After five long years, HBO's critically acclaimed show, True Detective, is finally back. This season, focusing on a case of eight scientists who mysteriously vanished from an Arctic research station in the fictional rural town of Ennis, Alaska. As authorities look for answers, they find themselves with even more questions. Take a look.

What do you want? It's been six years. Why are you here? Because you both know what really happened. I need my help. I've I've seen that before. Years ago. Fine. You're just going to do this one thing. We're together to close this case. That's it for the two of us. It is. So you went in or what?

Joining us now is actor, activist, and boxing world champion Kaylee Reece. Kaylee, thanks so much for joining us. That's intense. That is very intense. We understand more than 2 million people We've reportedly watched the first episode this past Sunday. Start by talking to me a little bit about your character, Evangeline, and this season of True Detective.

Oh, man, Evangeline Navarro. She's such a layered and complex character, and she brings so much, actually, softness and vulnerability to this season, I think. The contrast between her and Danvers is just one that sticks to the true Detective, the true, true Detective ways. Evangeline is from a Newpiak and Dominican background. She's part of the community that she patrols. She has a lot of dark secrets, and she's battling between two worlds, not only between being part of the community and also being a police officer or an Alaskan state trooper, but the instinctual spiritual part of the world and the reality part of the world. She's trying to balance those two.

We see Indigenous representation this season with Indigenous actors and Indigenous people's focused story lines. I'm wondering, what does the Indigenous representation mean to you and for the show?

I mean, it's everything. I didn't grow up seeing faces like mine, especially being of mixed Indigenous Wampanoag and Cape Verdean heritage. Just like my character, I walk between two worlds and not being enough for either. We have someone like Lily Gladstone that just knocked down barriers by being the first native artist and actress to win a Golden Globe. So representation is everything. It's time for us to tell our stories, and not just stories in the past. We need contemporary stories, and we need representation not because a box needs to be checked, but because we're good artists and we fit the part. Right.

And your story is particularly amazing. You're the first Indigenous boxing world champion. You've only been acting for a short period of time, relatively speaking. That clip is with Jody Foster. I mean, talk a little bit about working with her so soon in an acting career and how amazing is it?

It's such an amazing opportunity to get this thought I had of trying something new and just getting hit in the ground running, getting pushed in the deep end. I compare it to being able to train with one of the greatest, Mike Tyson in this prime. I mean, I get to learn from this legend, around this legend, see how she operates in her territory, and just being able to collaborate with these storytellers. It was such an honor. She's not only an amazing legend in the acting world, but she's also a legendary human.

We're also seeing that this season, women are really taking the helm of the narrative as of Angeline, military veteran, source of strength and protection for not only her sister, but many other women in the community. How were you able to as an actor, the no-nonsense ferocity and soft vulnerability at the same time. Like I said, you're a new actor, too, and that's a dynamic duo right there.

Navralla's true strength is in her vulnerability and her ability to have a different perspective as well as Danvers and to relate to these victims and the crimes and the criminals in a different way, not just because they're female, but it's just a whole different perspective, not just because the first season was male and they're females, but it's a whole different perspective.

We also learned about the case of Missing Indigenous Woman in the series. As an activist, you have used your platform to advocate for the murdered and Missing Indigenous Women and Girls organization. How did your activism influence your approach to that storyline?

Learning about Issa's work and how she brings Missing Women because she's from Mexico. She's Mexican, and that's a big problem, not just in America. It's Indigenous women, Indigenous people, usually get targeted no matter where you go. Bringing that element into her work naturally and just having When we're doing this activism, we're bringing awareness to MMIW, Missing and Burn Indigenous People with my Boxing platform. It was just another platform to bring this issue, this very serious issue, into front of an audience that wouldn't normally hear about it. Also that the realism of this, it just doesn't happen in just these rural areas. It doesn't happen in just one area. Getting entertained as well as not beating over the head with the issue, but it's getting entertained and also educated at the same time.

Kelly Reece, such a pleasure speaking with you. Thanks so much for coming in. You can watch True Detective: Night Country on HBO Sunday Nights at 9:00 PM Eastern, and also stream, of course, on Max.

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