David Morse Talks More True Detective in New Interview
David Mores talks a bit more about his time in True Detective season two.
Nobody really wants to talk about True Detective season two. Nobody that was involved in it, anyway, and that extends even to its writer, Nic Pizzolatto. Enter David Morse, who is out and about promoting his new show, The Outsiders. As Ani Bezzerides’ father, there was no was no way that True Detective wasn’t going to come up.
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In a new interview with The AV Club Morse starts off by talking about how much of a fan he was of True Detective’s first season, and how he only had time to appear in a handful of episodes or less of season two:
"“But I was asked to do True Detective, and I was told that it would be… I don’t know, three episodes out of the seven? Something like that. And I’d be Rachel [McAdams’] father. It’s so incredibly top secret, this thing.”"
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The secretive nature of True Detective is well known at this point. That is one of the things it’s famous for, to the chagrin of fans and even those involved. Morse goes into this a little more:
"“…I was the only one allowed to see them. Agents couldn’t read the scripts, nobody could read the scripts, I wasn’t allowed to know anything about the story. I just knew it was for her father…this scene that was, like, written in lemon juice on parchment, so it would disappear as soon as you’d read it.”"
If that sounds paranoid, hostile, and well, hardcore, that’s because it is. Nic Pizzolatto doesn’t want to share True Detective with one more person than he has to. This might actually be all of the knowledge that Morse is allowed to share — it wouldn’t be difficult to believe that the actors have had to sign various NDA’s.
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Unfortunately that interview doesn’t go into season two’s reception or what it was like working with Pizzolatto or the other actors. But for those interested in Morse’s new project, The Outsiders, there is plenty more to dig into.