Colin Farrell and Vince Vaughn Preview “True Detective” Season Two

Lacey Terrell/HBO(NEW YORK) — We still don’t know much about the season two of True Detective, except that three police officers are in search of a longtime criminal, played by Vince Vaughn, in the aftermath of a murder.  We won’t have long to wait, though, since the new season debuts Sunday on HBO.  

Colin Farrell, who stars as one of those police officers, explains why the season is shrouded in secrecy.

“In a world of such fluid sharing of information, it’s harder for people not to know what’s coming up next,” he said Friday on Live with Kelly and Michael. “So I think they just want to give the audience the best chance to be able to have things revealed to them as they’re taking place week to week to week.”

By “they,” Farrell means True Detective‘s creator and writer, Nic Pizzolatto. Farrell has previously said it was Pizzolatto who convinced him to sign onto the small-screen role, and adds the creator keeps the show interesting.

“For me, if there’s one carry over you’d like from the first season to the second season, it’s the writer. Directors are incredibly important, and the casts of course are incredibly important in making the first season what it was, but Nic as the writer and the show creator was the one that really birthed the whole thing, you know?” said Farrell.

Farrell’s co-star, Vince Vaughn, agreed with that opinion.  On Friday’s Good Morning America, he said it was Pizzolatto’s script that intrigued him enough to give a TV series a try — a process he says he enjoyed.

“It’s really nice in a way to have that much time to kind of investigate, you know, characters, especially stuff that’s character-driven and as the lines and things get kind of woven it becomes very compelling,” said Vaughn. “So I think it’s a lot more than you would have in a feature, so I think you can kind of get a little bit more into the characters in the world.”

Speaking of TV, Farrell admitted on Kelly and Michael that he doesn’t even watch much of it, but he made an exception for the first season of True Detective.

“It’s not like I’m above TV…far from it,” Farrell explained. “I just haven’t got around to. But anyway, I have a friend that said, ‘You should watch this thing, True Detective,’ last year, and I was flying back from London on a plane and the first three episodes were on it. And I could not believe what I was seeing. And as soon as I got back to Los Angeles I streamed the last five episodes.”

Rachel McAdams and Taylor Kitsch portray the other two police officers in True Detective, alongside Farrell, while Vaughn portrays the bad guy. Or is he really that bad?

“I think he’s a complicated gentleman, yes,” Vaughn said of his character. “I think there’s, you know, qualities on both sides where he is concerned, which is part of the fun of playing a character like that. I don’t think it’s 100 percent one thing.”

The second season of True Detective premieres Sunday at 9 p.m. Eastern on HBO.


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