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Variety’s Showrunners Sitdown: ‘Fargo’ Creator Noah Hawley on Casting Jon Hamm and Juno Temple, Portraying a Sympathetic ‘Sin Eater’ and an ‘Alien’ Update

'Fargo' creator Noah Hawley on the show's fifth season—from its similiarities to the Coen Brothers' movie to creating Ole Munch, the sin-eating hero.

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. Roy’s obsessive hunt for Dot continues throughout the season, but she’s aided along the way by Witt Farr (Lamorne Morris), a state trooper from North Dakota; Indira Olmstead (Richa Moorjani), a Scandia deputy; and eventually her formidable mother-in-law, Lorraine Lyon (Jennifer Jason Leigh), a billionaire who’s made her money off of debt. In one of the season’s centerpiece scenes, after Lorraine creates a humiliating experience for Roy at his debate for reelection, he returns to the ranch where he’s holding Dot, whom he’s kidnapped, and walks to his barn in one long tracking shot as a “Toxic” cover plays.

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