LOS ANGELES TIMES SHOW TRACKER: Creative Minds: 'Justified' showrunner Graham Yost
February 27, 2012
by Yvonne Villarreal
“Justified” executive producer Graham Yost talks about his Nickelodeon days, adapting Elmore Leonard for TV and the fear of repetition...
... Q: What’s your take on killing off characters? It’s become this new thing, to do the unexpected and kill off the folks that, in the past, would escape such a fate at the last minute.
Graham Yost: Everyone wants to ask about Mags. That’s what you’re doing, isn’t it? My new, perhaps glib line, is: It wasn’t hard to kill off Mags, but it was hard to have Margo Martindale leave the show. We miss her. She’s just a great person and a wonderful presence and a brilliant performer. But Mags’ story had run its course and I didn’t want to just keep her around because we loved her. It’s hard. Listen, it was hard to kill Aunt Helen. It was hard to kill off Doyle. There’s some characters in this new season who don’t make it. It’s not easy because you grow to like the people playing the parts and you don’t want to lose that. At the same time, we need to surprise the audience and keep things moving. Sometimes death has to happen."
Q: Is Dewey going to catch a break this season? I feel so bad for that guy.
Graham Yost: "Dewey does not catch a break. But I will say this: Dewey Crowe lives to see another day."
Q: Is it just one more day?
Graham Yost: "Well, maybe more than that. That’s an instance of us just loving a character. Damon Herriman, who plays him, is just the greatest guy. He just does such a wonderful job. He’s truly a chameleon. Dewey is definitely the epitome of dumb but lovable. He’s such an idiot..."
Justified airs Tuesday at 10/9C on FX Networks.
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