‘Fargo’ Season Two Adds Patrick Wilson As Young Lou Solverson
In the first season ofFargo,Keith Carradineplayed Lou Solverson, the father of the season’s primary sheriff’s deputy character Molly Solverson. We know that Lou is among the lead characters of the show’s second season, and thatFargoS2 will look back on the guy’s life at the end of the ’70s as he returned to Minnesota from a tour in Vietnam. Now we know that he’ll be a great-looking dude, as the show has just addedPatrick Wilsonas Lou Solverson — the late ’70s version of Lou, that is. Along with Wilson, the cast has just recruitedTed DansonandJean Smart, and we’ve got info on all their roles below.
Varietyfirst reported the additions, noting that Wilson’s version of Solverson is described as “a young clean-cut Minnesota State Patrolman, four years back from Vietnam, where he served in the Navy.”
Ted Danson will be Hank Larsson, “Lou’s father-in-law and the Sheriff of Rock County, Minnesota.”
And Jean Smart will play Floyd Gerhardt, “the matriarch of the Gerhardt crime family,” that being the family that series creator Noah Hawley recently said Solverson would run up against. So she’s one of the villains — such as a “villain” really is inFargo— and that’s awesome.These three join a cast that already includes Kirsten Dunst and Jesse Plemons, withNick Offerman, Brad Garrett, Kieran Culkin, Bokeem Woodbine, Jeffrey Donovan and Angus Sampson all set to appear in recurring roles.
PerHitFix, details on those recurring characters includes:
Fargo will begin production in Calgary, Alberta on January 19, and the second season is set to premiere this fall on FX.
