FX new Coen Brothers' inspired TV series of the same name Fargo may have tried to stay true to the feel of the original movie, but the legendary directing duo really didn't have any direct involvement in creating the new show. According to showrunner Noah Hawley that makes the thumbs up form Ethan Coen all the more special. After years of being type-cast following his big break in The Office Martin Freeman, best known form now on as Bilbo Baggins in Peter Jackson's Hobbit franchise, says he was dying to reenact a rape or a string of serial murders. Sling Blade mastermind Billy Bob Thornton took the role as the seriously scary Lorne Malvo because the job would only be for one season and he had recently quit the directing business altogether. Talk about a motley crew.
British actor Martin Freeman is mesmerizing in her role as emotional enigmatic wife killer Lester Nygaard in FX new hit critically acclaimed series Fargo.
In an interview with the Guardian Martin lamented that even though he was very proud of his role in the UK's original Office, he also felt very trapped by it at time:
"I'm under no illusion about what I appear like.
"I just know there's more to me than that as a person, and there's certainly more to me than that as an actor.
"That's where the frustration comes. My plan was always to be an actor...It wasn't to be a nice guy.
"I became famous in Britain playing a nice decent guy and that casts a long shadow."
Martin told TV Guide that he longed for a seedier role to set the malevolent sprits inside him free on celluloid once again:
"I've said to my agents for ages in a kind of lighthearted way that I think I need to play a serial killer, a f---ing rapist, drug dealer, whatever.
"It's in everybody. We all have those moments where you do want to throw someone out of a window."
Showrunner, creator and headwriter Noah Hawley says that although all the credit for the series should really be entirely his, getting the proverbial pat on the back form Ethan Coen wasn't bad (via Hollywood Reporter):
"[The Coen Brothers] read the first script, liked it, suggested a few lines and jokes, but that was the sum total of their creative involvement.
"When we showed them the first episode, Ethan said, 'Yeah, good,' which I've since learned is a rave review."
Is Noah Hawley trying to suggest that Ethan and Hoel Coen have virtually mastered the art or making movies with masterpieces in almost every genre of the medium, but somehow lack the skill set to produce an Everybody Love's Raymond or Who's the Boss?
What a D-bag.
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