Plenty of actors are capable of stealing a scene—Walton Goggins will convince you it belonged to him the whole time. He has one of those faces you never want to take your eyes off. It’s unpredictable; you never know what it might unleash next: malice, tenderness, a smile with those teeth that don’t look quite suited to a human mouth. It’s a good face for a villain, like racist cop Shane Vendrell on The Shield, the role that first brought Goggins television acclaim. It’s an even better face for an antihero. That’s probably why producers decided to turn what was meant to be a one-episode appearance in the pilot of FX’s Justified into a starring, Emmy-nominated turn as Harlan County, Kentucky’s most lovable career criminal, Boyd Crowder.
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