When we were going to say ‘action’ or ‘cut’ we had signals for each other for all those things.”Īll told, the sequence required more work than your average Fargo bloodbath. Then, beyond that, we were wordlessly communicating the entire time time, helping him to know what was going on. “Obviously, I don’t speak sign language, but I was able to pick up some things from him. The actor, like his on-screen counterpart, is deaf. “By the end of it, he and I had our own kind of communication that was just ours,” Winstead said of the grueling shoot alongside Harvard. It’s a masterclass in escalating tension from Hawley, co-writer Monica Beletsky and episode director Mike Barker think the “Pine Barrens” episode of The Sopranos if it was helmed by Hitchcock or Scorsese. An axe is thrown blindly, a crossbow bolt pierces Nikki’s leg, and in the end Qualls sits headless, the snow around him stained crimson red. Wrench, both fresh from a fiery prison bus crash, flee handcuffed into the woods, pursued by shark-eyed assassin Yuri Gulka (Goran Bogdan) and his associate, Golem (Qualls). Winstead’s hard-headed, impeccably-named Nikki Swango and Harvard’s deaf assassin Mr. She’s referring to a scene she shared with actor Russell Harvard, from the third-season Fargo chapter “Who Rules the Land of Denial?”, an all-timer for Noah Hawley’s anthology series that rivals the mesmerizing brutality of season two’s motel shootout. “It was just a really nice way to get to know someone,” the actress laughed, sitting across from me in an Upper East side apartment. Simply handcuff yourself to your new pal’s wrist, traverse the frigid Midwest wilderness together, then end your evening by decapitating a man against a tree stump, preferably the gangly character actor DJ Qualls. Mary Elizabeth Winstead-the current Fargo star who has wrestled John Goodman, hunted vampires alongside Abraham Lincoln and once rocked Scott Pilgrim’s world-has some truly A+ advice for meeting new friends. Unit 8G, Sharapan Fabrikant Team, Triplemint. Emily Assiran for Observer Shot on location at 225 East 34th St. Mary Elizabeth Winstead contemplates the streets of New York.

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