How Juno Temple Transformed for Fargo

Joke to Juno Temple that she has to do an entire interview in the voice of Dot Lyon—the fiercely competent housewife she plays in the electric fifth season of Fargo—and she will not miss a beat. “Okay,” the actor says on this week’s Little Gold Men, elongating the o like a proper Minnesotan. “I had this great cheat sheet for a collection of words that would get you back into the accent. One that will stay with me probably forever was ‘Barb’s large apartment.’”

The accent, of course, is only part of what makes Dot one of this TV season’s most compelling characters. The central character in this installment of Noah Hawley’s anthology is a seemingly normal suburban mom with a dark secret. She’s fast, she’s scrappy, she can make a weapon out of anything—oh, and she can whip up a mean pile of pancakes too. “Bisquick did a Fargo limited-edition powder,” Temple marvels. “And they had a recipe for ‘Dot’s Biscuits’ on the back. I was like, Oh my God, that’s really cool.” Listen on for Temple’s take on entering the Fargo universe, the love story between her character and Jennifer Jason Leigh’s formidable Lorraine, and whether she thinks she could actually craft a homemade blowtorch, if push came to shove.

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