Timothy Olyphant Talks Justified: City Primeval, Deadwood, Curb & More w Rich Eisen | Full Interview

star of fx's Justified City primeval he is back as RaeLynn Givens which is a gift to anybody who knows Justified or Leonard Elmore or Elmore Leonard or all of that stuff we are so excited to have here on the Rich Eisen show Timothy Oliphant back here on the show how you doing Timothy uh it's good to be back thanks for having me I'm telling you as soon as you start talking I'm reminded just how smooth and easy you make it all alone although I just called one of the greatest uh authors in the history of authoring uh what Len Elmore is a great uh announcer and basketball player but anyway long story did I miss it no you know what I did I should have just let it come by the way technically uh Oliphant did I really I'm on a run right now where I've decided I'm gonna honestly I feel like I have years I've let it slide and I've created a problem okay my dad gets offense my dad gets upset what does your dad get upset about well when he hears uh all the fans Oliphant okay by the way when I say he hears it like he hears it from my children when they say their names Oliphant and he goes what and he goes it's all of it and they looked at me and says Tim what are you doing I said let him see it how they want so so you've been on this show hold on a second you've been on this show multiple times you were on a podcast so long ago that that's what the predated this show 12 years you've been doing as a matter of fact you set the record for most curse words in the history of that I'm proud of that broadcast and I've been mispronouncing your last name the entire time well I only noticed it now so it's all offense Oliphant like an elephant but olive that's exactly right okay Oliphant Timothy Oliphant here on the rich Isaac it's a mouthful I don't expect no it's great by the way I just dropped to Timothy just go with Tim and maybe it makes it easier Tim oliphan we're not that close go back to Timothy [Applause] it sounded I just walked right into that fantastic Roland Gibbons is back you know I've heard it really give ends is it I mean yeah yeah let me let me correct you and uh I've had this mug in my uh I've sent you a photographed you a photograph of this mug and on my desk with it holds pencils yeah uh now take this one we do go way back like a car seat you know just just say buddy my bud just say Yeah Tim how before you get to the show by the way yes sir the uh we're gonna talk Justified because that of course but I also want to say because this feels right up your alley okay and forgive me I'm I'm self-promoting here please but uh there's a soda bird thing can I know yeah that is also I'm I and I'm not taking uh credit for this yes certainly not full responsibility but I feel like I'm going to be two for two on these I bet you will they're sweet full circle full circle how about that see that's the name of the show that's coming on Max and by the way uh because I don't know him very well I would call it HBO Max but I know it's not Max now yeah you can't be expected this whole thing I can't keep up and Steven Soderbergh is the director of that one I heard there's a something called Roku sorry speaking of insanely um popular and successful Academy award-winning directors that you have worked with is it true Tim that we can because I've been telling you I'd love to see more railing Givens I'd love to see more railing Givens that we can now credit is Quentin Tarantino for this or what here what do we got he and I uh had a conversation about this um on the sense on the set of Once Upon a Time in Hollywood yes and yes it still gives me a little tingle just to talk like that's my part of my life yes it's still just uh pretty cool I've had it pretty good um stick around long enough they say uh and where I said hey let me ask you something uh I had this idea because we've been talking about bringing the show back but we need the the something to jump start it you know something to give us a get it going and I said what if we took uh we took this Eleanor Leonard book City Prime Evil and just stripped it for parts and and turned it into a railing story and he thought that was a great idea and that's it that that helped so you put some wind in our sails you had the the the seeds of the idea or you were the one who was coming up with the ideal you had this book you saw the book let's just say it was right your audience it was all on me that's all my idea and Quentin tarantee when he said exactly and so when Clinton's like the writers that we had been talking to guys from the show we we've always stayed in touch we've always talked about wanting to bring it back yes um I love those guys I love that collaboration they mean the world and we were just looking for we were looking for that idea to get it get it started yes and and I brought that idea up to Quentin I mean I'm there on the set I'm not going to waste an opportunity here to pick his brain yes and um I knew he knew the show he was a fan of the show um and he was huge Elmore Leonard fan he's adapted him himself yes amazingly so with Jackie Brown and what I didn't know is that he was going to at one point make City primeval the a film and he's so he loves really he loves the book and he was very enthusiastic and at one point was going to direct two of our episodes yeah and what happened there was a it was an unfortunate thing where he just well uh he went and had a kid and uh yeah well he's got in the way the kids will screw it up that's what they do people say they change your life and it that's really code for they get in the way father of the Year Tim elephant well congratulations on you the best dad ever best dad ever nine years running and I have a 14 year old that said uh right here and I got this i got this a few years ago working out the Kinks so what was it like for you to put the hat back on for the first time and look in the mirror and see okay there's nothing about aging it doesn't