True Detective Season 2: Jessica Chastain Offered Lead

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Nerdist.com just broke the news that Oscar-nominated actress Jessica Chastain (Zero Dark Thirty, The Help) has been offered one of the leading roles in the second season of HBO's True Detective. But will she be able to find the Yellow King the way she found Bin Laden?

True Detective, as you know, is an anthology series. With each new season containing new characters and a new mystery. So it's safe to assume that Chastain was offered the role of one of the, you know, detectives (we're not certain however if we'll be given a new duo, like Harrelson and McConaughhey, or if her character would be going it alone).

Funnily enough, this news comes on the heels of last week's rumor started up by the Mirror UK that Brad Pitt, Chastain's co-star in Tree of Life, had been offered a lead role as well. That news was a bit shaky though.


Chastain, with Brad Pitt, in Terrence Malick's Tree of Life.

This news of Chasitain possibly joining also falls in line with creator Nic Pazzolatto's statement about Season 2 perhaps centering more on strong female characters to differentiate it a bit from the male-centric first season.

Nerdist reached out to representatives of Chastain, but they declined to comment.

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