Thursday, April 20 marks the annual cannabis celebration 420. With fans of the drug in North America and around to world set to celebrate en masse, there is still confusion over the meaning of the celebration, and theories on where the term originated abound.
While some claim the term comes from the police code 420 meaning marijuana smoking in progress, others have linked the name to dictator Adolf Hitlers birthday, which was on April 20. The most widely accepted theory, more plausibly, stems from the notoriously eclectic band The Grateful Dead.
Marijuana fans the world over are set to celebrate 420 on Thursday. [Image by Marcio Jose Sanchez/AP Images]
Legend has it, Dave Reddix, a roadie for the band, coined the term during high school in the 1970s when he would regularly meet up with several of his friends after school at 4:20 to smoke marijuana. Reddix and his friends would reportedly use the code 420 to each other throughout the day to make plans for that afternoon. After Reddixs brother helped him get a job with the band, the term quickly caught on through the circle of Grateful Dead fans, or, Deadheads, a group that has long been synonymous with the drug.
The name really took off in 1990 when the band released a flyer inviting fans to smoke 420 with them at 4:20 P.M on April 20. A flyer reportedly found its way to Steve Bloom, a reporter from weed-centric publication High Times who published the flyer in the magazine and continued to use 420 to reference the drug.
TIME tracked down Reddix and interviewed him on the eve of the celebration. When asked about the significance of the time 4:20, Reddix had a surprisingly simple answer. He explained that school finished at 3 p.m., with sports practice immediately after, so by the time Reddix and his friends were finished with their daily commitments, it was around 4:20 p.m.
Reddix went on to explain the factors that lead to the creation of their cannabis club.
We got tired of the Friday-night football scene with all of the jocks. We were the guys sitting under the stands smoking a doobie, wondering what we were doing there.
Around the country and the world, stoners and marijuana enthusiast alike get ready to celebrate the annual event on Thursday, April 20. While in the past this may have meant mayhem and chaos for police, the growing acceptance of marijuana across North America and parts of the world mean the majority of those celebrating run little risk of punishment or arrest.
USA Today report that the sheer size of the crowds that gather on College Campuses and public spaces to observe the celebration mean that even those states that have not yet legalized the recreational consumption of weed are likely to turn a blind eye come Thursday.
Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has announced plans to decriminalize recreational use of marijuana in the country. [Image by Richard Drew/AP Images]
With numerous states across the US and all of Canada reducing or abolishing penalties for recreational use of the drug, large numbers of green tourists are reportedly arriving in more relaxed states ready to celebrate on Thursday. Speaking to self-proclaimed bud tender Jason Coleman, USAToday report that many Denver, Colorado area marijuana dispensaries are preparing for record sales. Coleman, a worker at popular Denver dispensary Medicine Man said he expected the store to double their normal sales in the days leading up to 420.
South Carolina tourist Catherine Heelan described the mood in Colorado compared to her home state.
For people like me, its mind blowing. Theres no shame. The stigma and shame is gone here. No one looks down on you.
Meanwhile, political activists are also using the occasion to protest federal government interference with state-level legislation regarding the legalization of marijuana for medical uses. The demonstration aims to hand out 1,000 joints to workers on Capitol Hill before holding a mass smoke-in on the Capitol steps next Monday.
Buried just underneath the blood-splattered snow mounds of the American Midwest, right out of earshot of the aw jeezs and dontchyaknows that populateFargos Minnesota Nice is a question Noah Hawleyand the Coen brothers before himhave been trying to answer since 1996: What, exactly, makes a story true? What does it mean for a storyteller to claim, upfront, to be taking you on a journey exactly as it occurred, only to have a UFO descend from the sky to break up a firefight?
The Law of Vacant Places, Fargos third season premiere, lays out this thesis blunter than any Fargo season (or film) before it. We open with a small room somewhere in East Berlin, 1988, on the Communist side of the still-standing Berlin Wall. Outside it is lightly snowing, but inside two men are caught in one heck of a misunderstanding:Jakob Ungerleider knows, possibly for a fact, he is not Yuri Gurka, that his wifes name is Helga Ungerleider and not Helga Albracht, that she is at home avoiding the winter weather and not lying in a morgue, strangled to death. But for Jakob Ungerleider to be right, the stateand by extension, the stoic officer sitting across from himwould have to be wrong. What you are giving me is words, the officer says. This wife who is alive, a different last name, that is called a story. We are not here to tell stories. We are here to tell the truth. Understand?
