Although it was shot in Iceland, the production included more than a dozen Alaska creators who took on a wide variety of duties.
Artist Sarah Whalen-Lunn sits in the studio in her Anchorage home on Oct. 4, 2022. Whalen-Lunn is one of several Alaska Native creatives contributing to the HBO series"True Detective: Night Country." She is one of more than a dozen Alaska Native creators who have played significant roles as actors, producers and designers in the series’ fourth season, which is set in the fictional northern town of Ennis, Alaska.
Once she started the work, she watched some older episodes and realized the show’s scope and history: The “True Detective” series is a prestige anthology with dozens of major award nominations for previous seasons.“Then I got very, very scared,” she joked. “This is a big show. A big, big deal. What have I got myself into? Am I going to be able to do it? But they just kept me busy enough that I had no time to think about it.
Although he was a rookie actor, Blanchett started to envision the character as he went through the audition process, which included readings with creator and director Issa Lopez and one of the show’s major stars, Kali Reis, who plays trooper Evangeline Navarro. Once he landed the part, the real work started with multiple weeks of shooting in Iceland starting in November 2022. Fortunately for Blanchett, the shoot worked with a short break he had from touring with Pamyua.
Johnson, a relative veteran of TV and film, is a creative producer and writer for the PBS show “Molly of Denali.” Rexford is best known as an author, poet and playwright but has also worked on short films. “I think for what they were trying to do, they tried to involve as much consultation and take as much direction as possible with the massive array of people they had working with them,” she said.
Princess Daazhraii Johnson is a producer on HBO's"True Detective: Night Country," set in a fictional town of Ennis, Alaska.
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