affect hat size you know what I mean otherwise people won't know what the show is so uh let's see there it is there you go you put the hat back on and they're like oh there it is same old same is it like an athlete putting on eye black where like you could get in a mindset before you walk out on the stage there and you put that exactly like that Superman's cape it's got to be something similar it felt so similar to my NFL days uh when I put on the well you won't you play tennis you don't wear you know I I will throw on the zinc very similar very similar throw it on the zinc so it's similar I'm a big fan of the zinc you know what I mean yeah I know and by the way I'll go with Colors by the way since you and I have last had a conversation yeah on this show and you poked merciless fun at me at the way I mimicked I don't recall making making uh uh you know a a tennis racket swing motion where I went like this and you said it's not like well it's still a little haunted by it exactly it's not like slamming a door Rich you know you got to put spin on it I have since taken many you you inspired me and to take many lessons good for you um I'm okay at it I can't take I probably you'd still probably kick my ass a little sure I think everyone expects that but I think still though but I I know what you mean I got brush I got brush you've got you sink it up I got brush I'll brush it up you think it up I'll brush it up we'll see what's up yeah and what's the backswing look like is it let me see the back oh yeah hold on up yeah one-hander uh no like do I love it is it gonna take off though is it a spectator sport no no I don't think so although I will on occasion I'm sure golf is a spectator sport and yet there it is I will on occasion see I will see on occasion a point or two and stop and watch and maybe get a pointer and not actually put it into practice when I actually plays but I do love it it's great so you play how often do you play pickle not as often no not as often as uh as tennis still pretending my knees uh don't hurt okay and uh but I do love the pickle and if it was uh I do and I'll tell you this I was for years like a lot of tennis players like oh come on like if you found out a buddy was playing pickle and that's why he couldn't play tennis and then I went out there and and three hours later I was in my backyard going honey I feel like we could fit a court right yeah I mean it was so much fun all right do you want to tell him what you say then every single time pickleball's brought up go ahead go ahead well say to my buddy Tim well go ahead and I feel like we're friends we go way back for a long time um how old are you again no he's no years age according to Wikipedia pickleball is 55. but I still don't think that's right okay can't confirm of a certain age oh uh no you're wrong you're wrong yes no I I was out there playing with uh professional tennis players because guys on the tour because it's a fad now that's why that's why they're into it well this is this is what Chris you're catching up to our conversation I think it I think it started out with that sort of well I guess I asked if it was a spectator sport right which is another that's a different story so it's not I'm not saying it's a fact I don't think it's a fad I think it's sticking around so like it's cooled a little bit no it hasn't just because I have stopped talking I think it's got a lot going for it it does taking up less space everybody can play it the entry level is good but the people that are really good are real it's pretty fun so you played with people on a tour yeah I played with like yeah I've had a chance to play with some really good some some ball players you're gonna drop a name or what come on Big Sam query I know that's gonna impression by the way yeah I was out there playing that my first time ever playing uh my san uh Sam um another guy plays on the pickleball tour former college tennis player and my daughter ever played college tennis and so I was listening I was there with three very good tennis players slash pickleball players yes and um it was a kick to play and they were they were tagging the ball and then it was sweet yeah and they know how to they did it the little the little Peter Dinklage every now and then yeah this it's this the sound I could do without yeah but it's pretty fun okay there's a sweat involved it's totally yeah by the way paying him no attention are you you're just uh you're a downer when it comes to pickle yes you're not alone by the way and then I challenged him and he said I don't want to hurt my achilles the problem is here's the problem is that I've really dug in on this stance and I would feel like a pretty big hypocrite back pedal no you wouldn't stop it you can no you wouldn't be alone on that either that guy we just be closer and I that is one of my goals in life is to be closer to Tim this is what we're doing here we're all just trying to come together it'll be a great finish figure it out to justify City primeval seeing Raylan Gibbons step in the kitchen getting called for being in the kitchen that'll be fantastic he would not be happy with that oh if you know what if this show goes well and um there's a plea to the viewers and the listeners um watch the show because I've always wanted to do another one after this one um and by the way it's good so I'm not I'm not trying to cheat you but if we bring it back yes I feel like raelyn's gonna be playing pickle yeah that alone in the Hat obviously in the Hat of course I mean you can't if you don't have the Hat on no one knows it's the show they're like what is the show most important question since we're spitballing here and we're creating the second season Justified City it's just like talking with Quentin on the set premieres tomorrow exactly Eastern our sales exactly and I don't allow cell phones on this set either 10 p.m Eastern on FX uh and you could watch it on Hulu the next day which is available here on Roku so hold on a second okay so I just want to turn