Martin Freeman attends the National Television Awards at 02 Arena on January 23, 2013 in London, England.
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Sherlock’s Martin Freeman has joined the cast of FX’s upcoming Fargo miniseries. According to The Hollywood Reporter, Freeman will play a small-town insurance salesman who crosses paths with a sleazy con man, played by the previously announced Billy Bob Thornton. It’s not exactly the William H. Macy role, even though that’s what some reports are calling it; FX has said that the show won’t mirror the movie’s plot or characters but will instead just exist in the same Fargo-y universe of snow and murder and what the Coen brothers have called “Minnesota nice.â€