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Woody Harrelson says there is “not a chance” he will return to ‘True Detective’

by jummy84 November 2, 2025

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Woody Harrelson has nixed any hopes of a True Detective reunion, flatly saying there’s “not a chance” he’d reprise the role of Marty Hart.

READ MORE: ‘True Detective: Night Country’ review: back to its brutal, unbeatable best

On Friday (October 31), Harrelson sat down with the 3rd Hour of Today‘s Dylan Dreyer and spoke about the possibility of revisiting the hit drama.

“A lot of folks want to know if there will ever be another True Detective with you and Matthew McConaughey,” Dreyer said. “[McConaughey] actually said he would be into it, if Woody and I think it’s good enough. It wouldn’t even be a choice.’ Would you do another one?”

“Matthew’s so funny,” Harrelson replied. “In fairness, never. Not a chance… Because it turned out great. I love that it turned out the way it did, and if anything, doing another season would, I think, tarnish that.”

Last month, we spoke to McConaughey about his return to film with The Lost Bus, where he touched on talks surrounding a True Detective revival and said things would “have to be special” for him to come back.

Matthew McConaughey in ‘True Detective’ season one. CREDIT: HBO

Back in May, it emerged that series creator Nic Pizzolatto had discussed a potential idea with him that could unite him and Harrelson on screen, with McConaughey saying that while there was “excitement” about the idea, he hadn’t seen a script yet.

“When I originally read True Detective, everything that came out of Rust Cohle’s mouth was white-hot,” he told NME. “The script was on fire so the execution [of a sequel] must go another step. We’re keen on the idea but it’s nothing more than an idea. If Nic puts something on paper that Woody and I think is good enough, it wouldn’t even be a choice. We would look at it and go, ‘it must happen’.

“It’s gotta be damn good though because we set a pretty good precedent!”

McConaughey starred as the lead, Rust Cohle, in the hit show back in 2014 alongside Woody Harrelson, and took home the Critics’ Choice Television Award for Best Actor in a Drama Series for the role. That season also won five Primetime Emmy Awards, a BAFTA for Best International Series, two Writers Guild of America Awards for Pizzolatto, and more.

The nature of the crime anthology means that characters are not revisited, with each season following different characters in different cities. Jodie Foster, who recently won an Emmy for her performance in True Detective: Night Country, confirmed that the role was a “one and done” situation where she would not be coming back.

November 2, 2025 0 comments

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Woody Harrelson Says He Won’t Do Another Season of ‘True Detective’

by jummy84 November 1, 2025

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Woody Harrelson is happy with his work on the first season of True Detective, but he has no interest of reprising his role of Detective Marty Hart in future installments of the HBO series.

On the third hour of NBC’s Today show Friday, Dylan Dreyer asked Harrelson if he would ever return to the show. She pointed out that his co-star Matthew McConaughey, who played Detective Rust Cohle in the first season, recently said he was open to returning.

“He actually said that he would be into it, ‘If Woody and I think it’s good enough. It wouldn’t even be a choice,’” Dreyer said of McConaughey’s recent comments.

“Matthew’s so funny, but in fairness, never,” Harrelson responded. “Not a chance.”

He went on to explain there was a specific reason why he didn’t want to reprise his role on True Detective. “Because it turned out great. I love that it turned out the way it did,” he said. “If anything, doing another season would, I think, tarnish that.”

The first season of True Detective was a critical success, with the show earning four nominations at the 2014 Emmys. Additionally, both Harrelson and McConaughey earned Emmy and Golden Globe nominations for their roles.

While Harrelson doesn’t plan to return to the world of True Detective, he revealed he is working with McConaughey in the near future. “We are doing something together and this is a comedy, half-hour, and hopefully people dig it,” Harrelson said without revealing any further information about the project.

However, he was likely referring to their upcoming scripted series Brother From Another Mother, which follows the two actors attempting to live together on McConaughey’s ranch in Texas. The upcoming series is set to air on Apple TV, though a release date has not yet been announced.

Harrelson shut down the idea of returning to True Detective just weeks after McConaughey revealed what it would take for him to return to the series.

