'True Detective' Season 2 Cast: Series to Feature Jessica Chastain in Lead Role?
The "True Detective" season 2 cast could feature actress Jessica Chastain in the lead role.
The show's creator, Nic Pizzolatto, plans to have a female-driven cast for the second season and has offered Chastain the lead role, according to The Nerdist. The report also states that she hasn't taken it yet.
Considering the different direction for this upcoming season, she may or may not have a partner.
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Pizzolatto hinted in an interview with Buzzfeed earlier this year that the second season might take place in southern California.
When asked about what other long-term stories he could write for the next one he revealed a possible location.
"Oh, all kinds of conspiracies suggest themselves," he said. "Especially if, like me, you've been reading about the last 40 years of Southern California government."
He also discussed a tweet that he deleted, which addressed the show's lack of strong female characters during the first season.
"I deleted the tweet because I didn't want to be beholden to a promise and then change my mind," he said. "I'm writing Season 2 right now, but I don't want to divulge any potentialities, because so much could change. I just never want to create from a place of critical placation- that's a dead zone. So I don't want, for instance, a gender-bias-critique to influence what I do."
Pizzolatto previously revealed that Season 2 will revolve around "hard women," "bad men" and the "secret occult history of the U.S. transportation system."
"True Detective" caught fire in the beginning of this year with Matthew McConaughey and Woody Harrelson earning praise from critics for their groundbreaking roles in the series. It follows an anthology format so the story, actors and characters will change with every season.
