After Olyphant's performance in "Go", the film's producer Mickey Liddell offered him his choice of parts in his next project "" (2000), a romantic comedy about a group of gay friends living in West Hollywood. "The Village Voice"s Dennis Lim commented that his leading performance was better than the film deserved: "Olyphant is charismatic enough for his worst lines not to stick." However, Mick LaSalle of the "San Francisco Chronicle" felt he played the part "like a straight actor gaying it up." Olyphant played a detective in the successful action film "Gone in 60 Seconds" (2000) and joked in an interview about the challenges of playing "second fiddle to a car"; his performance reminded the "Washington Post"s Stephen Hunter of a young Bill Paxton.