“We’re pretty excited about the idea, but there’s no script yet. When I read the original ‘True Detective’ script and everything Rust Cohle said … it was fire. It was so good that a sequel would have to take it a step further,” he told NME earlier in October. “We’re all thrilled by the idea, but for now it’s just an idea. However, if Katherine Schaffstall Nic [Pizzolatto] writes something that Woody or I think is really good, saying no wouldn’t even be an option.”

November 1, 2025 0 comments

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Woody Harrelson on True Detective Sequel With Matthew McConaughey

by jummy84 November 1, 2025

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Forget Joey and Pacey, and Joey and Dawson, because Williams and Phillipps were the true love story of Dawson’s Creek. The actresses became close when Philipps joined the WB series in 2001.

“Someone had said, ‘When you two meet, there is going to be a chemical reaction,'” Williams recalled in a 2018 interview with People. “I had been really excited for this girl to land in Wilmington. We became inseparable and I fell in love with her.”

And their time working together on the series was formative.

“My memory of being with her then doesn’t have anything to do with the show or working, but it was on our time off,” Philipps told Entertainment Weekly. “It was talking on the porch all night long and it was back when bread was still okay to eat. It was copious amounts of bread. That’s what I remember: an endless conversation over multiple bread baskets.”

In the years since Dawson’s Creek ended in 2003, they have remained one of Hollywood’s closest pair of friends, and it was Philipps who rushed to Williams’ Brooklyn row home after her former partner Heath Ledger was found dead in his apartment of an accidental overdose in 2008.

“I said to her recently, ‘You have really saved me from ever being lonely because you are always right there,'” Williams told People in 2018. “We are so close and can tell each other everything. I don’t know what I would be or who I would be without Busy.”

Philipps, who is godmother to Matlida Ledger, was Williams’ go-to date to award shows for years, with each experience reminding the duo how far they have come.

“I think for her, and for me too, to have each other by our sides as we go through this process, and when she’s been nominated, or on other red carpets that we’ve done together, or events, it’s just great to have somebody that can be your touchstone for reality,” Philipps explained to Elle. “Maybe I’m giving away a secret, but we always try right before we get to one of these red carpets to just look at each other and say, ‘Don’t forget how lucky we are. This is our life now.'”

November 1, 2025 0 comments

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Mark Ruffalo Saved Woody Harrelson From ‘Disastrous’ Bar Fight

by jummy84 October 15, 2025

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Mark Ruffalo revealed on the “Where Everybody Knows Your Name” podcast that he saved Woody Harrelson from an epic bar fight when the two were in New Orleans filming 2013’s “Now You See Me,” Louis Leterrier’s heist thriller about a group of illusionists who carry out robberies. Ruffalo played an FBI agent trying to capture the group.

“We were shooting ‘Now You See Me’ in New Orleans, completely on the streets. Totally wild,” Ruffalo said (via Entertainment Weekly). “Capturing stuff on a long lens, getting dragged into bars during the middle of a scene, like in the middle of Mardi Gras.”

Ruffalo and Danson stayed out after filming wrapped for the day and went to “a packed place” to grab a drink when things escalated.

“A woman came up to [Woody] and she said, ‘Oh my God, I love you so much,’” Ruffalo said. “Woody put his hand on her arm and he said, ‘Oh, thank you. Thank you, darling.’ And this guy comes over and he pushes her outta the way, and he shoves Woody. Bad. Because Woody’s first response is not ‘shove someone back,’ but ‘immediately punch them in the face.’ Which is the right thing to do, by the way. It’s the absolute right thing to do. But then a whole melee broke out in this bar. I was in the middle of it and it was turning into a— it was getting to become a whole thing… And I grabbed [Woody].”

“I grabbed [Woody] and I pulled him out,” Ruffalo continued. “Because I was like, ‘This could be fun, but it also just could go so disastrously wrong because you and I might be able to handle ourselves but the rest of the folks we were with… I don’t think so.”

Ruffalo and Harrelson starred in “Now You See Me” alongside Jesse Eisenberg, Mélanie Laurent, Isla Fisher, Dave Franco, Morgan Freeman and more. The movie was a box office hit with $351 million worldwide and spawned a franchise that led to 2016’s “Now You See Me 2” and the upcoming “Now You See Me: Now You Don’t,” in theaters Nov. 14.

Watch Ruffalo’s interview on the “Where Everybody Knows Your Name” podcast in the video below.

October 15, 2025 0 comments