Variety’s Showrunners Sitdown: ‘Fargo’ Creator Noah Hawley on Casting Jon Hamm and Juno Temple, Portraying a Sympathetic ‘Sin Eater’ and an ‘Alien’ Update
variety.comKate Aurthur administrator Noah Hawley’s anthology series “Fargo” premiered on FX in 2014, and has proven to be an exceptional showcase for actors — as well as for Hawley to expand upon the ideas within Joel and Ethan Coen’s Oscar-nominated film of the same name.
In 1996’s “Fargo” movie, Jerry, a hapless Minnesotan car dealer played by William H. Macy, comes up with an ill-fated scheme to have real criminals fake kidnap his wife in order to bilk his father-in-law of money he desperately needs.
After it all goes wrong, and several people have died as a result, the investigating officer Marge Gunderson (Frances McDormand) muses about the wreckage, and says to one of the kidnappers: “And for what?
For a little bit of money?” It may have taken 18 years for Hawley’s “Fargo” to premiere, but with that line, a template was born.
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