"True Detective" is bound for season 2 and it will star actor Vince Vaughn as the villain. The actor, who is best known for his light and comic roles in films, feels that the HBO crime drama takes his career to a whole new level. In a new interview with Variety, he dished out his experience in being part of "True Detective."
"Though I still feel so young, I feel like I'm moving into a more adult part of my career," Vaughn told Variety. "And I'm excited about what's ahead of me, for sure."
Vaughn will be the major adversary of Colin Farrell's and Rachel McAdams' characters in the new season. Although it is a given that comedy is Vaughn's true game, "True Detective" creator Nic Pizzolatto believes that he has a place in the show even with its dark premise. It came to him when Vaughn told the creator about remaking the TV series "The Rockford Files."
"I always thought Vince was a great actor, from when he first broke in, doing these interesting and intense performances in the mid-'90s — I remember these independent dramas he was just great in," Pizzolatto told Variety of Vaughn's dramatic acting chops.
"In his maturity I think he wears his history in a rugged, old-school manner. I see echoes of Robert Mitchum and James Garner in the kind of figure he cuts, and I think it's going to be gratifying for people to see his skills put to this kind of use," the creator went on to say as he put across how Vaughn's "essential contradictions at work" make him such a joy to watch.
Vaughn reciprocates Pizzolatto's good words with an expression of admiration for the talented producer, screenwriter and novelist.
"Nic is very unique because he writes literally every episode by himself," Vaughn said. "And it's such adult storytelling. You investigate a specific culture and really climb in and explore it over a long period of time."
Details about "True Detective" season 2 are kept at a minimum although rumor mills chomped enough to claim that the new mystery to solve includes three police officers and a career criminal embroiled in a conspiracy involving a murder. The show is set to return in summer this year with eight episodes.
