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Anna Lambe on Filming ‘True Detective: Night Country’ in Frigid, Dark Iceland: “I Was Snug as a Bug in a Rug”


The Iqualuit, Nunavut-raised actor is used to the perma-dark and icy menace of Arctic winters that co-stars Jodie Foster and Cali Reis also faced to shoot the Alaska-set Max crime drama.

Viewers of True Detective: Night Country may find the forbidding darkness and snow-caked backdrop of the Arctic-set Max crime drama jarring, especially as Jodie Foster and Kali Reis in fur-hooded parkas breathe out cold wisps of air while investigating evil all around them. Having acted in a host of dramas set in the Arctic — including her debut role at age 15 as Spring in the Nunavut set-and-shot indie film The Grizzlies — Lambe argued that working as the cameras roll in the shivering cold can lend tension and visceral agony to on-screen performances. She adds tackling Indigenous representation in the entertainment industry calls for more than putting actors like Oscar-nominated Lily Gladstone on the big stage, and instead supporting the First Nations peoples whose stories are increasingly being told with movies like Martin Scorsese’s Killers of the Flower Moon and TV series like Reservation Dogs.

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