Interview
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Timothy on Conan
Last night, Justified star Timothy Olyphant appeared on Conan and surmised that he was not nominated for a Golden Globe due to his romantic pasts with several of the journalists in the Hollywood Foreign Press, and then shared the pretty hilarious speech he would have read had he won an award.
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[Video] Ellen DeGeneres Show
The talented actor caught up with Ellen about his wife and three kids, and shared some hilarious stories about their family pets!
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Olyphant Loves Mixing Violence With Comedy
Timothy Olyphant talks about the show’s mix of humor and violence and being elevated to a producer on the series.
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Defined by a Smile and a Drawl
Photos by Andrzej Liguz for The New York Times.
[cpg_albumrand:212,3] IN the premiere of the new season of “Justified,” beginning Jan. 17, a dashing psychopath makes a casual reference to this Kentucky crime drama’s signature prop, the Stetson worn by the protagonist, United States Marshal Raylan Givens.
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‘It’s Fun Pretending to Be Cool’
The actor, 43, returns Jan. 17 as Deputy U.S. Marshal Raylan Givens for season three of FX’s Justified (10 p.m. ET). Season two will be on DVD Tuesday.
Raylan is a tough guy, known for his unblinking stare. Are people intimidated by you?
I’d like them to be, but they’re usually not. I have a number of ways of telling my children how I can have them arrested. It seems to work.The show is set in Kentucky but shot in California. Have you gotten any feedback from southerners?
I don’t feel like I run into too many people from Kentucky. I think I’m hanging around in the wrong places.Will the body count be higher this season than last?
It might be. We’re surely off to the races in the first episode. My guess is a little more blood gets shed this year.Are you a good shot in real life?
Anything within five feet, I’ve got it.What’s your favorite part about playing Raylan?
Well, he doesn’t have to run. I appreciate that I don’t have to do any physical exercise. It’s fun pretending to be cool. -
GQ video Interview
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Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3
Taking advantage of its Los Angeles location, Activision has once again enlisted Hollywood talent to breathe life into virtual heroes in Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3. Hollywood film composer Brian Tyler (The Expendables, Fast Five) enhances the on-screen action with an epic score, while actors Timothy Olyphant (Justified, Hitman), William Fichtner (Drive Angry, The Dark Knight), Billy Murray (Captain John Price from the Modern Warfare series, Essex Boys) and Bruce Greenwood (Thirteen Days, Star Trek) spent days in the recording studio to bring the central characters in the campaign mode to life.
Analysts expect the newest Call of Duty game to break Harry Potter’s record for the biggest entertainment launch ever, as well as eclipse the game records Activision established last year with Call of Duty: Black Ops.
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GQ&A: Timothy Olyphant
“What am I going to wear to the Emmys? Something with a tie,” says Timothy Olyphant with a bone-dry chuckle. There’s much for Olyphant to smile about: as charismatic sheriff Raylan Givens he’s the main draw of Elmore Leonard-inspired western Justified, American GQ described him as the Most Stylish Man On TVand he’s just been nominated for an Emmy up against Jon Hamm. With a slight southern drawl (he’s the kind of 43-year-old who can say “dude” and get away with it) and having just woken up, here he tells GQ.com about stealing on set, the last time he threw a punch and shaving his head for Hitman…
GQ.com: Has your personal style been influenced by Raylan’s wardrobe?
Timothy Olyphant: I like the whole vibe – the boots are especially cool. We just got a hugepair of boots in. They look like some animal tried to eat them; they’re real vintage.What’s a typical Justified fan like?
I have no idea. Every now and then someone says, “Hey man, like the show,” but that’s it. I don’t walk around wearing a cowboy hat and boots so that might be it. I think the beard and overcoat I wear throws people off.When was the last time you threw a punch?
Oh gosh, it’s been a while. I punch a lot of guys on set. It’s much easier than in real life as your hands don’t hurt afterwards. The key is that you miss. -
Milling About Flashback with Timothy Olyphant
Host Robin Milling flashes back to 1999 with Timothy Olyphant for his interview as a drug dealing lothario for Go. Timothy shares his bad boy behavior off the screen with Milling.
Listen the full interview here.
Thank you to Robin Milling!
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TVLINE Interview
By all accounts, Timothy Olyphant ought to have a trophy case full of gold statuettes. His resume is stuffed with award magnets like Deadwood, Damages andThe Office. His acting is consistently acclaimed. And he’s extremely well-liked in the community. But for whatever reason, the self-effacing 44-year-old remains decidedly kudos-deprived. There’s a strong feeling that could change this year in the wake of his impressive work as laconic Deputy U.S. Marshal Raylan Givens in Justified’s pitch-perfect second season.
TVLINE | Season 2 presented us with a much more human, flawed Raylan. Did you discover anything new about the character that surprised you?
It’s hard for me to think of it in those terms, to be quite honest with you. I just do it. I don’t know if it’s a fault or not but I more or less really am just thinking about the stories. I invest a great deal of energy into the stories we’re trying to tell, or where the stories seem to want to go. I’m just guided by, “Oh my God, that would be entertaining. What a moment. What a scene. What an idea.” Everything else I just trust that we’re in the right world.TVLINE | Your storyline with young Loretta McCready revealed a paternal side to Raylan. As far as child stars go, how was Kaitlyn Dever to work with?
She was fantastic. What an actress. [I was] so pleasantly surprised. She was just so good. She wasn’t just good in terms of being present and truthful and capable, but I was really able to throw curve balls at her, change stuff on the spot, and she wasn’t fazed by it. She wasn’t rehearsed. Sometimes I think with kids they’re working with an acting coach and they’ve got their line readings and they’re really pinned down and then when you go, “We’re going to move this line, take this out, switch this around,” they’re like, “Mom! What the f–k is this guy talking about?” [Laughs] She was just so right there. I can’t tell you how much I appreciated that. She was no different than anyone else on that set. Her parents must be pretty cool, because usually if the kid actor is a pain in the ass there’s a pain in the ass right behind them. We lucked out there because those things can be a disaster.