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Where the Cold Looms Over Everything
Production designer Daniel Taylor breaks down how True Detective: Night Country took Ennis, Alaska, to Iceland.
People leave their car engines running when they pop into the grocery store because the fluid would instantly freeze otherwise; if a person isn’t expected to live through the winter, they prepare by getting their graves dug before it starts to get cold and the soil can no longer break. That was a theme we wanted to latch onto: a resourcefulness, a desolation, this idea of broken things tied together.” In Iceland, production set large swaths of Ennis in Davlik, a village to the north of the country, and Keflavik, a town not far outside Reykjavik that happened to be home to an old American military base. One of López’s earliest reference points for Aguineau was Michael Caine’s character in Children of Men, Jasper Palmer, a former political cartoonist and friend of Theo Faron (Clive Owen) who maintains his optimism in the face of the apocalypse.
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