If you’re anxiously waiting the final season of the one of the best television dramas in recent memory, it’s only going to get worse. FX has cast Sam Elliott (THE BIG LEBOWKSI, TOMBSTONE) and Garret Dillahunt (Raising Hope, Deadwood) in recurring roles on the show which enters its sixth and final season in January 2015. That gives you a lot of time to get your binge watch on and become one of the privileged people who can talk about the show and every badass moment that comes along with it.
Sam Elliott will portray Markham:
…a legendary Kentucky gangster who returns from exile with a private army and bags of cash (earned growing legal weed in Colorado), hell-bent on winning back his empire and the lost love of his life, Katherine Hale (Mary Steenburgen). He'll find himself butting heads with Raylan and Boyd and even with Katherine herself, who secretly believes that Markham is the rat who brought down her husband.
Garret Dillahunt will play Walker:
…a spec ops veteran who's spent much of the last decade deployed in combat zones, first as a soldier and most recently as a private contractor. He now handles security for a quasi-legal businessman, a job to which he brings all of the skills (as well as the demons) he acquired during his military career. Walker hides his simmering rage behind an exterior of cold professionalism — until the combined irritants of Raylan and Boyd wear away his veneer and bring the monster to the surface.
Sam Elliott should have been on this show from the beginning if you ask me, but I guess better late than never. I’m already there so this is just an added bonus! The show’s star, Timothy Olyphant, is one charming dude I must admit. Here’s a great interview as evidence: