Bokeem Woodbine is not an actor you'd necessarily expect to see on Fargo, a very good FX series that happens to be rural and midwestern and therefore very white. And the role is not one you'd expect Woodbine to fill. He plays an Afro'd Kansas City mob enforcer with a stereotypically Irish name, Mike Milligan, who travels with two mute henchmen known as the Kitchen Brothers. Starting with his breakout performances in films like Jason's Lyric and HBO's Strapped, Woodbine often played brooding or hot-tempered men who carry guns — mostly criminals, some cops — so that aspect of his Fargo performance isn't new. But everything else is. Mike Milligan is not merely a criminal, but a Coen-esque eccentric who happens to be involved in criminal activities. He has a singsong way of speaking that Woodbine has termed "Milliganese.""Isn't that a minor miracle, given the state of the world today...
- 11/4/2015
- by Matt Zoller Seitz
- Vulture
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