Jodie Foster says she was ‘rescued’ by free diver while filming True Detective drowning scene

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Jodie Foster has revealed {that a} free diver needed to swim down and rescue her after she shot a dramatic drowning sequence for True Detective: Night Country.

Foster, 61, performs Alaskan Detective Liz Danvers within the collection, which aired its finale this weekend.

While talking to GQ , Foster was requested about filming a scene during which Danvers falls via damaged ice into the ocean.

“That was the scariest day,” Foster informed the journal. “They built a tank. My boots were weighted, my parka was weighted, everything was weighted, because I had to drop. It was completely dark and I couldn’t wear contact lenses, so I couldn’t see.

“Everything, except for one small area [of the surface] was closed, so I couldn’t figure out how to get to the top. And, because I was weighted, I couldn’t, even if I tried. Once they cut, a free diver had to come and rescue me and bring me to the surface because I couldn’t find it. It was panic-inducing.”

This collection was the fourth instalment within the True Detective franchise.

In a four-star overview of the present, The Independent’s tv critic Nick Hilton wrote: “In the word cloud of adjectives used to describe Jodie Foster over the course of her career, I suspect that ‘cold’ and ‘icy’ would be quite large – so, she’s perfectly cast here. Reis brings more fragility and humanity to her side of the detective duo.”

Kali Reis performs Alaska state trooper Evangeline Navarro on the present, and the previous world champion boxer just lately informed The Independent that working with two-time Academy Award winner Foster was like coaching in a “gym full of champs”.

“I’m not walking into a gym to be the big dog; I want to be the worst one in the room so I can get better,” she mentioned, including of Foster: “She doesn’t take anything too seriously – if she screws up, she screws up, and she’s so generous with her knowledge, her time, her ideas. She’s an amazing person.”

True Detective: Night Country creator Issa López just lately defined the rationale behind the collection’ callbacks and references to the present’s acclaimed season one, which starred Matthew McConaughey and Woody Harrelson.

López informed The Independent: ”It’s crucial to me to say the world the place Dora Lange died in 2007 in Louisiana is the very same world the place the scientists disappear in 2024. So how do you identify these realities? Just to say, ‘This is the same world.’”