OK, then: It’s time for a third amusing, unpredictable, tragic and disturbing season of F's Emmy-winning Fargo (April 19, 10 ET/PT).
Noah Haley has created a more emotional hybrid, blending the more intimate, smaller setting of the first saga, which starred Billy Bob Thornton as a malevolent disrupted, and (in later episodes) the epic scale of the second, which featured a bigger body count and a sprawling cast of characters as it went back to 1979. This time around, Wan Gregorio turns in a bravura performance as feuding siblings Emit Status, the well-off “parking lot king of Minnesota,” and his slightly younger brother Ray, a down-on-his-luck parole officer in 2010 Minnesota.
Their beef? An inheritance from their long-dead father, who bequeathed Emit a valuable postage stamp, but left Ray a beat-up red Corvette. Ray’s attempt to steal the stamp back sets the story in motion, creating the usual complications and unintended consequences.
“There’s definitely a sense of the haves and have-nots that are at the center of this,” Harley says. And like the 1996 Coen brothers movie that inspired it, “at its core I always feel like Fargo is about what people will do for money. There’s a brother who feels like he got gypped, and he’s had a poorer life because of it, and a brother who feels he’s a self-made man, and became a millionaire, but he’s really not as self-made as he might think.”
While Emmit’s life is complicated by his ties to a shadowy figure (David Thewlis, with bad teeth) who’d loaned him money, Ray is the instigator. But both are being egged on in their long-simmering feud: Emmit, by his consigliere Sy Feltz (Michael Stuhlbarg), and Ray by his girlfriend, parolee and bridge partner Nikki Swango (Mary Elizabeth Winstead).
“They’ve both got this outside force pushing them into their problem, into their grievance with each other. But in actual fact, both of them very often defend the other brother to those people,” McGregor says.
The Scottish actor (Trainspotting, Beauty and the Beast), 46, disappears into both characters. He shaved his head before shooting began last January, so Emmit has dark curly hair, brown contact lenses and a healthy glow, while Ray is balding, pasty and heavier, with stringy hair but McGregor’s blue eyes. (He gained weight to play Ray but wore Spanx for Emmit).
Noah Haley has created a more emotional hybrid, blending the more intimate, smaller setting of the first saga, which starred Billy Bob Thornton as a malevolent disrupted, and (in later episodes) the epic scale of the second, which featured a bigger body count and a sprawling cast of characters as it went back to 1979. This time around, Wan Gregorio turns in a bravura performance as feuding siblings Emit Status, the well-off “parking lot king of Minnesota,” and his slightly younger brother Ray, a down-on-his-luck parole officer in 2010 Minnesota.
Their beef? An inheritance from their long-dead father, who bequeathed Emit a valuable postage stamp, but left Ray a beat-up red Corvette. Ray’s attempt to steal the stamp back sets the story in motion, creating the usual complications and unintended consequences.
“There’s definitely a sense of the haves and have-nots that are at the center of this,” Harley says. And like the 1996 Coen brothers movie that inspired it, “at its core I always feel like Fargo is about what people will do for money. There’s a brother who feels like he got gypped, and he’s had a poorer life because of it, and a brother who feels he’s a self-made man, and became a millionaire, but he’s really not as self-made as he might think.”
While Emmit’s life is complicated by his ties to a shadowy figure (David Thewlis, with bad teeth) who’d loaned him money, Ray is the instigator. But both are being egged on in their long-simmering feud: Emmit, by his consigliere Sy Feltz (Michael Stuhlbarg), and Ray by his girlfriend, parolee and bridge partner Nikki Swango (Mary Elizabeth Winstead).
“They’ve both got this outside force pushing them into their problem, into their grievance with each other. But in actual fact, both of them very often defend the other brother to those people,” McGregor says.
The Scottish actor (Trainspotting, Beauty and the Beast), 46, disappears into both characters. He shaved his head before shooting began last January, so Emmit has dark curly hair, brown contact lenses and a healthy glow, while Ray is balding, pasty and heavier, with stringy hair but McGregor’s blue eyes. (He gained weight to play Ray but wore Spanx for Emmit).
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