Ann Dowd Looks Back on "True Detective"

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Memories From the Set: Ann Dowd on "True Detective"


Dowd "loved every second" of her disturbing turn as Betty Childress, who'd experienced violation and incest for most of her life. Dowd credits the theater background of Glenn Fleshler, who played her brother Errol, for their easy time shooting some very difficult material.

"When you've spent enough time in the theater" — as Dowd has — "you get the drill, you trust each other and you don't need to exchange very many words. That was a requirement, given their relationship, that we be comfortable with one another."



Also helpful? The attention to detail the HBO series' set designers paid to Errol's home of horrors.

"You step one step into that house, and your homework's almost done for you," she says.

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