![]() ![]() Kali Reis, left, and Jodie Foster in "True Detective: Night Country." Michele K. Though, none of their secrets turn out to be as unsettling as the ones contained by the wind-swept, frozen lakes and snowy crags surrounding the village, where mysterious occurrences are commonplace. From Navarro’s haunted sister (Aka Niviâna) to the town’s father-son police duo (John Hawkes and Finn Bennett), it seems everyone in the small town is plagued by some unspoken, past trauma. One of the only clues to what led to their disappearance is the severed tongue of an Iñupiaq woman, which fuels Navarro’s desire to reinvestigate the cold case murder.īut the research team’s whereabouts, which turn out to be particularly ghoulish, aren’t the only mystery to unravel, with all of the Ennis residents keeping confidences of their own. Season four opens with a teaser of the mysterious occurrence that will keep Navarro and police chief Liz Danvers (Foster) busy throughout the six-episode run: A group of scientists running a shadowy lab on the outskirts of Ennis, a small oil-producing town north of the Arctic Circle, vanish under the shield of polar night. I’m a Wampanoag, Cape Verdean woman: We’re loud when we need to be.”Īppropriately enough, Reis’ “True Detective” character, Evangeline Navarro, also refuses to be silenced. You just put your head down and work.’ That’s not where I come from. ![]() In the newest chapter of “True Detective,” which premieres Sunday on HBO and Max, she stars as an Iñupiaq state trooper who is haunted by the unsolved murder of a local Native woman.ĭrawing a parallel between the worlds of professional fighting and acting, she added, “With boxing, it’s kind of, like, ‘You get this opportunity, you have to be quiet. In her first feature, 2022’s “ Catch the Fair One,” which she co-wrote with director Josef Kubota Wladyka, she played a boxer with a background similar to her own, who will stop at nothing to save her sister from a sex-trafficking ring. In her very brief time in front of the camera, Reis - a two-spirit, Seaconke Wampanoag and Cape Verdean actor, advocate and world champion boxer - has made a name for herself in projects that grapple with the crisis of missing and murdered Indigenous women. Set amid the frozen landscape of remote Alaska, “True Detective: Night Country” is a disturbing look at long-ignored trauma and a prescient reminder that, as Reis said, “Indigenous stories are not just in the past.” In the latest chapter of the HBO series, starring Jodie Foster and Kali Reis, creator, director and series newcomer Issa López (“Tigers Are Not Afraid”) holds up a mirror to the ongoing epidemic of unanswered violence targeting Indigenous women. ![]() Over the decade-spanning four seasons of “True Detective,” a rotating cast of stars and creators have investigated crimes that reflect truths about the real world. ![]()
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