Timothy Olyphant is the talk of the town on television once again as people watch Justified: City Primeval. It's strange to imagine a world where the actor wasn't the face of the Justified franchise, but that was almost a reality thanks to J.J. Abrams' Star Trek movies. Olyphant recently talked about nearly scoring the role of Captain Kirk, but ultimately losing the gig to an up-and-coming actor named Chris Pine.
The actor was a guest on Josh Horowitz's Happy Sad Confused podcast and was asked about the time he auditioned for a role in Star Trek. Horowitz assumed that, given the actor's roles, he was in the running for Kirk right off the bat, but that was not the case. Timothy Olyphant recalled the story during the podcast and how he ended up losing his chance at playing Kirk to Chris Pine:
