FX filled out most of the remaining roles for Fargo’s second season, picking Patrick Wilson to star. Ted Danson and Jean Smart also join a cast that already includes Kirsten Dunst and Jesse Plemons.
Wilson has been cast as the young Lou Solverson, a Minnesota State Patrolman who just came home from Vietnam, just to be faced with a major crime that involves the mob and a local gang. The story is set in 1979 Sioux Falls and is the same case mentioned by an older Lou (played by Keith Carradine) in the first season of Fargo.
According to TheWrap, Danson has been cast as Hank Larsson, a WWII vet and the sheriff of Rock County. He is also Lou’s father-in-law. Smart is the matriarch of the Gerhardt crime family.
Parks and Recreation’s Nick Offerman is also joining the cast, along with Bokeem Woodbine, Jeffrey Donovan, Angus Sampson and Kieran Culkin.
Dunst and Plemons joined the show last month.
Fargo season two will premiere later this year and will again be written by Noah Hawley.
“The scope of the storytelling this season is a lot bigger—thematically, on a character level, and story-wise,” Hawley told Entertainment Weekly this week. “It has more of an epic feel to it. That’s exciting. Within that expansion, we’re still holding onto that Fargo tone.”
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