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00:00I think that's about the Minnesota Nights being such a huge part of it, right, because
00:08if you think about, I mean the movie, if you take away the setting of Minnesota and how
00:14people talk and how people present themselves there, the story is really, really fucking
00:18dark.
00:19Yeah.
00:20And so I think that element of where it is taking place is a huge part of the comedic
00:26timing and the moments that could be unbearably dark and make them have this sprinkling of
00:31incredible humor.
00:32You look at that scene where, you know, the yarn is moving, all this stuff, and it's terrifying.
00:39Scary as hell.
00:40But then it's funny.
00:41Yeah, because they start talking, right?
00:42It's like the minute those guys start talking and it's like Dumb and Dumber, kind of.
00:49I know.
00:52I'm guessing there was a perp in the commode.
01:03Put this in here.
01:04Yeah.
01:05Okay.
01:08Okay.
01:09Now I'm going to twist it.
01:11Yeah?
01:12Yeah.
01:16It's okay.
01:17Can you hold it?
01:18Yeah.
01:22Where'd you learn to do all this?
01:26It's not my first getaway.
01:29Uh-huh.
01:30Uh-huh.
01:31Oh, stop.
01:32Okay.
01:33Okay.
01:34Can you at least tell me your name?
01:35Okay.
01:36You're going to be okay.
01:37Uh-huh.
01:38Where's the second fella?
01:39By the front door.
01:40Breathe it.
01:41Breathe it.
01:42Breathe it.
01:43Breathe it.
01:44Breathe it.
01:45Breathe it.
01:46Breathe it.
01:47Breathe it.
01:48Breathe it.
01:49Breathe it.
01:50Breathe it.
01:52Breathe it.
01:57Welcome to the actor's side today.
02:00It is hard to believe already when I say this, but she is a four-time Emmy nominee, and it
02:06seems like only yesterday we were talking about Ted Lasso, for which you have three
02:12nominations and supporting actress in a comedy series, but you're moving on up as George
02:17Jefferson says, and you're now in the Outstanding Lead Actress in a limited series, anthology,
02:26or television movie, all of those things, and this is a limited series, Fargo.
02:32Welcome, Juno Temple.
02:34I'm so happy to have you here on the actor's side.
02:38I'm really happy to be here.
02:40Yeah.
02:41We never got to do this during Ted Lasso, but I always wanted to, and it never worked.
02:46We've talked virtually during that series and all of that.
02:49Do you miss it?
02:50Of course I do.
02:51Absolutely.
02:52Everyone was shocked.
02:53It's three years and out, three seasons and out.
02:56We thought that would go on forever.
02:57Yeah.
02:58I mean, I think, but sometimes it's good to put something on a pause or maybe end it forever
03:06whilst it's on a really high note, and I think there was something about Ted Lasso that Jason
03:12had mapped it out in his brain as kind of a three-season thing, and so if it was to
03:18come back in the future, it would really need to sort of be rethought.
03:21It has to come from the heart with him with this show, and that's why we love it so much,
03:25right?
03:26Exactly.
03:27Is that it comes from the heart, truly.
03:28Yeah.
03:29But I do miss it.
03:30I miss it a lot, and that was something that was actually really important, I think, with
03:32the transition from doing Ted Lasso to going on to do Fargo is I had about three days in
03:37between wrapping Ted Lasso, and then I had to pack an apartment and then fly, so I wrapped
03:42on a Friday, Saturday to pack up an apartment, and flew Sunday to Calgary and started costume
03:49fittings and hair and makeup tests and camera tests pretty much the minute I landed and
03:54then had to be on camera by the Thursday or Friday of that week, so it was a quick turnaround,
03:59and I think that helped with the kind of grieving process of Ted Lasso for me because it never
04:04felt like it was a complete ending.
04:07Not for your character.
04:08I think there's much more that could be done that you could do with her.
04:14Do you think so?
04:15Oh, I would love, I mean, it would be gorgeous, but it would have to be, I can't wrap my head
04:21around the idea of doing it without the full team.
04:23Right.
04:24You know?
04:25I mean, they did talk about spinoffs and things to keep it going.
04:28Would that be something that would interest you?
