Titus Welliver Looks Back on "Deadwood"

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Titus Welliver read the pilot script for David Milch’s HBO Western, thought it was “amazing” and was briefly intrigued by the Sol Star role, but “there wasn’t really anything in it for me,” he says.

Milch eventually fixed that by adding Silas Adams, the bag man from Yankton whom Welliver wound up naming. “David said to me, ‘I haven’t come up with a name for this character. Do you have any ideas?’ And I said, ‘You remember my brother passed away a couple of years ago, and this is a show he would’ve loved. I’d like to name him Silas, after my older, dearly departed brother.’ And he said, ‘That’s great. It’s a Biblical name. It’s a great name. It’s perfect.'”

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