Emmy Winner Lamorne Morris On Noah Hawley, ‘Fargo’ & Playing Garrett Morris In ‘Saturday Night’

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00:00Now what was your experience like working with Noah in this in this fantastical Marvel universe that he made?

00:06He's one of the greats and he was such a joy to work with on set

00:10He believed in me. He you know took a chance on on casting me for this particular role my first dramatic role

00:17You know here Emmy-nominated. It feels good. You know so thank you to Noah. Yeah. Yeah, I mean

00:23You know I was in Bangkok and in April

00:26We see you pop up on alien season 2

00:30No comment

00:32Would you like to play in that sci-fi?

00:34You're damn right I would

00:36Noah what's up man?

00:38I got nominated baby come on

00:40Help me out

00:42Now the talk of the festival circuit is

00:44Is the SNL

00:46Yes Saturday night

00:48What can you tell us about you're playing a legend there

00:50Yeah I'm playing Garrett Morris

00:52This entire cast from top to bottom

00:54Has me very very hopeful about our

00:56The future of our business

00:58These young actors in this movie are absolutely

01:00Fantastic

01:02Jason Reitman is a maestro

01:04With the way he conducted 80 speaking roles

01:06You know this um

01:08Entire crew was fantastic

01:10So you know hopefully you know

01:12I can't wait for the world to see it because it's really good

01:14Really good film

01:16You're gonna stick to drama or pivot to comedy

01:18You know I'm an actor I wanna do it all

01:20So you know I'll find whatever characters

01:23Are interesting and

01:25You know have fun playing those

01:27I just want you to always have a cat with you

01:29I could but I'm allergic

01:31And then I would die

01:33So that was a fake cat in New Girl?

01:35That was a real one they didn't care

01:37They just gave me medication and said shut your ass up

01:39You're gonna deal with this cat

01:41Thank you congratulations