COLLIDER: Walton Goggins Interview JUSTIFIED Season 2
by Christina Radish
Posted: March 23rd, 2011
On the FX drama Justified, actor Walton Goggins plays the intriguing, complex and still completely mysterious Boyd Crowder. Long time friend and ultimate nemesis to U.S. Marshal Raylan Givens (Timothy Olyphant), the extremist turned born-again Christian leader turned mine worker always keeps viewers guessing.
In a recent interview, Walton Goggins talked about the growth of his character over Season 2, Boyd’s own moral compass and code of ethics, his evolving relationships on the show, exploring the possibility of love for his character, and how Boyd is still a definite mystery to him as well...
... Do you think that Boyd has an inner conflict about being true to his word?
GOGGINS: "I think what Graham [Yost] and the writers were able to do this year, and hopefully what I’ve been able to participate in, is the antithesis of the first season, where the viewers never bought that Boyd’s spiritual conversion was for real, until the end. This season, on some level at least, the viewers believes Boyd, but the rest of the people in Harlan don’t believe Boyd. That’s really interesting because I think that the actions that Boyd may take in the future may have a wider margin of forgiveness from the viewers, if they completely understand this guy. We’ll see what happens.
There are things that Raylan does that are not on par with Boyd, but certainly can be construed as immoral and borderline criminal. These two guys are moving closer together, and there are things that happen, as the season progresses. I don’t know that it was necessarily constructed that way, from the beginning, where they found themselves experiencing emotions in different ways, but that were very similar, but that’s really cool. When you’re looking at two different people, in two different worlds, going through the exact same thing, and neither one of them really knows it about each other, that was something that I was excited to read and that I hope viewers are excited to watch. At the end of the fifth episode this season, Boyd had an epiphany. There’s a certain realization, on his part that, that’s like, “Wait a minute, this may indeed be who I am.” It’s not the Boyd from Season 1. It’s not the guy who found God, and then lost God. It’s a guy that is dipping his toes in the water and figuring out who he is. I feel like that’s what Boyd’s been doing since the show began, to be quite honest with you..."
Justified airs Wednesday at 10/9C on FX.
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