JUSTIFIED - TV GUIDE: Right on Target
Feb 16, 2011
by Margy Rochlin
On Justified, when two hillbilly thugs walk into a room with an ominous-looking bag, you know they're not toting the makings of a picnic. Anything might be inside: explosives, guns, a bear trap. For Timothy Olyphant, who stars on FX's crime drama as the low-key but deadly deputy U.S. Marshal Raylan Givens and is now a producer, the secret to the show's rich yet unhurried storytelling is how it triggers the imagination.
"I keep thinking about all the things that could be in the bag," says Olyphant to staff writer Dave Andron as they sit on location in South Pasadena, California, outside of a police museum that's doubling today as a jailhouse in rural eastern Kentucky. "Now the thing that tickles me most is live animals," says Olyphant, who is dressed in full Raylan gear: nicely cut suit, collared shirt, tie, cowboy boots and, of course, his Stetson. "How about a...badger?" Olyphant collapses in a fit of giggles. "Badgers!" he drawls, riffing on The Treasure of the Sierra Madre. "We don't need no stinking badgers!"
Justified airs Wednesdays at 10/9c on FX
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