FX Network have a real audience pleaser on their hands in critically acclaimed TV series inspired by the Coen Brothers' cult movie classic of the same name, Fargo. Though the script is clearly phenomenal, the impressive tone of the television show is set as much by the amazing cast as it is writing or direction. In addition to having alternative comedy trend setter Bob Odenkirk play small minded, small town sheriff Bill Oswalt, showrunner Noah Hawley has renowned comic team Keagen-Michael Key and Jordan Peele, better known simply as Comedy Central's Key and Peele, playing FBI G-men, Special Agents Budge and Peeper. Peter Jackson Bilbo Baggins Hobbit, Martin Freeman certainly surprises viewers as emotional conflicted wife slayer Lester Nygaard. Spoilers: the Office alum always knew he would be believable as a real-villain; he's been pleading with his agents to get him to role of a mass killer or rapist for years. Grumpy Billy Bob Thornton's inner contempt can be seem in the eyes of Lorne Malvo; the Sling Blade visionary claims to have retired from directing major motion pictures, due to a lack of interest in his latest projects.
Martin Freeman claims to have a dark force in him that needed to be let free on camera, and now he seemingly has in his role as matricidal insurance salesman, Lester Nygaard on FX brand new series, Fargo.
Martin told TV Guide that he always knew he had a serial rapist in there just absolutely desperate to claw its way out:
"Before The Office, I was a young actor in London who casting agents... saw as kind of edgy. I would be going up for those parts that were a bit violent or a bit scuzzy.
"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 not that I'm a serial killer or anything...But it's in everybody. We all have those moments where you do want to throw someone out of a window."
Jordan Peele of the comedy team Key and Peele told HitFix that they agreed to do the project because Noah Hawley didn't want them to be funny:
"I think if it was any more comedic we would have been resistant against the doing it.
"My biggest fear is that all of us sudden we're in Fargo and we're going for a different style of laughter and people who have come to appreciate this show that has a lot of integrity, both comedic and dramatic, are just taken out of the world."
"I think I'm obsolete as a film director. I don't think there's a place for me as a film director--or a writer.
"I can't see myself being a television director unless it's for a two-hour movie. Like if I did an HBO or FX or whatever it is, movie. That I would do."
Watch Fargo Tuesday nights at 10 p.m. on FX.
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