Joe Keery feels at home

"I'm currently looking for a couch for my apartment," Joe Keery said as he sat down. down on a rather worn L-shape, giving it once again. The cut in question isn't in the running - it belongs to the Brooklyn photo studio where Keery just wrapped filming - but when you're living in a "sterile" apartment in New York, seven months after moving to town, couch la hunting can consume your thoughts.

Although he admits to enjoying living in his empty space, Keery has every intention of properly settle into his new home – he's just been a little busy. The 31-year-old, who became world famous at the age of 23 when Netflix premiered 'Stranger Things', has just wrapped up a turbulent year of filming a series of new consecutive projects, the first of which begins this year. autumn. It's a new stage in the actor's life, as he prepares to wrap up the next and final season of 'Stranger Things' (when it can be filmed, Hollywood will strike depending) and usher in a new chapter of his career. This whole moment felt like the right time for him to leave Los Angeles, where he lived when he wasn't in Georgia for the show, and head back east. (He's from Boston.)

"I was looking for a change in my life," Keery said, stretching on the couch. “I had been working [non-stop] for about a year: from last June until about next June, I was on the road. I kind of felt like my time in LA was coming to an end and I just wanted to change that for various reasons. And New York has always been a place I wanted to live. I really miss a walkable city. I love putting on my headphones and walking around. »

The anonymity that indulgence demands might not last long with the laid-back actor. In November, we will see him in the fifth installment of "Fargo" on FX, alongside Jon Hamm and Juno Temple. He stars in the independent film "Finalmente L'alba" with Lily James and Willem Dafoe, which will premiere at the Venice Film Festival in a few weeks, and we will see him later alongside Liam Neeson in the science film -fiction “Cold Storage.”

He was drawn to "Fargo" by his respect for its creator, Noah Hawley, as well as for In this way, he links dark comedy to darkness. The new world "Fargo" is set in 2019 and introduces viewers to Dot, played by Juno Temple, a housewife from North Dakota with a secret past that leads to her becoming a wanted person. Keery plays Gator Tillman, the local sheriff's son, played by Jon Hamm.

“It was clear that this was a pretty deeply conflicted character. Right away. And deep down there are major issues with dads," Keery says of Gator.

To create a father-son bond, Hamm and Keery relied on hockey and attended several Calgary Flames games. together during the six months they spent filming in the Canadian city.

"We had a lot of downtime, we watched a lot of football games, we went to dinner and stuff," he says. "It was just a real, real pleasure to be with him. [Jon,] Sam Spruell and I shot a lot of scenes together, and having these two guys, who between them have years and years of experience, that's the best part of all this work. Meeting the other actors, meeting people, talking and hearing their story and experience. I love that. I have I feel like I can learn so much from others, so I just tried to keep my eyes open and learn from it."

Keery's motivations for choosing each of the projects stemmed from a desire to try something new and different from "Stranger Things," but now that he's on the other side of his year and settling into his new home, he's re-examining things.

"It changed the way I feel like I approach choice or pursuit things in the future,” he says. "I really focus on things that are exciting and challenging and I'm 100% focused on one thing at a time." Not that it wasn't his approach before, but rather now: "I feel like I've learned a...