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Variety’s Showrunners Sitdown: ‘True Detective: Night Country’ Creator Issa López on Shutting Down Haters and Putting ‘Dead, Naked Men’ on Screen ‘For Fun’
'True Detective: Night Country' creator Issa López talks writing the whodunit, casting Jodie Foster, freezing in Iceland — and dealing with haters.
But all of that changed this year under the stewardship of Mexican filmmaker Issa López (“Tigers Are Not Afraid”), when the series came roaring back into the zeitgeist — with “ True Detective: Night Country,” led by stars Jodie Foster and Kali Reis. Once you figured out that underlying the whole show was going to be this tension in Ennis, the fictional town that you created, between the Indigenous community and the mining company that’s poisoning all the natural resources, what did you do behind the scenes to bring people in to help you with that story? Well, it’s interesting because my first way in into all of this was at Dyatlov Pass, and I thought, OK, so a bunch of people vanish from the face of the earth, and — like the bears in that fairy tale — they leave behind their soup and their shoes and their beds, and we have women walking into the empty house.
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