04:31I just don't know how I would do it without the team.
04:34It's such a team show, you know, and I think, I miss Hannah on a weekly basis, I miss seeing
04:42her all the time, but you know, great things happen when a show is a success and doors
04:47open for people and it takes people to amazing places, but it does mean it's harder to connect
04:52with your friends sometimes, so I miss her a lot, but we do stay in touch a lot, too,
04:57and whenever she's here and whenever I'm there, we, you know, make time.
05:01And yeah, I miss playing Keeley Jones because she was such a ray of sunshine, you know?
05:08Yeah, she really, I know, right?
05:09Yeah, she really was, and she almost became like a friend, so I do miss her and I think
05:14about her sometimes when I'm going into life and walking into a situation, I do have these
05:19moments of thinking, like, how would Keeley handle this, you know?
05:22So that's really precious, too.
05:24You know, when I look, though, I mean, you know, you have been in so many kind of iconic
05:27things when you mentioned the movies and the things, Notes on a Scandal, which, by
05:31the way, I stole, I read a column here called Notes on a Season, and I got that from that
05:36movie.
05:37Wow, that's cool.
05:38Yeah, I said Notes on a Scandal, I had Notes on a Season talking about award seasons, and
05:42so it lives to this day, thanks to that movie that you were in.
05:45That was my first movie.
05:46It was your first movie, right?
05:47Yeah, that was my first audition that when I told my parents I wanted to be an actor,
05:50they were like, okay, well, we found out about this open audition, go see how many other
05:55girls want to be actresses.
05:56It's not bad for a first movie to be opposite Judi Dench and Kate Blanchett.
05:59Kate Blanchett and Bill Nighy, Richard Eyre, I was like, whoa, yeah, Judi Dench taught
06:05me what a wild line was, because I remember they asked me to do a wild line, and I was
06:09like, what does that mean?
06:11You know, without any context, that sounds like you can really go rogue.
06:14Yeah, so I had, yeah, that was, that was a wild.
06:18How did that come about for you, that first?
06:20So I went to this open audition, I went to, I don't remember how my parents heard about
06:24it, but when I initially told them that I really, really did want to be an actress,
06:29they were both a bit, I guess, frightened, because, you know.
06:36Julian Temple is your father, so he's no slouch in this business.
06:40Yeah, no, truly, and also knows it from the other side of the camera, and so knows that,
06:44you know, as an actor or an actress, you get told no for certain reasons, and sometimes
06:51it really hurts, and you'll, yeah, so it can be about appearance, it can be about,
06:57you know, it's different things, and it can affect you, but it also, you have to want
07:01to do this with every ounce of passion you have in your body, because then you can kind
07:05of take the hit, but let the drip roll off, you know.
07:09And so my parents were like, okay, if you really do want to do this, here's this open
07:12audition, and my best friend in high school at the time, we went to London to a big warehouse
07:18somewhere in, like, Hackney, and there was a long line of people waiting to go in, and
07:22I had no idea what was going to happen when we went inside, and then it was just, like,
07:25a picture, and then write down your name and your address.
07:28Yeah.
07:29So that was it, and the next day, I got a phone call saying that Richard Eyre would
07:34like me to come and read, and could they bike a script over to where I was, and I was like,
07:38oh, my God, they're going to bike a script?
07:40What is it?
07:41Ha ha!
07:42This is so exciting, and so the script got biked over, and I read the script, and then
07:47I was told what scenes were the audition scenes, and I learned the lines, and I think I had
07:51about a week, and then I went to the audition space, and it was one of those situations
07:55where you can hear the audition happening whilst you're waiting outside, which still
07:59to this day, like, literally makes me shake like this thinking about it.
08:03Auditioning is so important, but it is terrifying still every time for me, and I think because
08:09I got so nervous hearing these really great auditions ahead of me, I went in, and I had
08:14to have some kind of a breakdown in the audition, and the nerves were my very good friend in
08:19that experience because I had a real good nervous breakdown, and, oh, yeah, I had a
08:24really, I let it out, and then about, I don't know, another week or ten days after that,
08:29I was back at my parents' house in the country, and my mum came running, I was sitting in
08:34the car because we were going to go into the local town and go do some grocery shopping,
08:37and my mum came running out in tears, and I was like, oh, my God, what's happened?
