Joelle Carter likes to keep Ava Crowder mysterious

The American crime drama series, ‘Justified’ began to air on AXN in January. Developed by Graham Yost, the show is based on Elmore Leonard's short story "Fire in the Hole". Justified received critical acclaim throughout all six seasons, particularly for its acting, directing, art direction, writing, and Olyphant's and Walton Goggins' performances.

Justified was nominated for eight Primetime Emmy Awards, with two wins, for Margo Martindale's performance as Mags Bennett and Jeremy Davies' performance as Dickie Bennet. The show airs every Monday to Friday at 11pm. In an interaction, Joelle Carter, who plays Ava Crowder speaks about her character and its relationships on the show. Excerpts.

The character Ava has such a complex relationship with both Raylan and Boyd. Do you find it difficult to keep all of those relationships boiling under the surface? Oh, I find it challenging and exciting. It's wonderful when they write for you such complex situations because it is a challenge, but it's thrilling. It's great.

How do you actually feel about Boyd? Do you want him with her, or do you just put up with him?
I think where we left off, the last episode when he offers the money to her, right? And then the cost of coming in it’s interesting. I think its Ava and Boyd. She has a big heart and she really loves the idea that everyone can change and in the beginning I think she wanted to take a chance on that with Boyd, and I believe as its progressing, they're kind of falling for each other a little bit and she wants to help him out because of these feelings she's having and then he brings this in again, yet another complicated issue. But, I think that for Ava, she had this long, long relationship with Boyd and I believe he's kind of always been in love with her and she really finds him interesting and she sees him exciting and we'll see what happens!

What is it like working with Walton and do you think she was smart to sort of let Boyd move in?
Working with Walton is such a wonderful experience. He's a dynamic actor and you never worry that there won't be something on the other side of the table coming at you. So, it's really exciting and it’s an honor. I think in the end Ava had to do what she had to do to survive and to have Boyd living with her it’s help ends meet and it's kind of opened her up to really discovering who she is a little bit more. So, I think it was a good idea.

We've seen your character go from the slightly frantic, first time we ever meet Ava, to this strong put-together woman over the season one. How do you feel her character is going to grow through season two? I she's still trying to figure it all out as we all are usually. But, she definitely has developed and come a long way since season one which is nice.

When we heard of the show, it was an Elmore Leonard series which immediately creates a visual image and a tone, you hear about the star, you see the name, you see the ads and you think this is going to be a testosterone test, a boy's show, and it is.

It has all of those things, but it surprisingly has managed to paint rather nice intricate portraits of the female characters and we kind of want to get what's it like being in the epicenter of that 'man storm'?
Yes, it is! It's a lot of testosterone. There's a lot of manly stuff out there beneath. I think it's a challenge as it is and it is business. It's a very male dominated business, so it's kind of a real life challenge that's come into play in the working world. I think that the writers and all of us have developed some really strong female characters that complement the male testosterone that we're living in.

That's what makes it exciting, because we are the sauce, you know, the sensitive part to their lives, but you don't mess with them and you see them stick up for themselves and you see them call the shots. I think do us justice.