to I listen to Ethiopian.

Jazz I listen to. everything once you lead with I clog and. I and I hog call that everybody else. thinks well you know he only eats uh. fried pork chops and country fried steak. and biscuits where's Walton I don't know. let's go to the Cracker Barrel he'll be. over there he'll Hey where's Walton. Walton's over there he's he's at the. jerky stand that's where he spends all. his P. yeah yeah the studi chewing you out you.

spent $900 on jerky.