‘Fargo’: Ewan McGregor Reveals How They Filmed Scenes Featuring Both Ray And Emmit Stussy

“Fargo” Season 3 star Ewan McGregor revealed that filming scenes involving both his characters, Ray and Emmit Stussy, was a little complicated.

In a recent interview with TV Insider, McGregor said that he worked with two body doubles when shooting scenes featuring both Stussy brothers. “I had two other actors to help me, one to play Ray when I was Emmit and one to play Emmit when I was Ray,” the Scottish actor said. “First we’d rehearse the scene with me playing both men. They’d watch how I played both men and try to mimic that when we were shooting.”

When asked which part he would tackle first, McGregor answered: “Ray, because he took longer to get. And it took me about two-and-a-half hours in makeup to get ready for Ray versus about one-and-a-half for Emmit. If there were any wide shots or special-effects shots that had both brothers in them, we would shoot Ray’s parts first.”

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Although Emmit tricked his younger brother Ray into taking their late father’s Corvette instead of his stamp collection, McGregor said that he doesn’t consider Emmit as the bad brother and Ray as the good brother. “None of the characters on the show are strictly good or bad, apart from Varga (David Thewlis), who is clearly evil and torturing Emmit,” McGregor said. “It’s not that simplistic. And, when you’re an actor, you don’t set out to play a bad person or a good person. You set out to play merely a person, since they do all kinds of different things.”

While he doesn’t see Emmit as evil, McGregor admitted that he enjoyed portraying Ray more than his brother. “Because they are both very different, they are satisfying in different ways,” McGregor told The Hollywood Reporter. “But in terms of liking them, I like Ray [better]. … What’s interesting that we’re doing this during this Trump era is that Ray has become the sort of embodiment of love. He’s got a soul and a heart. … . So, Ray is more fun to play because it’s much more fun to be in love than it is to be someone like Trump.”

Although McGregor favors Ray over Emmit, the “Trainspotting” actor pointed out that he also finds Emmit interesting to play, especially during Donald Trump’s presidency. “It’s quite interesting with the whole Trump thing because I feel sometimes there’s moments that I’m channeling like, his thin skin and the way he can react when (something bad) goes down,” McGregor told The Canadian Press.

“Fargo” Season 3 finale, titled “Somebody to Love,” airs tonight at 10 p.m. EDT on FX.