True Detective: Night Country | Episode 02 with Joel Montgrand !

You knew that Lisa and Dean were already VERY excited about True
Detective: Night Country  … but today that excitement was
ramped up to level infinity because we are joined in the pod
today by one of those actors who despite their role being
nominally a recurring co-star, they simply steal your eyeballs in
every scene they are in.


And don’t take our word for it … after his filming was finished
and he was back Stateside, Showrunner Issa López thought so much
of his performance that she wrote extra dialogue for him and flew
him back for more filming.


Today, we are talking about the amazing actor Joel Montgrand
!  Better known to viewers as Qavvik, Navarro’s hunky,
convenient, sex toy and proprietor of the  local brewhouse
called … err … Qavvik’s.


Joel covers his scarcely believable  path to acting, his
background as a proud Cree man from Saskatchewan and we dive into
his  experience on this season with some cool stories of his
time in Iceland for principal filming. That’s right folks, it was
shot in Iceland not Alaska !  Wanna know why ?  Just
listen along to find out.


And when you are done with all that ear candy from Navvaro's eye
candy, then (like Eddie Murphy in Beverly Hills Cop) you can go
deep, deep DEEP! undercover … with the extensive links
below: OK, deep breath … and away we go:


Joel’s own podcast on First Nations talent in tv and film 
is called ‘Actors and Ancestors’  check it out here
https://www.actorsandancestors.com/


Here’s a terrific interview with Jodie Foster and Showrunner Issa
Lopez
https://www.gamesradar.com/true-dectective-night-country-interview-exclusive-jodie-foster/ 


All about Kali Reis the astounding actress playing Evangeline
Navarro https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kali_Reis


A wonderfully readable article on the locations used in this
season
https://www.housebeautiful.com/lifestyle/entertainment/a46439515/true-detective-night-country-filming-locations/


Here’s a Buch of RECAPS from the likes of vulture, NYT, Variety
and more …
https://www.vulture.com/article/true-detective-recap-season-4-episode-2.html


https://www.nytimes.com/2024/01/21/arts/television/true-detective-recap-episode-2.html


https://www.theringer.com/2024/1/21/24046238/true-detective-night-country-season-4-episode-2-recap


https://screenrant.com/true-detective-night-country-episode-2-recap-story-reveals/#the-researchers-have-spirals-on-their-foreheads


https://www.esquire.com/entertainment/tv/a46410144/true-detective-premiere-recap-season-4-episode-2/


https://variety.com/2024/tv/news/true-detective-night-country-episode-2-recap-spoilers-questions-theories-1235880441/


A brilliant resource called TuneFind which lists all the music
used in tv and film and most importantly WHERE it occurs in the
show !
https://www.tunefind.com/show/true-detective/season-4/246030
 


All about The Tuttle Cult as er Season 1 … and now introduced to
this Season 4
https://true-detective.fandom.com/wiki/Tuttle_Cult


Horrific true life inspiration for the ‘Corpsicle’ of scientists
from Tsalal.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dyatlov_Pass_incident


And finally the IMDB page for Night Country with the complete
cast list for this season, in case you need to remind yourself
who is who … lord knows we do !


https://www.imdb.com/title/tt29314270/fullcredits/?ref_=tt_cl_sm