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Former Boxing Champ Kali Reis On Her Knockout Role In True Detective: Night Country: “From A Thought To An Avalanche, That’s How My Acting Career Began”
Former boxing champ Kali Reis talks about leaving the ring to work with acting legend Jodie Foster in 'True Detective: Night Country.'
Watching one of the most heart-wrenching sequences of the anthology series play out, and Reis’ portrayal of her stoic character’s momentary collapse, it is near impossible to comprehend that this is only the 37-year-old’s third on-screen role. “Josef Kubota Wladyka, the director of Catch the Fair One, was educating himself on the Highway of Tears in Canada, but he knew it wasn’t his story to tell.” Reis, who is of both Cape Verdean and Seaconke Wampanoag descent, had been posting about missing and murdered Indigenous women online. In the independent thriller Reis portrayed Kaylee, a Native American former boxer conducting a search for her missing sister, whose disappearance the authorities have no interest in investigating.
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