And we do understand, then, that in its third year Fargo is going to exist more than ever in the murky gray between Ungerleider and the state, truth and story, trudging plow-like through the foothills between a truth, your truth and the truth. Which makes it all the more appropriate that when fargo: year 3 arrives now, 2017, a period plagued with alternative facts and fake news, it does so not with the grace of a UFO but with all the subtly of an air conditioner falling on your head.
Flash forward to 2010; the dates, names and location change but the situation is same as it ever was. We trade Ungerleider vs. the Communist state for Stussy vs. Stussy, Ray and Emmit, two brothers (but not twins) both portrayed in varying degrees of paunchiness by Ewan McGregor. McGregor, who has played dual roles twice before, seems to have a better handle on Ray, thanks, Im sure, in no small part to the sometimes-prosthetic, sometimes au naturelgut dragging down his usually slight frame, as life seems to do to Ray at any given turn. As Emmit, his performance feels a lot more like Ewan McGregor got drunk at a Great Gatsby-themed party and tried to do a Minnesota accent. Great wigs, though, and kudos to whoever decided to color Emmits smile a white more blinding than the snow outside his stuffed-bear-boasting mansion. What Hawley has instilled in both brothers, though, is a belief in something they believe to be true at such a deep, fundamental level, theyre both willing to stealand, eventually, killin order to bring that truth to life. Emmit, that he deserves his vast fortune, that hes earned it; Ray, that his brother stole that very same fortune away from him.
Heres what we do know: When the brothers father died, he bequeathed a red Corvette to Emmitand a vintage stamp collection to Ray. Emmit, business-savvy even then, proposed a trade and Ray, just 15-years-old with visions of backseat trysts dancing in his head, agreed. The eldest Stussy then sold the stamp collection into the basis for his eventual fortune, vaulting off that foundation to become the Parking Lot King of Minnesota, while Ray steered that red Corvette out of his high-school glory days and into a life of male-pattern baldness and parolees splashing p**s on to his cowboy boots. The way I figure, you still owe me, Ray tells Emmit in the brothers only scene across from each other, one lone stamp still hung lovingly on the office wall behind them.
And, again, who knows what the truth is? Who knows whether Emmit would have still amassed a fortune while driving a dingy Corvette, or if Ray would have even realized the value of some dusty stamps? What matters is thebeliefthat they are right,a belief so strong that, in Rays case, he convinces drug-test-blowing parolee Maurice LeFay (a delightfully strung out Scoot McNairy) to break into his brothers house and steal back what he sees as his birthright. But belief is as dangerous as it is fickle; after all, it is because Maurice is sure, so sure, half-stoned and full-dense as he is that the address written on the wind-stolen piece of paper read Eden Prarie that he ends up breaking into the wrong home and murdering the step-father of Gloria Burgle.
Gloriaand what a name that is, Gloria Burgleis Fargos prerequisite put-upon small-town police officerjust, aw heck, trying to do the right thing, aspiritual successor in browns and tans to both Molly (Allison Tolman, season one) and Lou (Patrick Wilson, season two) Solverson. Glorias a whisper in the Minnesota wind, struggling to gain attention from a smart-phone absorbed son, Nathan, and automatic doors alike. The fact that Glorias husband left her for another man doesnt say as much as her quiet acceptance after the fact.
But, as anyone who has seen HBOs misery-hour The Leftovers can tell you, a character played by the formidable Carrie c**n is going to have more layers a Fargo extrasoutfit. The same woman who casually describes a U-Turn as flipping the b-word is also to walk, unflinching, into her step-fathers suspiciously open front door, to return gun-drawn even after she discovershis body in front of the open freezer door.
Fargo, for all its cheeky colloquialism and black humor, is still usually good for at least one panic-attack-disguised-as-TV-scene per episode (heck, season two was made up of roughly 85 percent tense standoffs). And Jesus, what a scene. Hawley plays with the darknessor lack thereof only an isolated house in the middle of the Minnesotan countryside could provide, but its the sound that turns this into a nightmare; the static of the TV mingled withMaurices faint footsteps are all we get until that overwhelming throat-singingthink Watto from Star Wars: The Phantom Menace but possessed by the demon Pazuzubursts in to soundtrack Glorias mad, flashlight-assisted rushthrough a house that suddenly seems just that much more haunted.
