Why Ewan McGregor Thought He’d Ruined Fargo Season 3 On Day 1
Ewan McGregor explains why he thought he may have ruined Fargo season 3 on his very first day of shooting. FX’s Fargo has attracted a lot of big-name acting talent during its four-season run. But McGregor arguably still stands as the biggest star ever to grace the show’s always-acclaimed cast.
It wasn’t enough of course for Star Wars prequel star McGregor to play just a single character when he arrived for Fargo season 3. So the actor took on the always-daunting challenge of playing two characters: Emmit and Ray Stussy, a pair of non-twin brothers whose lives (and hairlines) have gone in very different directions. As if that weren’t enough already, Fargo season 3 also set McGregor up with the task of giving each Stussy Brother a convincing Minnesota accent. Unfortunately many criticized McGregor for falling short when it came to mastering the tricky accent made famous by the Coen Brothers’ original Fargo movie and its Oscar-winning star Frances McDormand.
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It actually turns out that McGregor himself wasn’t initially sure about his own Minnesota accent when he began work on Fargo season 3. Speaking to British GQ, the actor discussed the difficulties of nailing the accent and talked about how disappointed he felt with his work after his first day of shooting as Emmit Stussy. He said:
It's a very, very difficult accent to get as a British person, cause it's got so much Irish in it, and you can just find yourself doing a sort of bad Irish accent, which is unforgivable. So I worked with my dialect coach, Liz Himelstein here, but she wasn't able to come with me, and I found that that was quite difficult, not having her on set. But I slowly got it. The first
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