“I was born to play that role,” Macy said years after the fact.

“They said, ‘Thats real good.

You want to go home and work on it and come in tomorrow?'”

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We’ll let you know."

“Oh, you betcha, yah.”

Fortunately for Macy, Coen laughed, and the rest is history.

William H. Macy in Fargo

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“I was running outside, screaming,” he said.

“I knew it was big.

The role of the century.

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I just thought, ‘This is it.

This is going to be big.'”

Marge looking up in frustration in Fargo.

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Minnesota car salesman Jerry Lundegaard’s inept crime falls apart due to his and his henchmen’s bungling and the persistent police work of the quite pregnant Marge Gunderson.

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