And, in the end, it amounts only to confusion and the discovery of a stack of what looks like old horror and pulp (The Dungeon Lurk, The Planet Wyh). What the heck? whispers Gloria to a house that can only answer with creaks in the wind.
Bless Mary Elizabeth Winsteads Nikki Swango for providing the world with A) The name Nikki Swango, a surefire staple onfake IDs for years to come, and B) the mostand possibly onlyballer as h**l competitive bridge montage in the history of competitive bridge. While Maurice bungles the stamp-theft to high h**l, Ray and his simpatico to the point of spooky parolee-turned-girlfriendare taking home third runner-up (check herFacebook, it happened) in the Wildcat Invitational.
I love the genuine affectionbetween Nikki and RayNikki could have easily been played as a leeching harpy, Ray just as simply slipped into the role of vengeful thugespecially when compared to the private life of Emmit. Nikkis apartment is nothing compared to Emmits sprawling estate, but she and Ray fill the entire placewith warmth as easily as they fill the bathtub with their bodies; compare that to Emmits wife reminding him to take off his house shoes, a nod to a life of great sterility.
But, of course, no moment of peaceful bliss goes untarnished in the Fargo universe. I wont lie, Maurice says, bursting into Nikkis bathroom bearing a sleeve of $.25 stamps. It did not go smooth.It never does; the situation escalates, from threat to threat, from bare a*s to bare a*s until Maurice draws a gun, demanding a dollar value of $5,ooo for his troubles. I believe it was Chekhov who dictated a gun drawn must be fired by the third act unless the character who drew said gun is crushed to death underneath an air-conditioning unit.
Hawley milked that death-by-AC for all it was worth, spinning and whirling its way from Nikkis apartment to Maurices cranium, and I wont sit here and tell you the resulting Silly Putty-esque flattening wasnt worth the wait. But even more, it cleverly justifiedthe idea of Nikkiscompetitive bridge infatuation; any person who understands the mind-dulling rules of a game like Bridge, understands wellenough for gosh-darn third runner up spot in the Wildcat Invitational, is a character I believe can calculate Maurices flight down her apartment steps.
Appropriate, too, that its Ray, the bald-headed brawn to Nikkis brains, that eventually says h**l to the data and simply boots the A.C. from the window. The aftermath of the murder, so quickly and efficiently done, is key; the duo is energized, even elated. Youre sosexy, he says to Nikki as she lies to a police officer over the phone. Because to these two, especially Ray, all of this, the botched robbery, the quick escalation to violence, its all a means to procuring what Ray is owed. Has always been owed. Ray isnt dangerous because hes naturally a criminal, or because hes violent. Hes dangerous because of that malleable idea of the truth, his truth, a vision of a future-to-bethat so consumes Ray Stussy hes willing to do anything to make it a reality.
As the strains ofNathaniel Rateliff & The Night Sweats S.O.B. closes out the episode, its only appropriate that the lyrics Im gonna need someone to help me echoas we cut back to Gloria, a character whose grip on reality, once as simple as flipping a b-word on a wide open road, is plummetingfaster than a dislodged air-conditioner, turning end over end toward the pavement.
Its hard to glean much of David Thewlis rot-mouthed enigma V.M. Varga, which I believe is exactly the point. I do love the way Thewlis plays him seemingly detached from humanitywaiting in Emmits office in the dark like an unplugged robot was a great touchwhich lends an extra chilling note of uncertainty to lines like We already have access to your system.
Note: thanks to a visit to the set, I know what the deal is with Vargas teeth. It aint great. Its actually, in Thewlis own words, very gross.
You know the more I think about it, the more I question why Nikkiwhy anyone living in Minnesota, actuallywould even need an air conditioner in the first place.
If all Michael Stuhlbargs Sy Feltz does the entire season is passive-aggressively echo anything Emmit says with an extended jeeeeeeez, I would not complain.
Überraschung! Serena Williams ist in der 20. Woche schwanger
Serena Williams is pregnant, her representative confirmed Wednesday afternoon, hours after the tennis star posted and then deleted what appeared to be a baby announcement on social media.
"I"m happy to confirm Serena is expecting a baby this Fall," the athlete"s rep told the associated press via email.
williams" early morningSnapchatselfie showed the 35-year-old athlete in profile, wearinga bright yellow one-piece swimsuit and sportingthe bittiest of bellies captioned with the declaration,"20 weeks."
