‘True Detective’: Jodie Foster To Star In Season 4 Of HBO Anthology Series, Marks First Major Adult TV Role
deadline.comJodie Foster is heading into Night Country.The Silence of the Lambs star is to lead the fourth iteration of HBO’s True Detective franchise, True Detective: Night Country.Foster, who will also exec produce the series, will play Detective Liz Danvers in the series, which comes from writer and director Issa López and executive producer Barry Jenkins.Alan Page Arriaga, exec producer of Starz’ Shining Girls, has also joined Lopez to write.The series is centered around Detectives Liz Danvers and Evangeline Navarro who are looking to solve the case of six men that operate the Tsalal Arctic Research Station vanishing without a trace, when the long winter night falls in Ennis, Alaska.
The pair will have to confront the darkness they carry in themselves and dig into the haunted truths that lie buried under the eternal ice.It marks the first major TV role for Foster as an adult.
The actor, who was 12 when she starred in Taxi Driver, featured in series such as Gunsmoke, My Three Sons and ABC’s TV spinoff of Paper Moon as a child, but has not had a starring role on the small screen since 1975.
She has, however, lent her voice to series such as Frasier, The X-Files and The Simpsons and has directed episodes of television such as Orange Is The New Black, Black Mirror and Tales From The Loop.True Detective, which was created and written by Nic Pizzolatto, ran for three seasons between 2014 and 2019.
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