Fargo: Here's What We Learned About Season 3

FX's Fargoonly started shooting Season 3 last week, but the network teased what they could at the Television Critics Association winter previews Thursday.
The award-winning anthology series from Noah Hawley -- in case you don't know by now -- is inspired by the Coen brothers' film of the same name. But each season is its own story, and in Season 3, Ewan McGregor plays twin brothers -- Emmit and Ray Stussy -- whose sibling rivalry turns deadly. Mary Elizabeth Winstead plays Ray's girlfriend Nikki Swango, while Carrie Coon is Gloria Burgle, a police chief in the Midwestern town (which is the through line of this series, if there is one).

And though the seasons are technically not connected, and Season 3 is set in 2o10 -- "almost today" as executive producer Warren Littlefield put it -- there will be "kisses to Season 1."

FX boss drops hints about Fargo Season 3

McGregor, who admitted he hadn't seen the series until talks about him joining Season 3 began, said he worked harder on this Midwestern accent than he has for any other role. "The challenge is to master that accent, which is very difficult. It's strange to lock into. It's the hardest accent I've ever done, and I've done Dutch ones. It's very familiar -- we know it from the movies and Season 1 and 2 . Our audience is attuned to it. And within that to try and find Ray's voice and Emmit's voice, there's lots to play with there, so that's great."

Of course, McGregor has to play two roles, but he's had some practice there. He's embodied two people on film before, including his turn as Jesus and Satan in the film Last Days in the Desert.

"I'm very experienced playing with myself," McGregor joked.

Fargo will return sometime in April on FX.