Jodie Foster experienced her “worst nightmare” while filming True Detective: Night Country.
The 61-year-old actress played the tough cop Chief Liz Danvers in the latest installment of the limited series and she admitted a scene where she had to fall through the ice was terrifying because the water tank was pitch black and her clothes had deliberately been weighted down.
Asked which scene she had expected filming to be “hell”, she told Robert Downey Jr for Variety’s Actors on Actors series: “Falling through the ice. Because I kept saying, ‘How are we going to do it?’ And they’d be like, ‘Oh, we’ll see.’ Because it’s at the end. But we’re not really falling through the ice, right?
“Yeah. So we shot that on a big tank. And it’s entirely dark, maybe 150 feet down.