this off really quick I don't wanna I had forgotten I had forgotten no that's okay I'm very Tarantino like like that um so would raylen zinc it up is the question does railing given zinc it up well he's going to when he's pulling people for sure I just love watching you kick ass and take names like this well and that's what's going to be cool is to see him go from playing pickle to kicking ass and by the way he's going to do a lot for pickle I feel like I think that might bring you around when you see raelyn playing and then kick an ass right I like that he has shortened it like Tom Cruise like it's not pickleball it's pickle it's what it's just stop talking you just below your ignorance on the subject matter with each syllable I don't get the reference no just these this shortens words like oh I'm not working a mission impossible that's he he learned from Tom Cruise the very badass way of talking about your filmography so for instance you wouldn't have said well I was on the set of Once Upon a Time in Hollywood I was on a set of Hollywood I was on the setup you know what I mean that's what I'm like by the way can we get back to primeval just please see what I did there please shortened it [Laughter] wow by the way and I also I told you earlier also check out Circle because circles yes so tell me what what is that about with Soderberg what's that about that is a uh uh it's like a botch kidnapping that just exposes everybody's dirty little secrets it is so intense and so riveting the performances are so good Claire Danes Dennis Quaid you yeah it's sort of it's he's this is one of the smartest people I've ever come across so what they call uh a genius I would agree yeah um he just doesn't miss so it's it's pretty cool yeah riveting okay riveting all right and that's on Max the original limited series um I've never asked you this so I'm gonna ask you how did you get involved with Curb Your Enthusiasm and Larry David and those episodes which by the way you are brilliant in those are some funny funny episodes of Curb Your Enthusiasm thank you I appreciate that I don't I don't know how to do it any other way you only know one speed I like it I like it you know what I mean I'm like you I just I just win I just like complimenting it just win what's in my hair uh I do appreciate it was so fun to be a part of that oh my God that's one of those jobs where uh I'd pay to be there um I mean not really but you know what I mean the spirit of the what I'm saying yes um I had done I had uh Jeff Schaefer who uh produces that show because you know runs that show there with Mr David I had worked I think this is how I got on there yeah but I had worked with uh he had a show called it's a sports show the league there you go yes and uh I play I was on the I did an episode of The League okay so that was the beginning of that relationship and I think that's what might have something to do with it I don't know so you never met Larry David before getting on the set with him no never what was that like oh what a joy I had not usually with most people that I am obsessed with and because that's a show I'm not a big TV show guy I actually don't like a lot of TV but I will watch curb till you know yeah till they till they quit um I did not know he was such a a generous laugher I didn't know he was he just laughs and uh it was a ball and I'm guilty of that too okay I'll crack up in the middle I'm pretty easy to crack up on the set right so just laughing with him and the way they shoot that is so fun and they're getting away with murder it's just it's so fun so did you ad-lib many of your lines or I mean basically the I don't want to go two in the weeds but you know they they don't have a script per se they just have an outline right so for my episode for example they would have a scene where it just says you know Larry's gonna come to your room uh he needs a toothbrush you have an extra toothbrush but you won't give it to them right that's and uh because that's your toothbrush and he's having a you know so you you arrive on set and they've they kind of just huddle up and we read that that's the scene and then they say okay let's go and the first take might be 15 minutes and maybe two you know a minute of it's usable um and you just kind of begin to shape it um and you know the one piece of advice I had gotten or I I tend to listen to is you know don't try to be funny and when in doubt just repeat what the other person says so you know you know it cut to you know seconds after that you know here he knocks on the door cameras are rolling and he's like uh yeah I need two you got an extra toothbrush and I said yeah I got one he's like oh great I need it and I was like oh you can't have it you know what I mean he's like what are you talking about and you're just going and then it's slowly's like okay next take uh here's what we liked that's funny let's do more of that yeah you know all of a sudden it starts becoming a toothbrush emergency and then I'm talking about but that's your toothbrush emergency that's not my toothbrush emergency and all of a sudden you realize oh my God this is the show where we just sort of stumbled in this is the show and I said to him how do you get one of these I mean I've been memorizing Lions my whole life what do you saying what an idiot Seinfeld is that what he said just do Seinfeld yeah yeah so you know listen I I uh that my character's not dead if they're listening I I had a ball on there yeah that was fun that was a funny episode with the Toblerone and the weights and whatever it was amazing you know I started to slouch but I didn't want Chris to have to come over and adjust my camera understood look at you can you just get over here can you oh my God can you just hustle over here all right well you know I just uh finished Daisy Jones in the six I love everything you're in man like literally but I really I was working on that I had a ball on that thing uh well I'm sorry I went back yeah go back to your seat he's just hating