Fargo: Season 1 Cast Link

But Freeman, desperate to break typecasting, begged for the role of Lester Nygaard. He studied Midwestern manners until his natural British charm curdled into passive aggression. On set, between takes, he’d apologize to crew members for "being so horrible."

"Simple," Thornton said from the back of the room, wearing sunglasses indoors. "We all knew someone like Lester. Someone like Malvo. Someone like Molly. We just never saw them in a snowbank before." fargo: season 1 cast

Freeman looked at Tolman. Tolman looked at Odenkirk. Odenkirk laughed. But Freeman, desperate to break typecasting, begged for

Thornton, meanwhile, arrived each day in character as Lorne Malvo—refusing to speak to anyone except in low, rumbling riddles. He once whispered to a prop master, "The squirrel knows. Burn the acorns." No one was sure if he was joking. "We all knew someone like Lester

When Noah Hawley began casting Fargo 's first season, nobody expected it to work. A TV adaptation of the Coen brothers' beloved film? Starring Martin Freeman —the gentle, hapless Bilbo Baggins—as a cold-blooded killer? And Billy Bob Thornton as a philosophical, devilish drifter with a bowl cut?