Boyd Holbrook is a rising Hollywood star. He has appeared in several promiscuous roles in both movies and television shows. Holbrook’s appearance in Logan as Donald Pierce, a bada*s villain on the hunt for Logan and his closest peers was a hell of a ride.
The actor also claimed a splendid spot with adequate screen time in the Netflix hit show The Sandman. The actor also has a few other remarkable roles to his credit including Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny. Perhaps, the master of violence on screen, Quentin Tarantino was impressed with Holbrook as he invited him over.
Quentin Tarantino’s Personal Invitation To Boyd Holbrook
Justified: City Primeval was well-received by fans and critics alike, which was based on Elmore Leonard’s crime novels, City Primeval and Fire in the Hole. The series stars Boyd Holbrook as Clement Mansell— a ruthless criminal known as ‘The Oklahoma Wildman’ and the character was certainly interesting.
Reportedly, Quentin Tarantino was initially involved in the project, and though he parted ways, it was his idea to cast the actor in the series. Interestingly, the FX series is not a spin-off of the 2010 original series Justified. “I think it’s not. It’s just a limited series,” Holbrook told Interview magazine.
“It’s taking that character Raylan Givens, who’s Elmore Leonard’s creation, and interfacing him in his most famous crime novel, City Primeval. Quentin Tarantino calls and says, ‘Hey, I want you to play the character Clement Mansel.’ And then Quentin couldn’t do it but I still stayed on. I loved every minute of it, man. It worked out the way it should have. I don’t know if you’ve ever seen that show. It’s f*cked up, but it’s funny. They’re great characters and amazing writing.”
Tarantino’s take on the series would have a different tone indeed. Also, he knew that Holbrook would be the perfect fit for the character he played in the show.
Quentin Tarantino Was Involved With Justified: City Primeval
The early and widely circulated news of Tarantino’s involvement in the show created quite a buzz as he was set to direct at least a few episodes of the show. However, speaking with The Hollywood Reporter, showrunner Michael Dinner clarified Tarantino’s involvement in the revival of the original show.
“To be really honest, our intention was never to involve him in it,” Dinner said of Tarantino. And then added, “As we got the room together and we got the green light, we were saying, “Well, if he really did whisper sweet nothings in Tim’s ear, maybe we should ask him, for fun, if he’d wanna do it.”
He further said,
“And so Dave and I actually sent him either the pilot or the first two episodes, and he loved it. He had a few thoughts, but it was just a few things. And then we slipped him the third and the fourth episodes, which he really loved. And so the intention was that he was gonna do an episode. We actually had moved some stuff from the fourth episode into the third episode, because he said, ‘Well, I really loved the top of [the fourth episode],’ and then we actually moved it back in [the fourth episode].”
However, Tarantino called off ahead of production. Dinner revealed,
“Probably about two weeks before he was supposed to start prep, he called up and said, ‘Look, I can’t do it for some private reasons.”
The showrunner had to scramble but said that Quentin was more of “a cheerleader than anything else.” He did help with his perspective for the show sharing a few notes.
Source: Interview, The Hollywood Reporter
