TIMOTHY OLYPHANT TALKS 'JUSTIFIED' CHARACTER

Wednesday, January 18, 2012

TIMOTHY OLYPHANT TALKS 'JUSTIFIED' CHARACTER

Timothy Olyphant talks about the 3rd season of his show 'Justified'.

Timothy sat down with New York magazine to talks about the story line of the 3rd season of 'Justified'.   Timothy talks about being the star and producer of the show.

Timothy also talks about borrowing from Raylan novel.  Also on the Winona pregnancy.  Here is what Timothy had to say:

On Being Both Star & Producer: “What a producer does is one of the great mysteries of life. I don’t know what template I’m following, but I’ve basically got the green light to completely overstep in every department. You name it, I’m in there meddling, poking my nose in there – from the writers to the designers to the special effects to the stunts. It’s too much fun! I’ll be stumbling around the art department going, ‘What can you make in here? What are you capable of?’ It’s sort of a never-ending playground. I don’t quite understand it all, and sometimes I have no clue what they’re all doing, but it’s fascinating to watch the story come together. It’s a fun math problem every time.”
On Stealing From Leonard’s Raylan: “We steal a lot from that. I’m a big fan of his stories, so I read them at every turn I get as it is. But that book, we stole a lot of it for season two. We just stripped it apart last year. We were sort of privy to the book as it was being written in its various stages, so last season, we read some of what he was writing, and many of the characters are in large part from the book. We did our own thing with it – in the book, it was a patriarch instead of a matriarch – but he had the sons, the storefront, the marijuana, and Loretta McCready hanging out, as well as the coal mining representative coming to Harlan, the town meeting, and Raylan as security detail. That’s all in the book, and he encouraged us to steal from it.”
On Leonard Stealing Right Back: “We had the original stories, Graham [Yost, the showrunner] took those and added some of his own characters, and Elmore, God bless him, then wrote about some of the characters that were created for the show. For instance, Rachel is a character Graham created for the show, and Elmore took her and put her in the Raylan book, and then he took the liberty of telling us things about her that we didn’t know – like where she’s from and how she paid her way through college. So we took it right back, and put it in episode four of this new season. It just tickles me that we’re riffing off each other like that. I’m not sure there’s anything like that anywhere else! Instead of just having Raylan from the books versus Raylan the TV character, now it’s sort of blurring into something new, a new universe. Maybe it’ll be like James Bond – and it’s just a question of, twenty years from now, which other dude gets to wear the hat?”
On Neal McDonough as a mobster: “[The Oxycontin turf war] seems to be an easy way to capitalize on the hardships of the people in Harlan. What’s cool is that there are all these new people around who are capitalizing on the absence of Mags Bennett, because all the bad guys want a piece of the pie. And they can’t all have it. ”
On Winona’s Pregnancy: “It makes everything harder. It’s harder to break up with someone, harder to maintain a relationship, harder to do dangerous work. That’s the whole trick: How do you keep all these balls in the air? That’s what I keep telling my kids Life was easy until they came along! Nah, that’s not fair to tell them that. But that also works to get them to brush their teeth. I’d rather Raylan get a golden retriever. One step at a time! I think a dog would be good for him, some kind of therapy, outside of hunting people down.”

I have never seen the show since i do not watch tv.  I hate commercials. So it if ever comes to Netflix i will watch it.