True Detective star Jodie Foster has called her character on the show a "Karen" ahead of its upcoming fourth season.
The actress leads the cast as Detective Liz Danvers in the crime drama's latest series, subtitled Night Country — which sees an Alaskan investigation grow darker as the season unfolds.
Speaking at the Los Angeles premiere of the show this week (January 9), Foster described Danvers as an "Alaska Karen" (via People).
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"Liz Danvers is awful," she said. "No two ways about it. She's an awful, awful character. But you see why."
She continued: "You see where that came from and you see what she's struggling against and the turmoil that's in her and the protectiveness and the love that she has for her partner in the film [played by Kali Reis], her other trooper character."
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The actress went on to explain the differences between Danvers and her previous detective role in Silence of the Lambs, FBI trainee Clarice Starling.
"Clarice is pretty different than Liz. I think Clarice probably wouldn't have ended up continuing to be an FBI officer. I just feel like someday she would've quit and maybe worked in a soup kitchen or something," she said.
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Foster and Reis take on the show's newest lead roles following the turns of Woody Harrelson and Matthew McConaughey in season one, Colin Farrell and Rachel McAdams in season two, and Mahershala Ali in season three.
The new series is also set to star Doctor Who's Christopher Eccleston, Killing Eve's Fiona Shaw, Deadwood's John Hawkes, The Nevers' Finn Bennett and The Grizzlies' Anna Lambe.
At the time of writing (January 14), Night Country has an impressive 93% rating on Rotten Tomatoes, with critics branding Foster and Reis a "formidable team".
True Detective: Night Country streams on Max on January 14 in the US, and on Sky Atlantic and NOW on January 15 in the UK.
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