{"id":27325,"date":"2014-05-07T01:44:22","date_gmt":"2014-05-07T06:44:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/deafnetwork.com\/wordpress\/?p=27325"},"modified":"2014-05-07T01:44:22","modified_gmt":"2014-05-07T06:44:22","slug":"austinites-noah-hawley-and-russell-harvard-provide-fargo-with-plenty-of-heat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/deafnetwork.com\/wordpress\/blog\/2014\/05\/07\/austinites-noah-hawley-and-russell-harvard-provide-fargo-with-plenty-of-heat\/","title":{"rendered":"Austinites Noah Hawley and Russell Harvard provide \u2018Fargo\u2019 with plenty of heat"},"content":{"rendered":"

Austinites Noah Hawley and Russell Harvard provide \u2018Fargo\u2019 with plenty of heat<\/strong><\/p>\n

April 28, 2014<\/p>\n

By Dale Roe<\/p>\n

American-Statesman Staff<\/p>\n

Austinite Noah Hawley, novelist and creator of the FX television series \u201cFargo,\u201d has a hate-hate relationship with Texas heat.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s starting to get hot here, mid-80s in the late-afternoon hours, but it\u2019s not the heat that\u2019s noteworthy,\u201d
\nHawley wrote in a March 2012 dispatch entitled \u201cAustin, but for how long?\u201d on his GoodReads.com author page. \u201cIt\u2019s what the heat implies, which is that soon it will be much hotter.\u201d<\/p>\n

So when I chatted by phone with him from the set of \u201cFargo\u201d in Calgary, where the freezing Canadian climes have been acting as the show\u2019s icy Bemidji, Minn., setting<\/span> for months, I wondered if Hawley and the heat had kissed and made up.<\/p>\n

\u201cYeah, I could use a little 100-degree heat right now,\u201d he said, laughing.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s a different kind of heat, but \u201cFargo\u201d has certainly netted Hawley and FX a warm reception from viewers and critics. A self-contained 10-episode miniseries of sorts that is set within the universe that Joel and Ethan Coen created for the pitch-black 1996 comedy\/drama \u2014 but with a completely new story and characters \u2014 it\u2019s the first time in a long time that Hawley, who once worked on Fox\u2019s \u201cBones\u201d and created TV\u2019s \u201cThe Unusuals\u201d and \u201cMy Generation,\u201d has written within somebody else\u2019s construct.<\/p>\n

FX \u201ccalled me and said, \u2018We\u2019re thinking about making a TV show out of \u2018Fargo,\u2019 but we\u2019re wondering if you could do it without Marge,\u201d Hawley says, referring to Frances McDormand\u2019s iconic pregnant police chief. \u201cBy which they meant without any characters from the movie.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhat they were really saying to me is, \u2018Hey, do you think you could make us a Coen brothers movie set in that region?\u2019 It\u2019s a challenge that was both intimidating and too exciting to pass up.\u201d<\/p>\n

Hawley incorporated signature technical approaches to make the look of the series match the Coens\u2019 films but<\/span> says that his goal was not to imitate the brothers.<\/p>\n

\u201cAt the end of the day, it\u2019s about, \u2018How can I create the same feeling in the audience that they get from watching one of their movies?\u2019 and it might not be by doing the exact same thing that they do,\u201d he says.<\/p>\n

The writer received a full series order, which meant that all 10 episodes were written without the need to film a pilot \u2014 \u201ca dream come true,\u201d he says.<\/p>\n

Hawley set out to assemble a feature-film quality cast for what he considers \u201ca 10-hour movie.\u201d By removing the possibility that candidates would have to lock<\/span> into multi-year contracts, he hoped to be able to attract the caliber of actors who wouldn\u2019t normally do television.<\/p>\n

It worked. In addition to Allison Tolman and Colin Hanks as police officers Molly and Gus, Hawley assembled a stellar cast, including Billy Bob Thornton, so good as the enigmatic, troublemaking<\/span> drifter Lorne Malvo; \u201cThe Hobbit\u201d star Martin Freeman as henpecked insurance salesman Lester Nygaard; and fellow Austinite Russell Harvard, a deaf actor who plays one of the heavies, Mr. Wrench (the character figures prominently in Tuesday\u2019s episode).<\/p>\n

Harvard, who has lived in Austin since he was just a year old and graduated from Texas School for the Deaf in 1999 (his parents, both deaf, had also attended the school), enjoyed playing the heavy. His scenes with fellow hit man (and interpreter<\/span>) Adam Goldberg as Mr. Numbers are violent and often hilarious.<\/p>\n

Hawley, who lives near Texas School<\/span> for the Deaf, created Harvard\u2019s character because he appreciated the beauty and duality of sign language. \u201cIt\u2019s so visual,\u201d Hawley says, \u201cand yet it\u2019s so private.\u201d He calls Harvard \u201cmagnetic and charismatic,\u201d a big physical presence you can\u2019t take your eyes off of.<\/p>\n

\u201cMr. Wrench sure is a dark and foreboding character,\u201d Harvard, who previously starred in the 2012 film \u201cThe Hammer,\u201d said in an email interview. \u201cI\u2019ve wanted to play the villain for a long time.\u201d<\/p>\n

The actor had never seen the original \u201cFargo\u201d and followed fellow cast member Keith Carradine\u2019s advice to wait until filming ended.<\/p>\n

Many others have, of course, seen the original film, which presents Hawley and FX with a double-edged sword: There are hard-core fans of the original \u201cFargo\u201d \u2014 intelligent people who love it so much they can\u2019t stand the idea of this series.<\/p>\n

\u201cI don\u2019t hold anyone\u2019s opinions against them,\u201d Hawley says. \u201cIt\u2019s an act of hubris, I think, to take it on, and it\u2019s not going to be for everyone.\u201d<\/p>\n

But he echoes the sentiments of FX president John Landgraf, who stood before critics and said, \u201cWe\u2019d rather make something great for somebody than make something good for everybody.\u201d<\/p>\n

Although the current characters\u2019 story is self-contained, there\u2019s a chance the series could go on.<\/p>\n

\u201cI don\u2019t think there\u2019s any universe in which we have the continuing adventures of Molly and Gus, but \u2026<\/span> \u2018Fargo\u2019 becomes a metaphor for a type of true crime case where truth is stranger than fiction,\u201d Hawley says. \u201cSo, there\u2019s no reason that there isn\u2019t another 10-hour true crime story that could be told in this region.<\/p>\n

\u201cI guess it\u2019s up to me to figure out what that might be.\u201d<\/p>\n

SOURCE:<\/p>\n

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Austinites Noah Hawley and Russell Harvard provide \u2018Fargo\u2019 with plenty of heat April 28, 2014 By Dale Roe American-Statesman Staff Austinite Noah Hawley, novelist and creator of the FX television series \u201cFargo,\u201d has a hate-hate relationship with Texas heat. \u201cIt\u2019s…<\/p>\n

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