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Casting News: Kirsten Dunst and Jesse Plemons to Star in Second Installment of <i>Fargo</i>

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  • December 10, 2014

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Fans of FX’s miniseries, Fargo, have been eager for news of where the second installment will take them, and who will star in it. Today, the network announced Golden Globe®  award nominated actress Kirsten Dunst and Breaking Bad’s Jesse Plemon have signed on to the award-winning miniseries, which will unfold over ten episodes in the fall of 2015.

For more information, check out the following press release.

 

GOLDEN GLOBE®AWARD NOMINATED KIRSTEN DUNST AND

BREAKING BAD’S JESSE PLEMONS TAKE STARRING ROLES

IN THE SECOND INSTALLMENT OF MGM TELELVISION AND FX PRODUCTION’S

EMMY® AND AFI AWARD WINNING ANTHOLOGY MINISERIES FRANCHISE FARGO

 

Emmy Award Winning Executive Producer and Writer Noah Hawley Returns as Showrunner

Along with Executive Producers Warren Littlefield and John Cameron

 

Production Begins in January with the 10-Episode Limited Series Slated to Premiere Fall 2015

 

LOS ANGELES, December 10, 2014 – Golden Globe nominated actress Kirsten Dunst (Interview with the Vampire) and Breaking Bad’s Jesse Plemons have signed on to star in the second installment of MGM Television and FX Production’s Emmy and Award winning miniseries franchise Fargo, it was announced today by Eric Schrier, President, Original Programming, FX Networks and FX Productions and Steve Stark President, Television Production & Development of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studios.  Production will begin in Calgary in January 2015 and the 10-episode anthology miniseries is slated to premiere next fall on FX.

 

Emmy Award winning Executive Producers Noah Hawley (showrunner/writer), Joel & Ethan Coen, Warren Littlefield and John Cameron all return for the second installment.  Fargo is produced by MGM Television and FX Productions. MGM Television serves as worldwide distributor of the series.

 

Kirsten Dunst. Copyright © 2014 BestCelebrityHairstyles.com. All Rights Reserved.

Dunst will play “Peggy Blomquist,” a small town beautician with big city dreams who is trying to figure out who she really is and what she really wants as she struggles with traditional societal expectations. She shares her home with her husband “Ed” (Plemons), a butcher’s assistant, who wants to be supportive of his wife’s self-discovery, even if he doesn’t quite understand it.

 

Dunst earned a Golden Globe nomination for her performance in the 1994 feature film Interview with the Vampire and won the Best Actress Award at the 2011 Cannes Film Festival for her role in Melancholia.

Her other numerous feature film credits include Bring It On, The Virgin Suicides, the Spider-Man franchise and, most recently, Two Faces of January.  Dunst can next be seen in Warner Bros’ Midnight Special (directed by Jeff Nichols). She is repped by United Talent Agency and Management 360.

 

Jesse Plemons. Courtesy of IMDb.

Plemons is best known for his roles on AMC’s critically-acclaimed series Breaking Bad and NBC’s award-winning series Friday Night Lights. He recently finished filming Scott Cooper’s Black Mass and Stephen Frears’ Untitled Cycling Film. Currently, Plemons can be seen in the Tommy Lee Jones-directed film, The Homesman. He is repped by TalentWorks and David Matlof.

 

Fargo’s new chapter, which will unfold over the course of 10 episodes, will travel back to 1979 in Sioux Falls, South Dakota and Luverne, Minnesota, where a young State Police Officer “Lou Solverson” (yet to be cast), recently back from Vietnam, will tackle an all new “true crime” case.  Solverson’s wife, “Betsy,” (yet to be cast) their four-year-old daughter, “Molly,” (yet to be cast) and fellow officer, “Ben Schmidt,” (yet to be cast) will also be featured in the new installment.

 

An adaptation of the classic Academy Award® winning feature film of the same title by Joel & Ethan Coen, FX’s first installment of Fargo, which garnered universal critical acclaim, received an astounding 18 Emmy nominations – the second highest total of any program on television this year – and won three awards, including Outstanding Miniseries; Outstanding Directing for a Miniseries, Movie or Dramatic Special (Colin Bucksey); and Outstanding Casting for a Miniseries, Movie or Special (Rachel Tenner).

Source: © 2014 FX Networks. All Rights Reserved.

 

 

Linda

Love TV, movies, and books--mostly mysteries, with a good love story thrown in every now and then. I have four adopted dogs who I adore. I love trying new recipes, and enjoy eating what I make. English language perfectionist. Reading in bed, Italian food, warm weather, the beach, all types of games = favs!

Linda

Love TV, movies, and books--mostly mysteries, with a good love story thrown in every now and then. I have four adopted dogs who I adore. I love trying new recipes, and enjoy eating what I make. English language perfectionist. Reading in bed, Italian food, warm weather, the beach, all types of games = favs!