Rysdahl talks about being cast in the series
Well, Noah Hawley clearly likes being in the David Rysdahl business, as he also cast you in his upcoming Alien series. Was this in the works, pre-strike?
Yeah, I went over to Thailand for one day of camera tests, and then things shut down. Noah told me after we wrapped on Fargo. He said, "There might be a role for you on Alien," and I grew up on both Alien and Fargo. So if you had told me two years ago that I was going to be in either universe, I would've thought you were crazy, and the idea that I get to play on both playgrounds makes me feel pretty lucky and grateful. And Noah, in a similar fashion to Fargo, takes the movie and asks, "What's the DNA of this? What's the world perspective? What themes are we tackling? What was the original intent of this movie? Let me see if I can play with that in a new way." So he's doing a really interesting job of that on Alien, and it's going to be a very different but very exciting view of what the original movie was.