Williams and Redditco-founder Alexis Ohaniangot engaged in December. Other posts on her Snapchatshowed signs of what appeared to be a vacation in Mexico.
Along with lots of entertainment and news outlets, the Women"s Tennis Assn. picked up on the Snapchat post early in the morningbut later took down its congratulations message, according to CNN, which posted a screen grab of the deleted selfie. Tennis" US Open offered congratulationsas well, without question.
Updated, 4:53p.m.: This post wasupdated with confirmation that Williams is pregnant.
A Port Neches-Groves High School student allegedly attempted to recruit others to join him in a columbine style shooting at his school and mentioned shooting students in a hallway where they would be trapped.
Scott Eslinger, KBMT 7:50 PM. CDT April 19, 2017
Triston Miller, 17 Photo/Jefferson County Sheriff"s Office
PORT NECHES - A Port Neches-Groves High Schoolstudent allegedly attempted to recruit others to join him in a columbine style shooting at his school and mentioned shooting students in a hallway where they would be trapped.
TristonBrantley Miller, 17, was arrested Wednesday afternoon at his relatives home and taken to the Jefferson County Correctional Center according to a release from the Port Neches Police Department.
Miller was arrested at about 1:25 p.m. Wednesday, the day before the alleged attack was to have taken place, by PortNechesofficersaccordingto therelease.
PortNechesPolice were notified on Thursday, April 13, 2017, of possible threats being made at PortNeches-GrovesHigh School the release said.
According to a probable cause affidavit obtained by 12Newsfour students witnessed Miller talking about shooting people at the school.
READ | Scroll down to read the PC Affidavit
He detailedwhich teachers he wanted to kill first as well as which students he wanted to kill according to the affidavit.
Miller also went into detail about shooting students in a certain hallway after lunch where they would be trapped the affidavit said.
The affidavit also said that Miller attempted to recruit others in the attack that he talked about carrying out on the April 20 anniversarydate of the Columbine high School shooting.
Miller also mentioned wanting to buy a gun about to another student a month ago according to the affidavit.
When police interviewed Miller he admitted to them that he had talked to other students about the Columbine shooting but deniedmaking any threats to anyone the affidavit said.
The Port Neches Police department told 12news that Miller was expelled from school before he was arrested this afternoon.
Miller is being held on a $100,000 bond according to the Jefferson County Sheriff"s Office.
The Columbine High School shooting happened on April 20, 1999, in Jefferson County, Colorado, when Dylan Klebold and Eric Harris shot 35 people killing 12 students and one teacher before killing themselves.
Cant Do The Time..Don"t Do The Crime: Aaron Hernandez vs. Steve Stevens
When corrections officers found Aaron Hernandez hanging from a bedsheet in his Massachusetts prison cell on Wednesday, the words "John 3:16" were written on his forehead and the wall, according to reports.
The words were written with a red marker and a Bible was left open to the lines,sources told Fox 25. The verse says: For G*d so loved the world that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in Him shall not perish but have eternal life.
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Guards found the former New England Patriots star shortly after 3 a.m. at the state prison in Shirley, Correction Department spokesman Christopher Fallon said. The former tight end was taken to a hospital and pronounced dead about an hour later.
Officials spent Wednesday gathering evidence from the cell. They reviewed surveillance video and spoke to the prison staff.
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A suicide note wasn"t found in the cell and officials said there was no indication that Hernandez was suicidal.Otherwise, Hernandez would have been transferred to a mental health unit, Fallon said.
"There were no conversations or correspondence from Aaron to his family or legal team that would have indicated anything like this was possible," said his attorney, Jose Baez. "Aaron was looking forward to an opportunity for a second chance to prove his innocence. Those who love and care about him are heartbroken and determined to find the truth surrounding his untimely death."
The apparent suicide left friends, family and his legal team shocked and in disbelief. Many were searching for an explanation to the tragic end of a young man whose football skills at one point earned him a five-year, $40 million contract extension with the NFL"s top franchise.
Hernandez, 27, died five days after a jury acquitted him in the 2012 shooting deaths of two men whom prosecutors alleged he gunned down after one accidentally spilled a drink on him at a Boston nightclub. He was already serving a life sentence for the 2013 slaying of semi-pro football player Odin Lloyd, who was dating the sister of Hernandez"s fiancee ShayannaJenkins.
