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Two different roles in Deadwood


I was just watching the Deadwood DVD box set and I see Garret first as the ugly scumbag who kills Wild Bill Hickcok only too return in season number to to play a very well to do polished frontman for George Hearst...
I've never really seen them turn a carachter that fast in a major premium channel series..
My point is I think that says something about the incredible talent as an actor this guy is...
Brilliant and so diverse

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I just knew about it minutes ago on a website and have to go here to check. I didn't notice that at all. What the hell.

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This really confused me for awhile. He was on as one character, a hated one, then came back and no one knew who he was. Took me a minute to figure out he was playing a totally different person. Kind of a strange casting choice since he played a short but major character the first time around. I could see doing this if he was more of an unnoticed character the first time.

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yeah I thought that was odd too.that was very aware of it.built Milch had said once in response.to this that he doesn't like looking for new actors.

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Thanks for posting this... It threw me for a loop thinking wait just a durn minute... That there is the fella that shot Wild Bill Hickock! Is he a zombie... Please no zombies in Deadwood... Thank goodness they were just completing this man's contract ( or whatever reason) by giving him another character!

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Literally watching the very first scene with his 2nd character and I was so confused so I jumped onto IMDB. Maybe if you watched the show live as it aired you might not remember but I'm binge watching on hbogo.com and definitely noticed. I love this actor so I definitely noticed.

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It took me until the second watching of the series to figure it out!

I thought the voice was similar but didn't think anything of it until I looked at the actor's page and realized it...

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Same, but I'm watching it on Amazon prime. Also helps that I now know the actor from many, many other things he's been in the last decade (Garrett being a great "Oh it's that guy" character actor btw).

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that's it. I just started the last season of Justified and he's in it. I was thinking it was the third different character he has done on the same show. But nope, it was Deadwood.

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