I’ve added 9 photos of Walton attending the Critics’ Choice Television Awards which took place earlier today. Sadly, Walton did not win best supporting actor but to be nominated alone means a lot!

EDIT: I added 13 additional photos to the album.
Gallery Link:
- 2011 > 06/20/11 – Critics’ Choice Television Awards

The Hollywood Reporter: Your six-year run on FX’s The Shield ended in 2008. Did that help you get the Boyd Crowder role on Justified?

Walton Goggins: They came to me initially for one episode. Then, when the relationship between Boyd and Raylan Givens [Timothy Olyphant] was as dynamic as we’d hoped it would be, people wanted to see more. But when they talked about me joining the show in earnest, it was actually a really hard decision, quite honestly. I didn’t want in any way to stain the reputation of my Shield character. It’s a lot to ask someone to watch you on TV every single week, you know? But I felt like I really could contribute to this story, so with the second episode, I said to [Justified showrunner] Graham Yost, “I’m interested in setting up a dynamic where the person you thought you knew in episode one no longer exists in episode two.” I’m heavily involved with the story of Boyd Crowder and the way he sees the world. I’ve been invited to sit at that table in a real way, and I think that has a lot to do with my film background.

THR: So, is Boyd a good guy or a bad guy?

Goggins: Honestly, I try not to make that distinction too much and rather infuse the moments where Boyd does bad things with a morality. The audience may not agree with him, but at least they can understand him, and hopefully that generates an insane amount of sympathy. And the thing about Boyd, it’s gone beyond like, “I’m rooting for a bad guy,” to, “I just want to see what the f– this guy will do next.” You’re no longer rooting for a bad guy, you’re just watching — hopefully — the behavior. Then there are moments in the season-two finale where you saw Raylan, a United States marshal, essentially sanctioning the murder of another human being. While Boyd may seem on paper to be the antithesis of Raylan, he’s not. They’re two sides of the same coin.

THR: You’re from Georgia, and the show is set in Kentucky. Did you work with a dialect coach to make Boyd’s accent sound particular to that region?

Goggins: No, we actually don’t have dialogue coaches. I think because I come from the South, I understand the different cadences, and they vary wildly from Tennessee to Kentucky to Georgia to Alabama to Mississippi and all the way down the road. But Boyd is really an amalgamation of all of them, yet he’s none of them. His accent came out of the self-taught person he is; he isn’t influenced by things outside of his environment. It was only through his self-education that he started to form his love of words and his way of speaking. It really comes from his curiosity about things and about literature and life in general and a deep wanting and understanding of the world, and he hasn’t been able to access it other than through books. I think that has influenced the way that he speaks. He’s kind of from everywhere.

It’s the Ram truck counterpart to Chrysler’s Eminem commercial. The one-minute ad ties in Ram trucks with the “Code of the West”. If you’re an honorable cowboy, you should be driving a Ram.

Apparently bad guys drive Ford F-150s, including what appears to be a brief cameo by actor Walton Goggins, aka Detective Shane Vendrell from “The Shield.”

I’m very happy to say that the site has been online an entire year! I could not be more proud of the success the site has had the past year, all thanks to Justified’s popularity along with you very loyal visitors who check the site (sometimes even daily). I couldn’t have done it without you guys, there honestly would be hardly any fun in it at all. Being able to share each post with you guys is a different kind of enjoyment I think many webmasters can agree on. I also want to say thank you to Walton for being so humble and supportive. It really means so much to have your support while running the site.

I’m very thankful for all the success the site has had, and the lovely new people I have met because of the site and our shared interests. Here’s to another year!

For Walton Goggins, who plays Boyd Crowder on “Justified,” the show’s Southern setting and rich language from Elmore Leonard make him proud. The Alabama native says foremost in mind in joining the series was not to perpetuate any stereotypes of Southerners. And as for creating Crowder, well, Goggins says, the outlaw didn’t have to be the smartest man in the room, he just needed to be on par with the smartest man in the room. Here’s a clip from Monday night’s Emmy Week conversation with the cast of “Justified.” Check back later for more excerpts.

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I’ve had the pleasure of adding 3 high quality scans of Walton from the most recent issue of Emmy Magazine featuring the talented cast of CBS’ hit show ‘Hawaii 5-O’ on the cover.

I’d like to thank WG for the scans.

Gallery Link:
- Magazines / Publications > Emmy Magazine Issue No. 3, 2011

Ah! I am so excited for them to finally get nominated! Hopefully the Emmy nominations will follow in CCT’s footsteps. Congratulations Walton!

In what hopefully will turn out to be a harbinger of the 2011 Emmys, the nominations for the inaugural Critics’ Choice Television Awards were announced this morning, and a handful of acclaimed yet heretofore kudos-deprived series were at last singled out.

The first CCT Awards, are scheduled to be handed out on June 20 in Los Angeles and will air two days later on ReelzChannel at 8/7c. Additionally, the ceremony will be live streamed on VH1.com.
BEST DRAMA SERIES
Justified

BEST ACTOR IN A DRAMA SERIES
Timothy Olyphant (Justified)

BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR IN A DRAMA SERIES
Walton Goggins (Justified)

BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS IN A DRAMA SERIES
Margo Martindale (Justified)

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