‘True Detective: Night Country’ Star Kali Reis on Theories About Her Character’s Fate — and Whether She Plans to Return to Boxing
variety.comSelena Kuznikov HBO broadcast its first women’s boxing bout, between Kali Reis and Cecilia Brækhus, in 2018. Just six years later, Reis is one of the stars on HBO’s “True Detective: Night Country,” where she plays Detective Evangeline Navarro alongside Jodie Foster.
That could very well be the first time any HBO lead was first seen on the pay cabler in a boxing match. “What’s really great about this whole journey is that things that are so far fetched are like not impossible in some part of my brain that understands that it’s a possibility,” Reis tells Variety‘s Awards Circuit Podcast. “And I think that’s one of the many things that keeps me grinding so hard.” In the series, Reis plays Evangeline Navarro, a half-Dominican state trooper in Ennis, a fictional town in rural northern Alaska.
Reis spoke to the Awards Circuit Podcast about her interpretation of the ending and whether she thinks Navarro is still alive.
Listen below! “Catch the Fair One,” which follows a young Native American woman trying to find her younger sister in a sex trafficking ring, was the first film Reis had ever starred in.
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