The six-part season comes not long after A Murder at the End of the World<\/a> on Disney Plus<\/a>, which also explored a chilling case of foul play in a remote, Arctic location \u2013 clearly, that kind of isolation is resonating with writers at the moment.<\/p>\n But fans of True Detective may be interested to learn that Night Country was not filmed in Alaska, despite that state being the setting of the story by showrunner Issa L\u00f3pez.<\/p>\n Read on for details on which country served as its screen double and the difficulties that came with filming.<\/p>\n True Detective: Night Country<\/a> was filmed in Iceland<\/strong>. The production shot scenes in the capital city of Reykjav\u00edk, as well as the northern towns of Akureyri and Dalv\u00edk.<\/p>\n L\u00f3pez said that while she wanted to be \u201ctrue\u201d to the location of the story, it would have been impossible to shoot something on the scale of Night Country in such a desolate region of the US state.<\/p>\n \u201cThe part of Alaska where we needed to shoot this \u2013 which is above the Arctic Circle, where the night expands into months \u2013 doesn\u2019t have the infrastructure,\u201d she told Total Film<\/a>.<\/p>\n \u201cYou reach temperatures of minus 36 degrees Celsius. It gets beyond human endurance\u2026 to the point that cameras don\u2019t work.\u201d<\/p>\n That\u2019s what led the crew to look further afield for their ideal spot \u2013 but don\u2019t go thinking that they got off scot-free.<\/p>\n On the contrary, Kali Reis recalled to USA Today<\/a> how one pivotal outdoor scene saw the temperature drop to minus 15 degrees Celsius, with her light SWAT vest hardly providing the cover to withstand such cold.<\/p>\n Both Reis and co-star Foster added it was difficult to prevent their voices from croaking up while breathing in such freezing air during filming.<\/p>\n The Silence of the Lambs star told IcelandAir<\/a>: \u201cThere were huge challenges, as you can imagine. First of all, we were working at night, trying to light at nighttime and in the snow. But we kind of had the gods on our side.<\/p>\n \u201cWhen we needed all the snow, we got the snow, and when we needed it to be calm, we got the calm.\u201d<\/p>\n While a key element of the moody drama series is the lack of daylight that Ennis sees \u2013 giving the town an eerie quality that plays tricks on the mind \u2013 the Icelandic locations were not actually in this state of constant darkness.<\/p>\n Foster added: \u201cYou get that little bit of sunlight between 11am and 3pm, and even though the sun doesn\u2019t really get up very high on the horizon, you still get the ambient light, so it\u2019s not like there\u2019s no daylight.\u201d<\/p>\n No, Ennis is a fictional town<\/strong> created as the setting of True Detective: Night Country.<\/p>\n Vanity Fair<\/a> notes that the Irish word means \u201cfrom the island\u201d, which it speculates could be a reference to Jules Verne\u2019s 1897 novel involving a mysterious place thought to be populated by an Indigenous population who are hostile to explorers.<\/p>\n The publication questions whether this could be a deliberate connection, reflecting the tension between some Indigenous and white characters in Night Country, such as a group of environmental campaigners and the owners of a polluting mine.<\/p>\n [squirrel-affiliate-playlist squirrel_playlist_id=\u201d610\u2033 \/]<\/p>\n True Detective: Night Country premiered on Sky Atlantic and NOW on Monday 15th January 2024. New episodes weekly. Find Sky deals here<\/a>. <\/strong><\/p>\n Check out more of our Drama<\/a> coverage or visit our TV Guide<\/a> and Streaming Guide<\/a> to find out what\u2019s on.<\/strong><\/p>\n Try Radio Times magazine today and get 10 issues for only \u00a310 \u2013\u00a0subscribe now<\/a>. For more from the biggest stars in TV, listen to\u00a0The Radio Times Podcast<\/a>.<\/b><\/p> <\/body><\/html>\n Jodie Foster and Kali Reis braved extreme weather for the new drama. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":24,"featured_media":43928,"template":"","categories":[1,5],"acf":[],"uagb_featured_image_src":{"full":["https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/uploads\/sites\/56\/2024\/01\/where-is-true-detective-night-country-filmed-scaled.jpg",2560,1707,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/uploads\/sites\/56\/2024\/01\/where-is-true-detective-night-country-filmed-150x150.jpg",150,150,true],"medium":["https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/uploads\/sites\/56\/2024\/01\/where-is-true-detective-night-country-filmed-300x200.jpg",300,200,true],"medium_large":["https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/uploads\/sites\/56\/2024\/01\/where-is-true-detective-night-country-filmed-768x512.jpg",768,512,true],"large":["https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/uploads\/sites\/56\/2024\/01\/where-is-true-detective-night-country-filmed-1024x683.jpg",800,534,true],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/uploads\/sites\/56\/2024\/01\/where-is-true-detective-night-country-filmed-1536x1024.jpg",1536,1024,true],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/uploads\/sites\/56\/2024\/01\/where-is-true-detective-night-country-filmed-2048x1365.jpg",2048,1365,true]},"uagb_author_info":{"display_name":"importmanagerhub@sprylab.com","author_link":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/radiotimes\/author\/importmanagerhubsprylab-com\/"},"uagb_comment_info":0,"uagb_excerpt":"Jodie Foster and Kali Reis braved extreme weather for the new drama.","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/radiotimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rss_feed\/43927"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/radiotimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rss_feed"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/radiotimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/rss_feed"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/radiotimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/24"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/radiotimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/43928"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/radiotimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=43927"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/radiotimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=43927"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}Where is True Detective: Night Country filmed?<\/strong><\/h2>\n
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