Jodie Foster wanted her True Detective: Night Country character to be ‘as awful as possible,’ Kali Reis recalls those ‘brutal’ below-zero night shoots

Interview by Kristen Baldwin
Illustration by Zoë van Dijk

Jodie Foster and Kali Reis are ready for their next project together.

“We’re doing the whole roommate New York thing,” Reis says, wasting no time answering when Entertainment Weekly presents them with a few options for potential vehicles: an Odd Couple-style sitcom playing New York roommates; a heist drama like Hell or High Water; or a sci-fi thriller like Alien.

Foster agrees. “Especially because Kali is a great comedian. She is so funny,” the two-time Oscar winner and first-time Emmy acting nominee says on the Awardist podcast. “It’s an untapped part of her personality. And people don’t realize that I’m funny because I choose very serious parts.”

“No, you’re hilarious,” Reis says, interrupting to assure her costar. “You’re a good hype man. You put the battery in people’s backs.”