08:40She was like, do you know, baby, you booked the job, and so, yeah, I got the job, and
08:46then that was the summer I was about to turn 16, and so I also was an adult in the UK and
08:51never had to do school.
08:53Oh, nice.
08:55Yeah, and then I went and shot that movie over the summer.
08:57It was amazing.
08:59And you did many others in your home country.
09:01Atonement.
09:02That was my next audition.
09:03I booked both of my first auditions.
09:05I'll never forget that, too.
09:06That was nominated for Best Picture.
09:08Saoirse, too.
09:09Also, she was nominated.
09:10I remember that.
09:11That was so exciting.
09:12Unbelievable.
09:13I remember my mum going, it goes downhill at some point, baby, and I did not book my
09:18third audition, so.
09:19So where did the other Boleyn girl come in?
09:22Wow, that was a while ago now, too.
09:24These are all, like, big movies that you've been in, and I haven't even mentioned Batman.
09:30I haven't even mentioned The Dark Knight with Christopher Nolan.
09:34Yeah.
09:35That has to be.
09:36So cool.
09:37Was that cool?
09:38Yeah.
09:39It was the coolest set at that point in my life that I had ever been on, and I remember
09:42when they said, cut, and we were filming downtown LA, walking down a sidewalk about to go into
09:48Selina Kyle's apartment.
09:50And when they said, cut, reset, the whole world went backwards.
09:54And I remember being like, oh, my God.
09:56Oh, my God.
09:57This is all the Batman set?
09:59And it completely, it blew my mind at how much of it had been created for that movie.
10:06I was like, that is some incredible attention to detail right there.
10:09And Maleficent, Mistress of Evil, that had to be fun.
10:13It was great fun.
10:14I mean, I got to work with, you know, Imelda Staunton and Leslie Manville.
10:17And the first one, we got to be on wires in wetsuits with the dots all over our face.
10:22And, like, the in-between takes, the three of us hanging out like potato sacks.
10:26I was like, this is amazing.
10:28You know, I'm learning all of these incredible things from these truly brilliant, iconic
10:33English actresses, and then also laughing ourselves stupid about, like, front wedgies.
10:38Yeah, that was magic, too.
10:40I mean, just amazing.
10:42And now I have to say Fargo, which this is, I think, the fifth incarnation of Fargo.
10:49Were you a Fargo fan?
10:51Did you watch the series?
10:52Did you see the movie, obviously?
10:54I grew up with Coen Brothers movies.
10:56I had seen Fargo a lot of times.
10:58It's one of my favorite films ever.
11:00And, yes, I was very familiar with the TV show and had loved the TV show.
11:04And I'd also, I remember when the first season was coming out, thinking, like, how is this going to work?
11:08How are they going to do some sort of continuation of that movie and that tone and that kind of, oh, my God.
11:15And then it blew my mind.
11:16I thought the first season was so brilliantly woven together as a continuation from the world that was the movie of Fargo.
11:24And that continued season to season, you know.
11:28And I think from an actor's perspective, too, just watching the performances throughout the different installments of Fargo and the movie,
11:35it's like some of the greatest acting ever of all time.
11:39So I think, yes, I was a diehard fan and very familiar with all of the above.
11:44Yeah, this one is, it's different than the other four seasons, definitely.
11:48Very much so.
11:49But a real homage to the movie.
11:50It was a complete homage to the movie.
11:53I mean, I wouldn't even have wanted to watch it had I not seen the movie.
11:56I would have missed so much.
11:57I wouldn't have known really.
11:59The yarn and how the sink is set up kind of the same.
12:01The whole sequence is so, it was so brilliant.
12:04And what a cool thing to get to experience, kind of reimagining those moments that I'd watched so many times in a movie, you know.
12:10And getting to do that.
12:11That's so cool.
12:12It was a pinch-me moment, for real.
12:13Yeah.
12:14Yeah, yeah, yeah.
12:15I asked Noah.
12:16He was in here for the other series I do, Behind the Lens, a few weeks ago.
