Walton Goggins and Timothy Olphyant’s characters dug coal together, for crying out loud. They went through decades of life together, and the actors lived those moments for six seasons. It was an intense time, for sure, and especially with the high-pressure schedule of a Hollywood shoot, it’s hard to imagine having a smooth ride every moment of the gig.
Still, this duo occupies a soft spot in fans’ minds, so yes, there was a bit of an uproar when Goggins revealed that they “weren’t talking” by the end of the series and swoon in each other’s footsteps for every moment of the FX production. Fast forward to Olyphant — who had only with Goggins near the beach in Thailand (where both HBO’s and FX’s have been shooting) — having no inkling that this talk was afoot that, sure, “We’d get really frustrated with each other.” This would only be the case because Walton tended to tell the writers that Boyd Crowder “would never do that,” and that generated some finale fiction.
Everything was water under the holler, so to speak, but of course, this turned into a controversy because people love Raylan and Boyd and want everything to be alright. The public conversation has now been kicked back to Goggins, who seemed “perplexed,” according : Said Goggins: “It’s so crazy. There is no feud.
” Pausing a few moments, he continued: “The ending of that show was hard emotionally, and people had different ways of dealing with it. It was a difficult goodbye and .