From now until the end of 2023, we're listening back to some stand-out interviews from this year. Timothy Olyphant is best known for portraying lawmen in cowboy hats. He reprises the role of U.S. marshal Raylan Givens in the eight-part sequel, Justified: City Primeval, based on Elmore Leonard's novel. He also played Sheriff Seth Bullock in Deadwood. He spoke with Dave Davies about the roles. Film critic Justin Chang reviews The Zone of Interest. Learn more about sponsor message choices: podcastchoices.com/adchoices NPR Privacy Policy
On the Ted Radio hour, linguist Ann Curzan says she gets a lot of.
Complaints about people using the pronoun they.
To refer to one person.
I sometimes get into arguments with people where they will say to me, but it can't be singular.
And I will say, but it is.
The history behind words causing a lot of debate.
That's on the Ted radio hour from NPR.
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 Olyphant.
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 US Marshal Raelen Givens in the FX series Justified, which earned Olyphant a primetime 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, its funny.
And he played the tour manager of a rock band in the Amazon prime series Daisy Jones and the six.
In Justified, Olyphants 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 hes 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 Leonardo.
I spoke to Oliphant in July about the new series in which his character Givens, now in late middle age, finds himself in Detroit dueling with a sociopathic criminal in a distinctly urban setting.
Timothy Olyphant, welcome back to Fresh Air.