Larry Sellers (Jesse Flanagan)

Character Analysis

The kid who plays Larry Sellers had the easiest job of any actor ever: all he had to do was sit still and look bored while Walter and The Dude yelled at him. Well, maybe not: who could keep a straight face while John Goodman is doing his crazy, threatening fake-lawyer rant? That's gotta take some acting chops.

Larry is a dorky kid whose homework The Dude finds wedged in the passenger seat of his car. Walter realizes that Larry's dad is a legendary television writer and decides to visit Larry to wring a confession out of him and to meet his father. It turns out that Larry never stole Bunny's ransom money because there was no money to steal. It remains unclear why Larry's homework was in The Dude's car, or why Larry's dad is in an iron lung in the living room. Just one of those typical Coen details. One thing is clear, though: watching Larry impassively watch Walter bash in the windshield of a sports car is one of the funniest moments in the movie.