Walton Goggins Stole Scenes in Tarantino’s Django Unchained

For more than two decades Walton Goggins has been a consistently strong presence on screen, moving from television standouts like The Shield and Justified into film. In the 2010s he used a couple of modern Westerns to raise his profile further. In 2012 Goggins had a small supporting turn in Quentin Tarantino's Django Unchained, joining a cast that included Jamie Foxx, Christoph Waltz and Leonardo DiCaprio.

Playing Billy Crash, an overseer at the slave plantation owned by Calvin Candy (DiCaprio), he’s on-screen for about eight-and-a-half minutes — roughly 5% of the film — yet still leaves a strong impression. His exchange with Foxx's Django on the way to Candyland, when Billy Crash snarls "Oh, I'm gonna go walkin' in the moonlight with you," and Django replies "You wanna hold my hand?", blends menace and dark humor and helps set the stage for the film's final chapter.

Goggins won the role after reading the script and calling in a favor with director Robert Rodriguez; Tarantino was already a fan and they moved forward with the casting.

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