Timothy Olyphant Details Shooting On Set Of ‘Justified: City Primeval’: “It Was The Scariest Goddamn Thing. It Went On Forever”

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For the first time since the incident occurred, Timothy Olyphant shared in great detail what it was like to experience the shooting on the set of FX’s Justified: City Primeval last summer in Chicago.

While recently guesting on the Conan O’ Brien Needs A Friend podcast, Olyphant described the fateful night when three cars smashed through the show’s barricades near the city’s Douglass Park and shot off what he believed were at least 100 rounds. “It was the scariest goddamn thing,” Olyphant recalled. “It went on forever.” The cast and crew of the limited series were accustomed to hearing gunshots, having already filmed in “bad neighborhoods” of Chicago, Olyphant told O’Brien.

But this time, the stakes were much higher because trouble was heading right for them. “You realize they’re coming around the park,” Olyphant said of the late night incident. “If the gunshots didn’t already give you a tip about what kind of people we are dealing with, they completely ignored the road closed sign where it says filming, don’t come this way.” While most of the crew dove for cover, Olyphant said he managed to get a peek at the shooters in the second car.

One leaned out a window with a pistol that had “clearly been modified” while the other stood up in the sun roof and fired a machine gun, Olyphant recalled. “It was so frightening,” Olyphant said. “I assumed one was going to hit me.