Welcome to Random Roles , wherein we talk to actors about the characters who defined their careers. The catch: They don’t know beforehand what roles we’ll ask them to talk about. The actor: Don Johnson spent a number of years bouncing between TV and film, getting regular work without ever managing to pull a career-making role, but all that changed after he was cast as Sonny Crockett in Miami Vice. Johnson subsequently found additional small-screen success as the title character in Nash Bridges, but most of his work in recent years has been in film, including a memorable turn in Quentin Tarantino’s Django Unchained. Currently, Johnson can be seen in a supporting role in Cold In July, now in theaters and on VOD. Advertisement Cold In July (2014)—“Jim Bob” Don Johnson: Jim Mickle [the director] sent me the script, or his casting people did. Somehow the script got into my hands, and I read it, and I was taken by how it had different … [Read more...] about Don Johnson on