The Patriots had no immediate comment on Wednesday, and President Donald Trump made no mention of Hernandez at the White House event.
Hernandez was a star tight end for the University of Florida, but was dropped to the fourth round of the NFL draft because of trouble in college that included a failed drug test and a bar fight. His name also had come up in an investigation into a shooting.
Still, he was a productive tight end for the Patriots for three seasons. He caught 79 passes for 910 yards and seven touchdowns in his second year to help the team reach the Super Bowl.
But the Patriots released Hernandez in 2013, shortly after he was arrested in Lloyd"s murder.
Last week, Hernandez was acquitted in the 2012 drive-by shootings of two men in Boston. As the jury deliberated, cameras spied Hernandez blowing kisses to the young daughter he fathered with Jenkins.
Investigators suggested Hernandez shot Lloyd to keep him quiet about the two earlier killings. A lawyer who represents Lloyd"s mother said she"s moving forward with a wrongful-death lawsuit against Hernandez"s estate, which includes a home valued at $1.3 million.
In the Dorchester neighborhood where Lloyd grew up, a family friend of the victim wondered if Hernandez could no longer bear the weight of his crime and his squandered potential.
"I just think it got to him the guilt," Mixson Philip said. "Each man has to live with himself. You can put on an act like nothing happened, but you"ve got a soul. You"ve got a heart."
Friends also were grieving in Connecticut, where Hernandez was raised.
"Especially after him getting acquitted of the double murder. That was a positive thing in our minds," said Alex Cugno, who grew up with Hernandez in Bristol. "I don"t believe that he would have killed himself. It just doesn"t add up."
Portland Trail Blazers vs Golden State Warriors - Full Game Highlights | Game 1 | April 16,2017
OAKLAND, Calif. JaVale McGee has made a name for himself catching lob passes and reliably slamming them home to the pure delight of his teammates, and oh did those matter for the short-handed golden state warriors as they moved one win closer to another NBA championship.
The typically spot-on Splash Brothers weren"t hitting consistently. Kevin Durant wasn"t on the court at all, nor Shaun Livingston.
McGee shined on a night none of the usual stars found their steady shooting strokes and sparked Golden State off the bench with 15 points, and the Warriors beat the Portland Trail Blazers 110-81 in Game 2 of their first-round playoff series Wednesday night as Durant sat out injured.
"That"s my whole thing, I just try to be efficient out there," McGee said.
The backup big man made all seven of his field-goal attempts and delivered several more of his signature alley-oop dunks as Durant watched with a strained left calf he hurt in the playoff opener Sunday.
"Sometimes we get caught up in looking for him too much when he"s not open because we feel he can do something spectacular above the rim," Stephen Curry said.
Draymond Green put together another fantastic all-around game, getting 12 rebounds, 10 assists, six points and three more blocked shots after swatting five in Sunday"s win.
Curry went 6 for 18 for 19 points and also had six assists and six rebounds. Klay Thompson was 6 of 17 with 16 points and CJ McCollum and Damian Lillard were hardly were the dynamic scoring duo for Portland they"d been combining for 75 points only three days earlier.
Again, Golden State did it on defense holding the Blazers to 12 points in the third.
"Our offense got scattered, we were rushing everything. We were just not poised offensively and that put our defense in a bad position," coach Steve Kerr said. "I thought in the third quarter we settled our offense down which helped our defense."
And now the Warriors own a 2-0 lead in the best-of-seven series as it shifts to Portland for Saturday"s Game 3, just as Kerr"s group did going ahead on the Blazers in last year"s Western Conference semifinal won in five games.
"We"ve got to have this one," Lillard said.
Maurice Harkless scored all of his 15 points in the first half and the Blazers gave up seven straight points to start the third as the Warriors were off and running. Portland played again without center Jusuf Nurkic, and missed him. The 7-footer still isn"t 100 percent from a nondisplaced fracture in his right leg that sidelined him for the final seven regular-season games.
McCollum, who shot 16 for 28 to score 41 in the 121-109 Game 1 loss, scored 11 points on 4-for-17 shooting. Lillard was 5 for 17 and held to 12 points.
"Coming in the first two games we just wanted to take one," Lillard said. "We didn"t do that."
Coach Terry Stotts called on his team to be more balanced to have a chance against top-seeded Golden State, which finished with the NBA"s best record for a third straight season.
Instead, the Warriors once more showed their remarkable balance despite Livingston being sidelined after he also got hurt in Sunday"s win.
