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Night Country’s Kali Reis Claims Another Victory
She fought in HBO’s first women’s boxing match in 2018. Now she’s sparring opposite Jodie Foster in True Detective’s fourth outing.
Reis’s symmetrical dimple piercings only get deeper when she smirks or laughs, which she does often when we discuss her work on Night Country — sparring with co-star Jodie Foster, “a mentor, a friend”; building Navarro’s backstory with input from her husband, Brian Cohen, her boxing trainer and manager; sharing scenes with other Indigenous actresses. We’re sipping wine and dipping chunks of bread into a pot of pleasantly funky truffle fondue; Reis tried the fungi for the first time in Iceland after seeing the film Pig, and now “I’m down for truff.” When she gets excited, as she is about the opportunity to eat after a day full of interviews, her New England accent becomes more pronounced. Before filming, Reis consulted with the series’ producers, whom she calls “my sisters,” Cathy Tagnak Rexford (who has Iñupiaq ancestry) and Princess Daazhraii Johnson (who is Neets’aii Gwich’in) on the knowledge of Native customs that would help shape Navarro.
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