All kinds of extras needed for third season of Fargo
Open casting call on Saturday for people of all ages and ethnicities
The third season of FX’s Fargo is set to start shooting in Calgary and area in January and casting directors are putting out a call for extras of all kinds.
Men and women of all ages and ethnicities are required for the shoot, which is expected to run until May. An open casting call will be held Saturday from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. at the Clarion Hotel, 2120 16 Ave. N.E., Calgary.
Season 3 of Fargo will star Ewan McGregor in two roles, brothers Emmitt and Ray Stussy.
Emmitt is the “Parking Lot King of Minnesota” and his brother is a balding, pot-bellied and bitter parole officer.
Carrie Coon, from HBO’s Leftovers, will play Eden Valley police chief Gloria Bungle. Mary Elizabeth Winstead, who recently starred in 10 Cloverfield Lane, will play a “crafty and alluring parolee with a passion for competitive bridge playing,” according to Deadline Hollywood.
Fargo creator Noah Hawley said the third season would take place in 2010 and that he liked “the idea that we’re now living in a very selfie-oriented culture where people photograph what they’re eating and put it up for other people to see.
“It feels like a social dynamic that is very antithetical to the sort of Lutheran pragmatism of the region.
“I like the idea of setting these very pragmatic and humble people against a culture of narcissism and see what that generates story wise.”