Ian Clark scored 13 points, Andre Iguodala contributed 10 rebounds, six assists and six points, and Zaza Pachulia scored 10 points. McGee did his thing with three alley-oops in the first and two on consecutive possessions late in the period.
TIP-INS
Trail Blazers: The Blazers" third-quarter scoring output was their lowest in any period this season and tied for the fewest in a quarter by a Warriors playoff opponent in the shot clock era. ... Portland shot 7 for 34 on 3s and 30 for 90 overall. ... The Blazers have lost 11 out of the last 12 to the Warriors and 11 straight at Oracle Arena.
Warriors: Thompson matched Hall of Famer Rick Barry for second place on the franchise list for postseason games played with 66. ... Livingston sat out with a sprained right index finger and bruised hand, while F Matt Barnes didn"t play as he is still working back from a sprained right ankle and foot. ... Rookie Patrick McCaw earned his first playoff start in place of Durant and had nine points and five rebounds. ... Curry joined Barry as the only Warriors with 100 steals in the playoffs.
UP NEXT
Kerr hopes to have a healthy lineup for Game 3, though might choose to hold out Durant again given the series lead.
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EXCLUSIVE: Carrie c**n Talks Unexpected Leftovers Finale and Joining Fargo Season 3
I wasnt expecting the ending that we got, but it was
immensely satisfying to me, says Carrie c**n, who plays Nora Durst on The Leftovers, the Peabody Award-winning
series about the lives of those left on Earth after two percent of the worlds
population disappears, which is now airing its third and final season on HBO.
[Its] especially gratifying to have Nora be so much a part
of the ending, c**n says of her character, who lost her husband and two kinds during
the Departure and struggled with depression in the years since. Her character
eventually found some solace with Kevin Garvey (Justin Theroux) and in their
retreat to Texas, where the show moved to in season two. Working for the
Department of Sudden Departure, Nora finds herself unsettled once again, when her
investigation into a fraudulent company promising to reunite people with the
Departed takes her to Melbourne, Australia, in season three.
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[Its] also challenging as an actor just because of the
volume of things I had to learn there at the very, very end. And we were exhausted
and theres quite a bit of stunt work that I got do myself, the actress says
of not only grappling with the weight of the story but also the physical
demands of performing stunts and working on location in Australia, where Theroux
said the elements were a real challenge at times. It was very uncomfortable, a lot, he said of filming in the Outback.
In some ways, it was great
to be so mentally and physically exhausted by the last episode, c**n says.
It just seemed appropriate to leave it all on the table. [It] was the only way
to finish the series.
And for the actress, its par for the course. After gaining attention
for her Tony-nominated performance in the 2012 Broadway production of Whos Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, c**n made her feature film debut in gone
girl, playing ben afflecks sister. the
leftovers, which arrived the same year, was her first major TV opportunity.
So, I just sort of started my adventure into television, she said last
summer, following the HBO series" acclaimed season two, which earned her Emmy
buzz as well as a 2016 Critics Choice Television Award.
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However, the adventure included a steep learning curve after
coming from the stage. On The Leftovers
set, c**n had less time to get it right -- or at least get it adequately, she
said with a newfound appreciation for just how deep one has to reach,
especially while mentally or physically exhausted. You have to find this well
inside yourself you didn"t know you had.
When it came to Fargo,
Noah Hawleys FX anthology series now in its third season, the actress not only came to set
with some experience but also a deep appreciation for the shows signature
Minnesota accents. Born in Ohio, c**n earned a M.F.A. in acting from the University
of Wisconsin-Madison, becoming full immersed in the North Central dialect. In
fact, the actress can recall being in a store when she first noticed how people
talk. I heard someone go, Oh for cute! and I turned around and I thought, Is that an actual exclamation? And of
course it is, she says. Its very real. Thats a real wonderful friendly
specific thing up there and I love it.
While she can draw on her college experiences, the show will
certainly present a new side of c**n, who plays Gloria Burgle, Eden Valley,
Minnesotas chief of police and single mother, who finds herself wrapped up in
the murderous mysteries of season three. Its been really fun, she says,
before adding: And its always nice to know that you have a job. Im trying to
get the next job always.
The Leftovers airs
Sundays at 9 pm ET/PT on HBO. Fargo season three premieres Wednesday, April 19
at 10 pm ET/PT on FX.
