Fargo's third season scored a high profile piece of casting recently when Ewan McGregor signed on. Creator Noah Hawley has added some sterling co-star power in the shape of Carrie Coon.
Coon, who played Ben Affleck's sister in Gone Girl and has been shooting the third and final season of acclaimed HBO series The Leftovers has won the role of portray Gloria Burgle, a practical woman who grabs the fire extinguisher when the bacon catches fire and everyone else panics. The chief of police in Edna Valley and a newly divorced mother, she struggles to understand this new world around her where people connect more intimately with their phones than the people directly in front of them.
McGregor's dual role, meanwhile, is that of twin brothers Emmit and Ray Stussy. Emmit is handsome, confident and has conquered the real estate market in Minnesota. Younger brother Ray, on the other hand, is a flabby parole officer who blames his sibling for his bad luck.
While the new season is set closer to the present than the first, Hawley has said he doesn't plan to have it tie-in to those events the way the first and second season were linked. Shooting should be kicking off later this year and we'll have to wait until 2017 for the new episodes. In addition to The Leftovers, Coon will be seen in supernatural romantic drama The Keeping Hours, which has yet to set a UK release.