When the first season ofStranger Thingshit, nobody knew quite what to make of the character of Steve Harrington, played by Joe Keery. Based on all audience expectations of ‘80s movies, the big-haired jock boyfriend of the lead girl should turn out to be a bullying jerk, but he wasn’t. IfStranger Thingswas likePretty in Pink, Keery was playing the Andrew McCarthy role, not the James Spader.
During the course of the show, Keery has fought monsters, gotten beat up in every season, and been an able and shining member of an eccentric and large cast of characters making up the beleaguered citizenry of Hawkins, Indiana. His ability to shine in a cast made up of such varied actors means it’s all the more fitting that Keery is getting to expand his filmography, as Variety reports that he is joining the ensemble anthology crime seriesFargo,now entering its fifth season, on FX, even asStranger Thingsbegins its fifth.
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AsStranger Thingswent on, Keery grew even more integral to the show, making up the heart of it as he would act as big brother and protector of all the other kids in the ensemble, always doing what was right when the crisis hit (usually with some sort of spiked baseball bat in hand). His friendship with Dustin Henderson (Gaten Matazarro) took on special significance, and his new friendship with Robin Buckley (Maya Hawke) has proven equally fun during the series’ run.
Fargo,the smash crime anthology serieson FX is an actor’s paradise, a place to shine even amongst the all-timers that inevitably make up each season’s ensemble. The current season already has a trio of heavy hitters including Jon Hamm (Mad Men), Jennifer Jason Leigh (who was also in the Coen brothers’ film,The Hudsucker Proxy) and Juno Temple, fresh off of Paramount’sThe Offer. Keery would be joining this illustrious bunch, playing the character of Gator Tillman, another ofFargo’s wacky-named misfits that end up going through the thresher of a failed criminal scheme.
Noah Hawley’s hit series, based on the Coen brothers' film of the same name, has seen everything from one-man wrecking crews wreaking bloody mayhem, to a gang war (with a visit by a UFO), to a battle between avatars of God and the Devil, to a race war between two different mobs. In its fifth season, the series is set in the year 2019, and, according to Variety, “asks the questions when is a kidnapping not a kidnapping, and what if your wife isn’t yours?” Weird, wild stuff that makes up theFargocrime universe—and with Keery now in the fold, there’ll be someStranger Thingshappening, indeed.
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