you you guys really uh when we're into it you guys have really cut down here at the staff uh I appreciate that I had a ball doing that thing um uh the guys that uh created that show uh was Scott new stedler and um no one wants to know the director's name but he's a wonderful director but uh I had known them for a while and they gave me a shout about that uh about that character I love that genre I love those um and we we just had a good time you know 70s that was really cool what a wonderful cast what a lovely group of people it was it was uh it was fun fun to hang out with those those folks what's your favorite James Bond salt listen director what's your favorite Deadwood story give me one favorite Deadwood story yes from the entirety of it all what do you want I told you the one about uh killing the kid can I is that fair to talk about at this point what is it again story it's the first one that came to mind uh you know what [ __ ] it let's go for it I'm not saying this I know I'm having second thoughts but I'm still going to commit to some part of the story very well there was a character on the show perhaps it was a young character and uh there was some brew hog going on that uh somebody connected to that uh that actor was being a pain in the ass and um there was some there was some drama behind the scenes that's odd for David milch production so good okay so there's this kid and uh there's some brouhaha going on that didn't sit well with milch and yeah I tend to stay out of those things I didn't know much about what was going on yes but within just an hour or two there was a knock on my trailer door and milches there and unusually we we tend to just talk it on a Saturday talk at lunch so the fact he's at my trailer I said you know what's going on he said um we're gonna kill the kid [Laughter] that was dissolved to whatever was happening behind the scenes I'm not sure it wasn't the first time that was a solved by the way there was some other there was we had we had other there's there was another character at one point that was a bit of an issue with scheduling and he didn't live he didn't live long either but what's amazing about that this story is if I may the creativity of that man because that happened uh he said to me he goes look uh he immediately he's no dummy he knows underneath just a neurotic actor he said right after he said I'm gonna kill the kid he said um it's going to be wonderful for you wonderful storyline like it's going to be great and he we had this whole you know the show there was a kid that died and it was a tragic event the whole town witnessed it yeah um me sitting over the kids while he's still with us and um he his his real father was my character's brother I was raising my older brother's child yes he's talking to me as if I'm he thinks I'm uh his real father um it was uh let's go into mourning and the town is in disarray it needs and they don't know when it's right to La go get Bullock and swearing just got to come to our house and he comes through the front door for the first time and we sit in my home all these amazing so my he wasn't wrong it was incredible drama it took up the bulk of that season and it was born out of and I was like what the [ __ ] was this show gonna be about I mean they're historical figures he has no problem taking creative license sure I mean it's it's we never I mean the season we were gonna do the guy was amazing you know you know um that Mrs Bullock yes when I got the job I was told uh she her character would arrive that like at the um sometime in the first season and she would show up with the kids and you'd be and then it was like well this is going to be the final episode then he came up to me he said at the final episode your wife shows up and then and then he said next year and so you know he was just he was so willing to just go with like no what's happening here is really interesting there's more here to dig into and it's just a willingness to Zig and zag and know that he still had history on his side we had a self-contained set it was a perfect storm of Madness and creative genius and somehow it all worked it was amazing well I mean it was something to be around yeah played by uh unbelievable played by Anna Gunn who many people know is Mrs Walter White and a gun yes the lovely The Talented just a wonderful woman uh she thought she was showing up season early season one then not till end of season one and then you know hang on we'll have you next year and then you know you'll be part of an incredible plot twist based on the fact that somebody was paining the ass off camera David milch is like somebody connected I'm not naming who was a good night whatever and look now keep in mind that may not have even been the real truth no I mean even for David what's real that's true I got you you know what I mean like he is he was uh I don't know what's real he might have had that plan all along and he was looking for the nudge I don't know he might have had it you don't know I just know that that's my experience I bet and that was weekly kids should never understand that bad tip of the fifth race itself amazing it shouldn't have ever happened amazing Tim thank you for coming on uh it is always great having you here it's a pleasure it's always a pleasure to be here and I appreciate you thank you very much uh watch Justified City primeval on FX it premieres tomorrow 10 p.m Eastern on on Hulu the next day available right here on the Roku platform and uh everyone should watch it so we can watch Raylan Givens play Pickleball in the second season of this Terrific show Tim elephant elephant no it's an all did I say it's n-a-l-l Oliphant I don't want to drag out the end clothes here that was such a lovely clothes we'll be right back here on the Dick Eisen show right here catch the Rich Eisen show every single day on the Roku Channel 12 to 3 Eastern for free

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Length: 26min 13sec (1573 seconds)

Published: Sat Jul 22 2023