12:19And I said to him, do the Coen brothers, what's your relationship there?
12:25He says, oh, you know, every now and then I talk to them and they're cool with it.
12:29But it's his baby.
12:31Yeah, it is.
12:32As it is.
12:33But it's very much an homage.
12:34They never lose sight of where it came from.
12:36And what a great part.
12:38Don't.
12:39I mean, two parts, I should say.
12:40Yeah.
12:41But you play Dorothy Dot Lion and also Nadine Tillman.
12:45Yeah.
12:46She is a mother, a nurturer, and she's also, she's going to survive anything.
12:52Yeah, she's a survivalist.
12:53And she's also a feral cat.
12:55Yeah.
12:56And I think, honestly, I'm so grateful in such a profound way that these women were brought into my life.
13:07I just think characters like that don't come along very often.
13:10Right.
13:11And getting to inhabit them, you learn so much.
13:13And I loved every second of it.
13:16And it wasn't easy.
13:17It was hard work, as it should be.
13:20But it was really, truly one of the most fulfilling and beautiful experiences of my life to date.
13:27And I think I knew when it was becoming a reality that I was going to get to be a part of this and play Dot and learn about her.
13:37And I knew that it was going to be one of the greatest gifts an actress could ever receive.
13:42And I think that also made it really scary.
13:45But at the same time, why would you do things if you weren't a little bit afraid of them?
13:49Right.
13:50And I think it was also about having seen these incredible performances throughout these different chapters of Fargo.
13:56And just knowing that every aspect of these chapters from costume to props to hair and makeup to, you know, lighting to camera to directing to performing to stunts.
14:12All of it is at the top level of film and TV making.
14:17And so you know that you're going to be working in a space that you walk into a set and every piece of wallpaper is going to matter for some reason.
14:26Wow.
14:27And the way light is set and the way the smoke is being puffed into a room is to create a certain feeling or thought or atmospheric moment that you didn't even know was going to be heightened by that.
14:39And I think the dialogue and the way Noah writes these incredible different episodes is like you're salivating to start giving it a try on its feet and you can't wait.
14:50And as actors in it, we were all so excited to get each episode.
14:55It was like we would eat it so quickly and read through and just want to discuss with each other every element of it.
15:03And so I think that Dot is one of the most beautiful, brave, loving women I've ever gotten to walk around in the shoes of.
15:11And I am so, so grateful for her.
15:15She's certainly complex.
15:17Oh, man.
15:18What about the accent?
15:19That took a minute.
15:21I'm wondering because that's a very particular thing.
15:24Oh, yes.
15:25You're living in the shadows of Frances McDormand and everybody else.
15:29Yes.
15:30So I got lucky and I got to work with the most incredible dialect coach who also worked with Frances McDormand in the movie and has done each installment since.
15:39Liz Hemelstein, who is his like she's a ninja warrior.
15:43She's amazing because I was also shooting Ted Lasso.
15:46So Keely, who's kind of, you know, Essex accents.
15:48Then there's Juno.
15:50And then we started to create Dot.
15:52And it took a minute.
15:53It really it took a minute.
15:54I think I started about six weeks before going.
15:56And I remember having my brothers over for dinner and trying out the accent.
16:00Oh, really?
16:01They just looked at me.
16:02How long have you got till you start?
16:05Oh, no.
16:06Oh, no.
16:07Oh, no.
16:08Yeah.
16:09But then when it clicks, you don't want to stop.
16:11And so then I would start doing it in like coffee shops or when we went to the airport and just test it out to see if people thought I was really weird or if they didn't bat an eyelid.
16:19Fool anybody.
16:20But then I stayed in the accent the entire time we shot, actually.
16:23That's one thing that I found to be really important because the accent is complicated and musically so specific.
16:31If you trip up on an accent in the middle of a take and it's normally somebody else's coverage and it's a brilliant moment and you fluff the accent, it's kind of like a beat when you are walking along the street and you trip and you get that weird hot flush.
16:44Right.
16:45Same feeling.
16:46And then you forget your next line and then you ruin the take for everybody.
16:48So if you practice the accent enough that when you mess it up, you don't think twice about it.
