Stranger Things Star Joe Keery Joins Fargo Season 5 Cast
When the first season of Stranger Things hit, nobody knew quite what to make of the character of Steve Harrington, played by Joe Keery. Based on all audience expectations of ‘80s movies, the big-haired jock boyfriend of the lead girl should turn out to be a bullying jerk, but he wasn’t. If Stranger Things was like Pretty in Pink, Keery was playing the Andrew McCarthy role, not the James Spader.
During the course of the show, Keery has fought monsters, gotten beat up in every season, and been an able and shining member of an eccentric and large cast of characters making up the beleaguered citizenry of Hawkins, Indiana. His ability to shine in a cast made up of such varied actors means it’s all the more fitting that Keery is getting to expand his filmography, as Variety reports that he is joining the ensemble anthology crime series Fargo, now entering its fifth season, on FX, even as Stranger Things begins its fifth.
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As Stranger Things went on, Keery grew even more integral to the show, making up the heart of it as he would act as big brother and protector of all the other kids in the ensemble, always doing what was right when the crisis hit (usually with some sort of spiked baseball bat in hand). His friendship with Dustin Henderson (Gaten Matazarro) took on special significance, and his new friendship with Robin Buckley (Maya Hawke) has proven equally fun during the series’ run.
Fargo, the smash crime anthology series on FX is an actor’s paradise, a place to shine even amongst the all-timers that inevitably make up each season’s ensemble. The current season already has a trio of heavy hitters including Jon Hamm (Mad Men), Jennifer
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