Frances McDormand joined Joel Coen and Steve Buscemi at the 2021 Tribeca Festival to celebrate the 25th anniversary of “Fargo,” which won the performer her first Academy Award for Best Actress. McDormand’s humble police detective Marge Gunderson remains one of the Coen Brothers’ most beloved characters, but she could’ve been a bit more polarizing had an original idea to have Marge attend a “right to life protest” been kept in the script.
“Is it outing you to ask you to tell them the scene I read first?” McDormand asked Coen. “Her friend invited her to a right-to-life protest! Oh my God! Can you imagine?”
“There are a lot of thought experiments that happen while you’re doing these things,” Coen added. “Some of them you reject, some of them you don’t…There was a big population in parts of northern Minnesota that were very conservative.”
Instead of sending Marge to an anti-abortion rally,...
“Is it outing you to ask you to tell them the scene I read first?” McDormand asked Coen. “Her friend invited her to a right-to-life protest! Oh my God! Can you imagine?”
“There are a lot of thought experiments that happen while you’re doing these things,” Coen added. “Some of them you reject, some of them you don’t…There was a big population in parts of northern Minnesota that were very conservative.”
Instead of sending Marge to an anti-abortion rally,...
- 6/22/2021
- by Zack Sharf
- Indiewire
The Coen brothers’ Fargo at one point featured a minor storyline that could have sparked some political fireworks. Star Frances McDormand revealed what was in an earlier version of the script for the black comedy during a panel discussion following a 25th anniversary screening of the movie at the 2021 Tribeca Festival.
While director Joel Coen was discussing the Mike Yanagita (Steve Park) scene, McDormand shared that originally her character Marge went to Minneapolis “to do something else.”
“Her friend invited her to a right to life protest,” McDormand said, exclaiming, “Oh my God! Can you imagine?”
The ...
While director Joel Coen was discussing the Mike Yanagita (Steve Park) scene, McDormand shared that originally her character Marge went to Minneapolis “to do something else.”
“Her friend invited her to a right to life protest,” McDormand said, exclaiming, “Oh my God! Can you imagine?”
The ...
- 6/21/2021
- The Hollywood Reporter - Film + TV
The Coen brothers’ Fargo at one point featured a minor storyline that could have sparked some political fireworks. Star Frances McDormand revealed what was in an earlier version of the script for the black comedy during a panel discussion following a 25th anniversary screening of the movie at the 2021 Tribeca Festival.
While director Joel Coen was discussing the Mike Yanagita (Steve Park) scene, McDormand shared that originally her character Marge went to Minneapolis “to do something else.”
“Her friend invited her to a right to life protest,” McDormand said, exclaiming, “Oh my God! Can you imagine?”
The ...
While director Joel Coen was discussing the Mike Yanagita (Steve Park) scene, McDormand shared that originally her character Marge went to Minneapolis “to do something else.”
“Her friend invited her to a right to life protest,” McDormand said, exclaiming, “Oh my God! Can you imagine?”
The ...
- 6/21/2021
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
While the famous opening text in “Fargo” states that the story of the film was based on true events, it turns out that the Coen brothers only included this fraudulent message to subvert the audience’s expectations.
“It occurred to us that if an audience thinks that the template that you’re following are actual events, they actually give you more latitude to construct it in an unorthodox way,” Joel Coen said.
Coen participated in a Q&a conversation with his wife and star of “Fargo,” Frances McDormand, and Steve Buscemi at the Tribeca Festival 2021 on Friday night to commemorate the 25th anniversary of the film. The panel was moderated by Mark Harris, the former executive editor of Entertainment Weekly.
One of the unconventional elements Coen discussed is the addition of the awkward dinner scene where Marge reconnects with her old classmate, Mike Yanagita. While the scene doesn’t “necessarily...
“It occurred to us that if an audience thinks that the template that you’re following are actual events, they actually give you more latitude to construct it in an unorthodox way,” Joel Coen said.
Coen participated in a Q&a conversation with his wife and star of “Fargo,” Frances McDormand, and Steve Buscemi at the Tribeca Festival 2021 on Friday night to commemorate the 25th anniversary of the film. The panel was moderated by Mark Harris, the former executive editor of Entertainment Weekly.
One of the unconventional elements Coen discussed is the addition of the awkward dinner scene where Marge reconnects with her old classmate, Mike Yanagita. While the scene doesn’t “necessarily...
- 6/19/2021
- by Antonio Ferme
- Variety Film + TV
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