Chris Rock on Joining Fargo and Avoiding ‘the Eddie Murphy Handbook’ for Black Comics

Plus, creator Noah Hawley talks expanding the FX series' audience on Hulu

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For Chris Rock, who has spent his career trying to avoid what he calls “the Eddie Murphy handbook” that Hollywood has for breakout Black comedians, Fargo was the perfect opportunity.

Season 4 of FX’s anthology crime series, inspired by the 1996 film, is set in 1950 Kansas City, where the head of the Black crime family (Rock’s Loy Cannon) trades youngest sons with the head of the Italian mafia in an effort to help keep the peace between them.

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