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►WE’RE IN THE MIDDLE OF A JODIE FOSTER RENAISSANCE. THE TWO-TIME Oscar winner is not only starring in one of the hottest limited series on TV right now, HBO’s True Detective: Night Country, but also picked up yet another Oscar nomination for her performance in Netflix’s Nyad. For True Detective, Foster responded to the balance between drama and horror, which she says is partly due to the landscape of where it’s set: Alaska. “That primitive connection with nature and 80 percent of the population is Inuit. You can’t not have the spiritual world. That’s so much a part of their life.” All of those factors make Alaska “fantastic [for storytelling].” And part of the reason why Foster was so excited for True Detective is because mainstream film distributors have “abandoned storytelling” for “franchise films or Marvel movies.” But now, because of this shift, that complex storytelling is available on streaming. “We have these wonderful limited series and long, episodic things, and now people are finally discovering that they can see their films that way too.”
True Detective is your first big foray into television in 40 years. How’s it going?
It’s really the golden moment of streaming. So I feel very lucky to explore things for six hours or eight hours. I mean, that’s just a gift to be able to play with a character like this for that long.
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