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Previous headliners throughout the series include Matthew McConaughey, Woody Harrelson, Colin Farrell, Vince Vaughn, Rachel McAdams, Taylor Kitsch, Stephen Dorff, and Mahershala Ali. Pick up a copy of the True Detective Series 1-3 DVD box set online at JB and revisit the show from the start.

choose her projects. She won’t accept work just for the sake of staying busy. But she found Night Country’s premise irresistible - as well as its showrunner, writer/director Issa Lopez. “Well, this one’s really a dream come true,” she says, indicating Lopez seated next to her. “I mean, if she wasn’t here, I’d probably say it a little louder. But she is my favourite director I’ve ever worked with. “It really is a blessing. I’ve worked with a lot of people. But I guess it’s kismet. You finally find a person that understands how you can do your best, and I feel like she was able to bring that out in me. And then I got to see her do it with all sorts of other people in different ways, and that was really the great draw of the collaboration. And that really happened from the beginning,” says Foster. Tasked with creating a new story for True Detective , Lopez admits, “When HBO approached me with the question of what would I do with True Detective , I immediately thought I have no [expletive] idea. But instead, I said, ‘I have ideas’. “And I went to my bedroom, sat

STACK caught up with Hollywood icon Jodie Foster and director Issa Lopez to discuss the sinister fourth season of True Detective . Words Gill Pringle F or an award-winning actress who has been working since she was three years old, Jodie Foster surprises us when she

says that True Detective: Night Country was possibly one of the best experiences of her entire career. Yes, like all the other True Detectives, the material is dark, but she came to season four already as a huge fan of the franchise. “I don’t want to say that it was the beginning of streaming, but maybe it was the beginning of my addiction to streaming. So, the series was just one of those things that I binge watched and loved and always return to,” says Foster. Hollywood has been through some massive upheavals since her first role in 1975. “’75 was a long time ago, yeah,” she smiles, wistfully. “And then I lived in the feature world and we’ve come to an amazing moment, I think, in cinema history. And that’s the time that real narrative is really on streaming. I think that’s where some of the best work is being done. And it gives you an opportunity to explore characters – without necessarily having it be a slave to the genre.” Set in the fictional town of Ennis, Alaska, this latest season follows the investigation behind the disappearance of eight men from a research station leading into supernatural territory. Foster

down, and I thought what was it about that first season of True Detective that hit us all so hard? That stays in our memory in spite of the deluge of stories out there? And I thought it was the atmosphere. There was something

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and former professional boxer Kali Reis co-star as Detectives Liz Danvers and Evangeline Navarro. Marking her first adult TV role, and her first starring role in a TV series since 1975, Foster describes Chief Danvers as awful - an “Alaska Karen”. Despite the freezing conditions, she relished the creative process. “Having six episodes allows you to bring in other voices than the traditional voices that we might see in features. So, I was super excited to be in this world - and, of course, I’ve directed and produced in the television world a lot too,” she adds. At 61 years old, the two-time Oscar winner is in that rare position of being able to pick and

about that southern gothic that stayed with us. And something about these two characters that

• True Detective: Night Country is out Jul 10

are so different, in this world that was in itself a third character; this endless landscape where anything can happen. And I kept those. I kept the characters. I kept the landscape. I kept that corner of America that we don’t often see. “And I just turned it on its head and created these two female characters who are so different, trying to solve this very, very eerie crime in the backdrop of this endless landscape. And Night Country was born,” recalls the Mexican director.

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