Captain Robert Daly, who was the picture of toxic masculinity in Black Mirror. Ed Blumquist in Fargo, the dutiful husband ready to sacrifice everything for his wife, Peggy, played by his real-life partner, Kirsten Dunst. ![]() That’s ironic considering how big-city culture commentators love to obsessively analyze Plemons’s repertoire of roles. People who don’t “get” small towns like to label them as simple places, so the other half of his job is selling why these stories are worthwhile. Finding their subtleties is half the battle. Over the past two decades, Plemons has become known for capturing the soul of his characters, particularly when they’re living in these little pockets of the world. But most of the people are good and bad most of the time.” He adds, “You may already be done with the article, but I just felt like passing it along anyway.” “Now Trouble, like most all little towns, has some people who are bad all the time, and it has some people who are good all the time. It’s why five days after we speak, Plemons follows up with me in a personal email with the exact lyrics. It’s very easy to make a caricature out of someone’s reality, so yeah. ![]() Misquoted lyrics are typically nothing to fret over, but Jesse is a small-town boy. “I'm gonna butcher it, but ‘Some people are good most of the time, some people are bad some of the time, but most people are good and bad all the time.’ And I just…I think that’s true.” “I can't remember exactly what he says,” Plemons mutters over Zoom, looking upward, trying to remember this folk song from the ’60s. Steady and studied like a museum on one very particular subject. ![]() Specifically, he recommends the 1963 album Trouble Is a Lonesome Town. Jesse Plemons has been on a Lee Hazlewood kick lately.
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