If you havent watched this weeks episode ofJustified, stop reading now.
As hell do throughout the season, showrunner Graham Yost takes us inside the writers room.
ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY: What of the story is from Elmores novel?
Credit: Prashant Gupta/FX
GRAHAM YOST:Jackie Nevada was a character in that book.
Weve talked before about Raylans weakness for pretty women, with Lindsey.
Jackie gave him a nice chance to address that.
So its been a target for quite some time.
Any chance of seeing Jackie again?
I dont know, maybe.
Well see what the audience says.
We just honestly want the audience to be wondering and have a question.
We filmed stuff of Raylan getting in the shower with her.
And maybe it will end up on the DVD extras.
That was the choice we made.
So to be clear: He did not get in the shower with her offscreen.
Well, did he?
Thats up to you.
Thats a fair choice.
The Jody and Kenneth (Mad Mens Michael Gladis) stuff was fun.
Thats also in the book.
This is where it gets confusing, okay: In the book, it was Delroy and Kenneth.
That was William Mapother.
So we couldnt use the character name Delroy again, so we came up with Jody.
They were just this duo.
Was the film Jody made for Raylan in the book?
The credits killed me: Produced and directed by Kenneth, Conceived and Written by Jody.
Yes, thats totally in the book.
FX was unsure about the credits.
(Laughs) It didnt really make a lot of sense, but we thought it was funny.
Jody riding away on top of Kenneths car before that was also a great visual.
That was something I came up with.
We wanted to have Jody get progressively more injured over the course of the episode.
Just the idea of Kenneth driving away with Jody on top sounded really funny.
I find it fascinating/odd that Jody didnt think Raylan would shoot him.
These criminals are not the smartest.
I dont know what theyre thinking.
You dont go up against Raylan, but they do.
Side note: I feel like ahole is the word of the season.
This episode Raylan used it to describe Jody (Hes armed, and dangerous… and an ahole).
You know, its FX, were allowed to say it.
(Laughs) I was pushing for some kind of handjob line from early on.
And Napier saying, Youre about as welcome as a case of the clap to Boyd?
(Laughs) Thats just Provenzano.
Hes a very, very funny writer.
Were you happy with the way the swingers party turned out?
There was just so much menace from these rich people.
I thought it was wonderful.
That [scheme] was just something that came out of the room.
Its something that rich people could conspire to do in a place like this to make money.
It just drove Walton crazy.
He just wanted to pull and kill them all.
It was a difficult scene.
The other actors were thinking, Did we say something to upset him?
And its like, No.
Waltons just identifying with Boyd.
Lets talk about Raylan going to see Arlo.
Doing that then suggested where we could go with Episode 8.
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