16:53It was just like you keep going.
16:54Yeah.
16:55I think that can be a way to just make sure that you're not ruining somebody else's great moment or a take that's really going brilliantly and things like that.
17:03So staying in the accent is really important for me.
17:05That was good.
17:06Well, certainly you did it.
17:08The evidence is your.
17:09Also, David, who plays Wayne, is from Minnesota.
17:12So I had a good team partner who could call me out if I was really screwed up.
17:16Oh, that's good right there.
17:17Yeah.
17:18Well, we know John Hamm's not from Minnesota.
17:20What was it like working with him?
17:22It was interesting because I spent the whole chapter running away from him and trying not to be found by him.
17:29So I actually didn't work with him a lot.
17:31And then when we did cross paths for the next few episodes, I think we worked together in total maybe five, six days.
17:38Wow.
17:39And they were hardcore and they were.
17:42Yeah.
17:43They were also brilliant and they were brilliant because they were filled with a space that was really respected and it felt safe enough to go to the dark places that we needed to go to.
17:52And so working with him was a real pleasure because he was very respectful when we had to do all that stuff.
17:59Yeah.
18:00It's wild.
18:01So I have to ask you about a couple of things we haven't seen yet that I can't wait.
18:06Again, on a very big scale.
18:08Hollywood movie Venom.
18:09Last Dance.
18:10You're playing Dr.
18:11Payne.
18:12Yeah, I am.
18:13And I think that got delayed because of the strike.
18:15Strike.
18:16Yeah.
18:17I think I did one day.
18:18One day and then boom, shut down.
18:20Yep, exactly.
18:21Is that bad when you've prepared and you're ready to go and then, you know, got to stop and come back?
18:26But it felt like it was for a good purpose, you know?
18:28And so it wasn't like, it was a camaraderie situation.
18:33And I think sometimes taking a little pause is not always going to be a bad thing.
18:38It meant that we ended up being able to make a wig for me, which was cool.
18:41Because my curly hair, if it gets straightened all the time, can take a real beating.
18:45Yeah.
18:46But it was, it just meant that we were excited to come back.
18:48Right.
18:49And it was fun.
18:50We had fun.
18:51It was like.
18:52Tom Hardy.
18:53Yeah.
18:54And Clark Baker, who I have a lot of really great scenes with.
18:57And Chiwetel.
18:58And then, again, these, talk about big sets.
19:01Oh my God.
19:02I was like, wow, this is a big movie.
19:04That's what I mean.
19:05These are big videos.
19:06Big movie.
19:08Which is, you know, I mean, I've done a few days on things like that.
19:12But this was, you know, I got to be a part of the whole thing, really.
19:14And then also, you know, we got to go to Spain and film out in the desert in Spain.
19:19And seeing, you know, all of this space.
19:21And then you realize how much of it is taken over by the movie again.
19:24You're like, wow.
19:25The attention to detail here is just extraordinary.
19:28And you just told me as you walked in here, you just got back from three months shooting.
19:35Good luck.
19:36Have fun.
19:37Don't die.
19:38Yeah.
19:39That's a great title.
19:40It's a great title.
19:41Gore Verbinski.
19:42Gore Verbinski.
19:43Yeah.
19:44I hold a real big space in my heart for him.
19:46I had such a great time working with him.
19:49And the whole cast, man.
19:50It was a killer cast.
19:51And I think it's going to be a really kick-ass movie.
19:54It's kind of unlike anything I've ever read before.
19:56You are on fire, I have to tell you.
19:58Well, congratulations on yet another Emmy nomination.
20:02And this one is the first time in that category.
20:04And let me tell you something.
20:05Limited series?
20:07That's a crazy, crazy category.
20:09There were so many good ones this year.
20:11And can we just talk about the other women that are a part of this?
20:14I mean.
20:15When I just saw my name in that list, I was like, oh my gosh.
20:18Yeah.
20:19It's pretty impressive.
20:20The people that have been inspiring me ever.
20:22Jodie Foster.
20:23I know.
20:24It's very good.
20:25Well deserved.
20:26Thank you for joining us on the actor's side today.
20:29Juno Temple.
20:30Thank you for having me.