TheQueen
03-15-2010, 09:26 PM
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Timothy Olyphant's acting in "Justified" is so great that it strips away the notion that maybe he's so damn likable because of his all-too-short stint on HBO's classic Western series "Deadwood." As Seth Bullock, the sheriff in Deadwood, Olyphant's steely gaze, Zen interior and matinee looks called to mind a younger Clint Eastwood. That "Deadwood" was one of television's best series at the time - then ended abruptly at the end of three seasons - made a lot of people hungry to see him in something like that again.
In the second season of FX's "Damages," he was also a gun-toting killer, but more of the unstable variety. But now he's back as the lead in the cable channel's latest drama, "Justified," as Deputy U.S. Marshal Raylan Givens, born in eastern Kentucky and working in Miami wearing a Stetson and cowboy boots.
Givens is based on the character created by Elmore Leonard, who serves as executive producer on "Justified." All you need is one look at Olyphant dressed for the role to know creator Graham Yost ("The Pacific," "Boomtown," "Band of Brothers") got the ideal actor. And it didn't take FX long to start an ad campaign that makes Olyphant look downright iconic.
Read more: http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2010/03/15/DD3I1CF9S1.DTL#ixzz0iIZwgS3Y
Timothy Olyphant's acting in "Justified" is so great that it strips away the notion that maybe he's so damn likable because of his all-too-short stint on HBO's classic Western series "Deadwood." As Seth Bullock, the sheriff in Deadwood, Olyphant's steely gaze, Zen interior and matinee looks called to mind a younger Clint Eastwood. That "Deadwood" was one of television's best series at the time - then ended abruptly at the end of three seasons - made a lot of people hungry to see him in something like that again.
In the second season of FX's "Damages," he was also a gun-toting killer, but more of the unstable variety. But now he's back as the lead in the cable channel's latest drama, "Justified," as Deputy U.S. Marshal Raylan Givens, born in eastern Kentucky and working in Miami wearing a Stetson and cowboy boots.
Givens is based on the character created by Elmore Leonard, who serves as executive producer on "Justified." All you need is one look at Olyphant dressed for the role to know creator Graham Yost ("The Pacific," "Boomtown," "Band of Brothers") got the ideal actor. And it didn't take FX long to start an ad campaign that makes Olyphant look downright iconic.
Read more: http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2010/03/15/DD3I1CF9S1.DTL#ixzz0iIZwgS3Y