There are a lot of stories about television characters whose roles grew because of the performance of the actor, the needs of the overall story, or both.
Steve Harrington, Joe Keery’s character on “Stranger Things,” for example, was originally supposed to die in season 1.
Aaron Paul’s award-winning portrayal of Jesse Pinkman on “Breaking Bad” was initially intended to receive a similar fate.
And Walton Goggins’ Boyd Crowder, the scenery-chewing frenemy of Raylan Givens on “Justified,” wasn’t even supposed to make it past the pilot, where Timothy Olyphant’s U.S.
Marshal was initially supposed to shoot him down for good.The “Justified” pilot does culminate with Raylan shooting his old friend (they dug coal together!), but Boyd’s ultimate fate is left up in the air.
But like Keery with Steve, and Paul with Jesse, Goggins was just so good and charismatic in the role that the show’s creators
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