FARGO Season 4 Casting: Jason Schwartzman, Ben Whishaw, Jack Huston, and More Join Chris Rock
It’s been awhile since we’ve had any news to share with you regarding Noah Hawley’s Fargo Season 4. It was initially announced that Chris Rock would star, but now we know who will be joining him in the series!
Jason Schwartzman (Rushmore, Ben Whishaw (Skyfall), Jack Huston (Boardwalk Empire), and more have been cast in Season 4, the story of which is set in Kansas City in the 1950s. I’ve included additional details on the story as well, which you will find after the following casting details.
The cast includes Jack Huston as Odis Weff, Jason Schwartzman play Josto Fadda, Ben Whishaw as Rabbi Milligan, Jessie Buckley as Orietta Mayflower, Salvatore Esposito as Gaetano Fadda, Andrew Bird as Thurman Smutney, Jeremie Harris as Leon Bittle, Gaetano Bruno as Constant Calamita, Anji White as Dibrell Smutney, Francesco Acquaroli as Ebal Violante, E’myri Crutchfield as Ethelrida Pearl Smutney, and Amber Midthunder (recurring) as Swanee Capps.
There are no details on these characters, but here’s the official story description for the upcoming season:
In 1950, at the end of two great American migrations — that of Southern Europeans from countries like Italy, who came to the US at the turn of the last century and settled in northern cities like New York, Chicago — and African Americans who left the south in great numbers to escape Jim Crow and moved to those same cities — you saw a collision of outsiders, all fighting for a piece of the American dream. In Kansas City, Missouri, two criminal syndicates have struck an uneasy peace. One Italian, one African American. Together they control an alternate economy — that of exploitation, graft and drugs. This too is the history of America. To cement their peace, the heads of both families have traded their eldest sons.
Chris Rock plays the head of one family, a man who — in order to prosper — has surrendered his oldest boy to his enemy, and who must in turn raise his son’s enemy as his own. It’s an uneasy peace, but profitable. And then the head of the Kansas City mafia goes into the hospital for routine surgery and dies. And everything changes. It’s a story of immigration and assimilation, and the things we do for money. And as always, a story of basically decent people who are probably in over their heads. You know, Fargo.
Fargo Season 4 doesn’t have an official premiere date yet. I love the cast of the series, and it sounds like it’ll tell another great and interesting story.