Jodie Foster’s detective comeback: ‘True Detective’ with Lambs influence

Jodie Foster’s detective comeback: ‘True Detective’ with Lambs influence – Jodie Foster has repeated in ‘True Detective’ an experience she experienced in ‘The Silence of the Lambs’ 33 years ago.

By Megan Sauer

Jodie Foster and Issa López, protagonist and director of the HBO Max series, tell us, exclusively, their references for the fourth installment of the franchise.

That Jodie Foster returns to play a detective 30 years after ‘The Silence of the Lambs’ is no coincidence.

“I had been offered this character many times… including the sequel to the movie,” the actress tells us, exclusively, during a visit to the filming of ‘True Detective: Polar Night’ in Reykjavík, Iceland.

But none of her proposals had convinced her, until the Mexican Issa López arrived with a script that she could not reject.

“I wrote the series thinking about Jodie, she read two chapters and told me: ‘I take a few things, I have done too much. But this interests me,’” the director tells us. And the interpreter adds: “I had not done a series since I was 12, but now we are in the golden age of television.

It’s where the best scripts are found. In fact, every year I get more nervous before watching the Golden Globes or the Emmys.”

From the first moment and inevitably, both had Jonathan Demme’s iconic film in mind.

For Jodie, despite her very long career, it continues to be one of the experiences that most marked her professionally… and not only because of the Oscar she won. And Issa considers it one of the best cinematographic exercises ever filmed.

For this reason, the new batch of ‘True Detective’ breathes the disturbing atmosphere (this time, yes, icy) of ‘The Silence of the Lambs’, starting with the character of Liz Danvers.

On this occasion, Jodie changes the jacket suit that Clarice Starling wore for “parkas, giant belts, hats, flashlights and walkie talkies.

Additionally, Clarice was quiet, reserved, and always did the right thing. She would never have become so cynical.”

However, it is impossible for her to get such an iconic character out of her head. “We all know the dialogues, we have the recorded images… Clarice is eternal,” confesses Issa López.

And precisely with the director of the series the connections continue. “In my career, I only remember one filming as happy as this one for ‘True Detective’: ‘The Silence of the Lambs’. I felt like I was doing the best

job of my life and I thought I would never experience anything like that again.

I have spent my entire career trying to find that rainbow again… And here it was,” confesses the actress.

And she adds: “Issa is the best director I’ve ever worked with: fun and relaxed, and she knows what she wants. She is honest and close like few others.

As with Jonathan Demme, who was always hugging me and identified a lot with Clarice, with her I have also let myself go. I have even collaborated on her script, but I know that I am here to serve her.”

Curious, by the way, the perspective of the film that the passage of time has given Jodie. “I reviewed it eight years ago because my children, 24 and 21, had not seen it.

And I didn’t remember how scary it was, the poor people were very scared,” she remembers.

But there is another title that hovers over the imagery created for the new installment of Nic Pizzolatto’s anthology: ‘Seven’, by David Fincher.

An essential for any lover of the genre and an inexhaustible source of inspiration that, as it could not be otherwise, is also present in the series:

“’The Silence of the Lambs’ sponsored ‘Seven’ and ‘Seven’ has sponsored ‘True Detective,’” Issa acknowledges.

Could the heads appearing in the snow be the beginning of a ritual similar to the one investigated by Morgan Freeman and Brad Pitt?

Are supernatural events the new deadly sins? Is there a bloodthirsty serial killer behind everything? This has just begun.