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This is fresh air. I'm Dave Davies. Today we begin a series featuring some of our

favorite interviews from

2023 and we start with actor Timothy Olafant. He's performed in dozens of

roles in film, television and theater. He's best known for playing two iconic lawmen,

Sheriff Seth Bullock in the HBO series Deadwood

and a subsequent film,

and Deputy U.S. Marshal Rayland Givens in the FX series justified,

which earned Olafint a prime time Emmy nomination.

Among his many other roles,

he starred with Drew Barrymore as the husband of a realtor slash man-eating zombie in the Netflix

comedy series Santa Clarita Diet. Trust me, it's funny. And he played the tour manager of a rock band

in the Amazon Prime series Daisy Jones and the six.

In justified elephant's character, Deputy Marshall Givens,

is reassigned to his native Eastern Kentucky, where he chases a bunch of colorful

criminals for six seasons, some of whom he's known since childhood. That franchise

was revived in the new FX series Justified City Primeval, which like the original is based on the books

of Elmore Leonard.

I spoke to Olafant in July about the new series, in which his character Givens, now in

...