Regardless of whether or not Fargo takes home any awards at the Golden Globes tonight, the fans of FX' new hit TV show -- based on the Coen Brothers cult classic of the same name -- has any even more impressive ensemble cast in Season 2. According to the latest casting news updates, Patrick Wilson, Ted Danson and even Nick Offerman of Parks and Recreation fame will be joining the series in 2015. Allison Tolman, who played Molly in Season 1, recently admitted that during shooting she tried to convince showrunner Noah Hawley that if her character didn't get to kill Billy Bob Thornton in the finale, that women hate the show.
There are a prenty of new high-profile names being attached to Season 2 of Fargo, which stared both Martin Freeman and Billy Bob Thornton in its original run, but none stick out as much as Nick Offerman's -- the mustachioed funny man from the Amy Poehler helmed Parks and Recreation.
Mild mannered Offerman told Entertainment Weekly that even though the show is ostensibly about warring crime families, he isn't going to be playing any of the cut throats:
"I don't get to shoot anybody in the face but I love the writing on that show."
"It's a terrific show for actors and when I saw the first season I said, 'Boy, if they would ever have me, I'd love to recite some of that Minnesota dialogue,' and sure enough that's what I'll be doing."
Patrick Wilson has also joined that cast a the younger version of Lou Solverson, who was played by Keith Carradine in Season 1, along with Ted Danson as the small town's sheriff and father-in-law to Lou.
Allison Tolman, who played the Carradine's daughter last year, of course, won't be joining the cast in Season 2, which is a real shame because Molly is still looking to settle the score with Lorne Malvo.
In a recent interview with Time, she explained that she did her best during filming to convince showrunner Noah Hawley that having Colin Hanks shoot Billy Bob Thornton in her place was going to be a blow to women everywhere:
"I was certainly bummed out about it.
"And I met with [showrunner] Noah Hawley, and I was like, "Noah, I'm worried that women are going to hate this ending, that women are going to be like, 'What the hell? How could you do that?'
"By the end, I realized that me wanting to have a shoot-em-up fight with Billy was my ego as an actress, and I couldn't pass that off as concern for my character because my character would not care at all."
Now...if we could only get that Raising Arizona TV spinoff.
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