In adapting Longmire from the Craig Johnson novels to a television series, showrunners inevitably took liberties. Nonetheless, actor Lou Diamond Phillips maintains that the extra details in the novels help him in the portrayal of Henry on the show.

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On Twitter Saturday fans got into as lively discussion about whether Walt (Robert Taylor) and Henry are old enough to have served in Vietnam.

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Phillips chimed in, and others agreed, that the book series does in fact feature Vietnam flashbacks which writers had never been able to work into the television series.

Even without the flashbacks on the series, Phillips insisted that the extra details in the novels have helped to "inform" his portrayal of the character on the crime drama and thanked Johnson for his thoroughness as a storyteller.

The television series debuted on A&E in 2012 and ran for three seasons before the network elected to drop the program earlier this year. The show was picked up in December by Netflix and production for the new episodes is set to start in March.

Longmire will likely return on Netflix for a fourth season in the summer of 2015.

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