But most of those audience members weren’t alsointhe movie.
“It was great it looks great, it sounds great.”
Buscemi recalled Coen telling him aboutFargoaround the time they made 1991’sBarton Fink.
Frances McDormand in ‘Fargo’.Credit: Everett Collection
But during his audition, Macy asked to read for the role of Jerry.
He kind of, in a strange way, wrote the character for himself."
How the Mike Yanagita scene came about.
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(you’re able to read much more about that scene here.)
“I felt that we had the license to make that kind of left turn.”
About the Paul Bunyan statue….and the woodchipper.
“We finally realized that people were bringing their kids out before bed to see the statue.
“That’s how little there is to do in North Dakota.”
McDormand also gave Coen this prompt: “Tell them about the woodchipper.”
The woodchipper, of course, is how Gaear disposes of Carl’s body after killing him.
But it now has a starring role in a Minnesota town’s annual July 4th celebrations.
