John Goodman adds some color (as per usual) as Roland Turner, a jazz musician Llewyn meets on the road who might be more obnoxious than he is; Garrett Hedlund makes a brief appearance as Turner's driver, cigarette un-sharing, beat -
poet Johnny Five; and F. Murray Abraham plays up the big whig (or as big as they get at this point)
Bud Grossman, a potential label representative Llewyn has been eyeing in Chicago, his possible ticket
for getting out of all of this mess.
For example, in one interaction between young George Sawle and his Cambridge crush, the
budding poet Cecil Valance, the two appear to be conventional school chums, but below the table they are engaged in a lusty tussle: