Originally published December 19, 2016. Updated April 11, 2018.
The third season of FX’s acclaimed Fargo series has added another recognizable actor to its cast: character actor David Thewlis, who most will probably remember as Remus Lupin in the Harry Potter franchise.
According to EW, Thewlis will play V.M. Vargas, a “mysterious loner and true capitalist who delivers Emmit (Ewan McGregor) the bad news that he has just become partners with his employers, whose business interests lay outside the law.”
Besides appearing in five of the Harry Potter films, Thewlis also starred in The Big Lebowski, The Theory of Everything, Anomalisa, and has a role in next year’s Wonder Woman.
Fargo‘s third season will take place in 2010, a few years after the first season and decades before season 2. Joining Thewlis are Ewan McGregor (Star Wars Episode III: Revenge of the Sith) who is actually playing two characters, twin brothers Emmit and Ray Stussy (the Parking Lot King of Minnesota and a parole officer, respectively), Carrie Coon (Gone Girl, The Leftovers) as the chief of the Eden Valley Police Department, and Mary Elizabeth Winstead (10 Cloverfield Lane), a “crafty and alluring recent parolee. ”
Season 3 of Fargo is expected to premiere in Spring 2017.
