On overthinking.
Rambling about the writing process, beneath the cut.
Last night I came across a single fic I’d written just after my first fandom (HP), before the many years of writer’s block I had before Sherlock. It remains unpublished for many reasons, mostly because at the…
So what brought the actor the series? It was the script. “The whole first episode is what I based my decision on,” Freeman says. “For pretty much the entire ten episodes, I get to play the full depth of human experience.” Freeman says that’s an actor’s dream, something he couldn’t turn down. He describes showrunner/writer Noah Hawley’s scripts as full of surprises – and as an actor, it was worthwhile to not overprepare, to allow the character to be surprised from scene to scene: “Your understanding really evolves as you read. So by the end of episode ten, Lester is doing things that he wouldn’t do in episode one.”
Martin talks about what brought him to playing the role of Lester Nygaard in Fargo (x)
