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Guest Introduction: Champagne, Chips, and Welcome to Timothy Olyphant
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Will Arnett delivers a properly reverent introduction, ticking through Olyphant's multi-Emmy-nominated career: the landmark westerns Justified and Deadwood, the recent FX hit Alien: Earth (the Noah Hawley vehicle), Apple TV+'s Stick, and the upcoming crime thriller Lucky with Anya Taylor-Joy and Annette Bening. Before Olyphant appears, Jason Bateman sneaks in his own arrest origin story — a leopard outfit, Monaco, cheap champagne, and a pocket full of casino chips. When Olyphant finally connects, he immediately launches into a story about offering Eric Roberts $20 to bump a cop on the Justified set — only for Roberts to calmly explain he had already hit a cop once, and it was 'not a good idea.' The opening salvo establishes Olyphant as exactly the kind of guest who matches the show's energy.
Eric Roberts told Timothy Olyphant on the set of Justified that he had been arrested a number of times in the double digits, qualifying that half were before he turned 18.
Jason Bateman was arrested in Monaco for drunk and disorderly conduct, dressed in a leopard outfit after a night at the casino fueled by cheap champagne.
Jason Bateman was arrested in Monaco for drunk and disorderly behavior after a casino night, wearing a leopard print outfit and fueled by cheap champagne. The arrest story is so vivid that Olyphant immediately declared it the title of Bateman's biography.
Olyphant asked for London over Bangkok for Alien: Earth Season 2 — then the moment he got it, complained he'd have to leave LA. This perfectly illustrates what he calls 'a complaint of actors': the universal dissatisfaction of a working actor with wherever they are.
