{"id":20877,"date":"2024-01-13T16:54:53","date_gmt":"2024-01-13T11:24:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/farratanews.online\/mexican-director-issa-lopez-says-its-female-forward-story\/"},"modified":"2024-01-13T16:54:53","modified_gmt":"2024-01-13T11:24:53","slug":"mexican-director-issa-lopez-says-its-female-forward-story","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/farratanews.online\/mexican-director-issa-lopez-says-its-female-forward-story\/","title":{"rendered":"Mexican director Issa L\u00f3pez says it’s \u2018female-forward\u2019 story"},"content":{"rendered":"

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The first season of the acclaimed crime drama \u201cTrue Detective\u201d premiered on HBO 10 years ago. And while the fourth season of the anthology series \u2014 kicking off this Sunday \u2014 looks very different, Mexican filmmaker Issa L\u00f3pez says that the stories for both seasons are connected.<\/p>\n

\u201cI thought that what had made \u2018True Detective\u2019 so unique was this backdrop of a world where you could feel the secrets brewing under the surface, in a corner of America you don\u2019t often see portrayed in media,\u201d L\u00f3pez said in a video interview.<\/p>\n

L\u00f3pez is the showrunner, writer and director of the fourth chapter of \u201cTrue Detective,\u201d which is subtitled \u201cNight Country.\u201d<\/p>\n

And, she says, she wanted to tap into those brewing secrets to create a new story about two detectives that also calls back to Season 1.<\/p>\n

\u201cNight Country\u201d introduces detectives Liz Danvers (played by Jodie Foster) and Evangeline Navarro (played by Kali Reis) as they partner up to solve a case about eight male scientists who disappeared from a research station in northwest Alaska.<\/p>\n

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Showrunner, writer and director Issa L\u00f3pez on the set of “True Detective: Night Country.”<\/span>Lilja Jons \/ HBO<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

As evidence surfaces, viewers will see both detectives get entangled in another unsolved case about a missing Indigenous woman.<\/p>\n

Seasons 1 and 4 are in many ways inverted images of each other. Matthew McConaughey and Woody Harrelson inaugurated the series in a humid, sunlit Louisiana bayou, while Foster and Reis carry out their investigation in a cold, dry tundra that can see weeks of uninterrupted night in winter.<\/p>\n

But in spite of these contrasts, L\u00f3pez\u00a0describes both sets of detectives as \u201ccharacters who are holding a lot of darkness, and a lot of doubts, and a lot of obsessions.\u201d And she focuses on these tensions to draw out comparisons.<\/p>\n

The Mexican filmmaker says she started working on the story for \u201cNight Country\u201d over three years ago, before joining the \u201cTrue Detective\u201d franchise. And she combined elements from Western and noir genres to create the type of \u201cmysteries that had obsessed\u201d her as a child.<\/p>\n

Growing up, L\u00f3pez recalled, she was influenced by John Carpenter\u2019s 1982 science-fiction horror movie \u201cThe Thing.\u201d She also remembered watching detective shows dubbed in Spanish on Canal 5 in Mexico, which fed her lifelong passion for finding out \u201cwho is the killer.\u201d<\/p>\n

Unlike the first season of \u201cTrue Detective\u201d \u2014 critics described\u00a0female characters then as mostly peripheral \u2014 L\u00f3pez says she wanted to tell a female-forward story where Jodie Foster could pay homage to her 1991 film role as an FBI agent trainee in the psychological-horror thriller \u201cThe Silence of the Lambs.\u201d<\/p>\n

When picking Foster\u2019s partner on screen, however, L\u00f3pez changed her idea of the character as she learned more about the geography and culture of Alaska.<\/p>\n

\u201cOriginally the character was Latina, because I am a Latina and I wanted to portray the experience,\u201d she said. \u201cBut the more I understood about the specificity of the landscape, the more I understood the character should be an agent that comes from the same culture.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Kali Reis and Jodie Foster in “True Detective: Night Country.” <\/span>HBO<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Ultimately, L\u00f3pez preserved part of detective Navarro\u2019s Latina heritage: Her father is Dominican and her mother is I\u00f1upiaq \u2014 a Native group from Alaska.<\/p>\n

Once it became clear that she wanted a detective who was going to be a mix of two cultures, L\u00f3pez said that Kali Reis \u2014 a boxer-turned-actor with Black and Native American ancestry \u2014 was a perfect fit.<\/p>\n

Though Reis is not an Alaska Native. Her Indigenous heritage comes from Cherokee, Nipmuc and Seaconke Wampanoag lineage.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe have characters that don\u2019t come from the outside to figure out and solve the Indigenous problem. It\u2019s the people from the region themselves who figure out the puzzle,\u201d she said. \u201cAnd they become active characters instead of passive characters seeing it happen in the hands of characters that come from the outside.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Fans of the first season will also be excited to know that beyond the familiar story of an intense partnership between two detectives, \u201cNight Country\u201d is also connected in more direct ways.<\/p>\n

L\u00f3pez says that characters in Season 4 \u201care related to characters in the first season.\u201d She also points out the reappearance of the spiral symbol, which was associated with Carcosa \u2014 a place where gruesome rituals were performed in Season 1.<\/p>\n

Additionally, \u201cNight Country\u201d includes smaller nods, like characters drinking the same beer in both seasons. And L\u00f3pez also highlights that \u201cfinal big revelations in Episode 6\u201d will connect the stories of Seasons 1 and 4.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n[ad_2]\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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