» If HBO had wanted an option on me for a Season 2 or 3, I wouldn’t have done it. I wouldn’t have walked into something where they could say, ‘We’ve got you for the next three years.’ I liked ‘True Detective,’ the whole series and the experience of making it, so much that I’d be open to doing another one now.” — Matthew McConaughey

If HBO had wanted an option on me for a Season 2 or 3, I wouldn’t have done it. I wouldn’t have walked into something where they could say, ‘We’ve got you for the next three years.’ I liked ‘True Detective,’ the whole series and the experience of making it, so much that I’d be open to doing another one now.” — Matthew McConaughey

June 5, 2014

by Grantland Staff

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