“Is that Ewan McGregor?” is probably something everyone who's watched the Fargo season three trailer has asked. It’s the hair that does it. There’s no mistaking the Scottish actor’s face, twinkling eyes and cheeky grin as brothers Emmit and Ray Stussey. But, with McGregor sporting loose curls as one and a balding mullet as one as the other, there’s also no mistaking just how different a new set of locks makes him look.
This isn’t the first time the versatile star has mixed things up in the hair department. In fact, his career is filled with everything from close-cropped Edinburgh junkie chic to those Phantom Menace tresses that were memorable in all the wrong ways.
In preparation for his latest follicular foray in Fargo, here’s the list you didn’t know you needed - a guide to the never-ending gift that is Ewan McGregor’s many, many different hairstyles.
The curls! The curls!
Ewan McGregor in 'Lipstick on Your Collar', his first starring role. Source: Channel 4 Television Production
Let’s not ask questions about this one
Ewan McGregor in 'Blue Juice', defying the laws of hair gravity. Source: Skreba Films
Chooses short, functional and the kind of hairstyle that will haunt you for two decades
Ewan McGregor in 'Trainspotting'. Source: Channel Four Films
So. Much. Austen. Fluff.
Ewan McGregor and Gwyneth Paltrow in 'Emma'. Source: Miramax
A hairstyle less ordinary
Ewan McGregor and Cameron Diaz in 'A Life Less Ordinary'. Source: Channel Four Films
Blondes have more fun
Ewan McGregor in 'Velvet Goldmine'. Source: Channel Four Films
The force isn’t strong, but the rat’s tail is long
Ewan McGregor in 'Star Wars: Episode I - The Phantom Menace', but you already knew that. Source: Lucasfilm
A singing, hat-wearing Ewan is a happy Ewan
Ewan McGregor in 'Moulin Rouge!' Source: 20th Century Fox
The almost Sir Alec Guinness
Ewan McGregor in 'Star Wars: Episode III - Revenge of the Sith'. Source: Lucasfilm
Would you like a massive moustache with that? Yes? Good
Ewan McGregor in 'Miss Potter'. Source: BBC Films
I have the tallest fringe! No, I have the tallest fringe!
Ewan McGregor and Colin Farrell doing follicular battle in 'Cassandra’s Dream'. Source: Wild Bunch
Ewan is the best thing about this film; Ewan’s hair is the second best thing
Ewan McGregor in 'Jack the Giant Slayer'. Source: Warner Bros
When Meryl’s in the film, you’d best look serious
Ewan McGregor and Abigail Breslin in 'August: Osage County'. Source: The Weinstein Company
No, we don’t know why Ewan is in A Million Ways to Die in the West, but he is
Ewan McGregor in 'A Million Ways to Die in the West'. Source: Universal
Hey look, it’s dusty Jesus Ewan
Ewan McGregor in 'Last Days in the Desert'. Source: Mockingbird Pictures
Lookin’ smooth
Don Cheadle and Ewan McGregor in 'Miles Ahead'. Source: Sony Pictures Classics
With that hair, of course he’s playing a villain
Ewan McGregor in 'Jane Got a Gun'. Source: Transmission Films
What’s worse - getting turned into a candlestick or this wig?
Ewan McGregor in 'Beauty and the Beast'. Source: DIsney
An all-new season 4 Fargo story will premiere with two weeks of double episodes, beginning 8.30pm Thursday 8 October on SBS. Episodes will continue weekly at 9.30pm from Thursday 22 October. New episodes will be available at SBS On Demand each week on the same day as broadcast. Relive the first three standalone seasons of Fargo now at SBS On Demand.
Missed season three? Start with the first episode at SBS On Demand:
