By Jamie RubyColin Hanks plays Duluth police officer Gus Grimly on FX's popular new series
Fargo. Grimly's life is changed after his encounter with Lorne Malvo (Billy Bob Thorton). Choosing to let him drive off after pulling him over is a decision that has plagued him. When fate brings them back together he will have to confront that decision.
Hanks recently talked to the media about his work on
Fargo and what fans can expect moving forward.
Hanks talked to SciFi Vision about preparing for the role. "Really the only preparation that I did was just working on the Minnesota accent. That was really it. Gus is not necessarily - well, he is not a good cop really. He is sort of out of his depth, out of his element, so there wasn't really any police training that I had to do.
"In fact, I sort of specifically did things poorly. You train, if you play enough cops, eventually you say, "I know how to hold the weapon; I know how to do this," and I sort of undid all of that to make Gus look a little bit more out of his element, but the only real preparation I did was work with the dialect coach to try and get a little bit of his accent down. We didn't want to go too big on the accent, but we wanted to make sure that there were some subtle moments in his speech that would indicate he definitely has an accent."