“True Detective”: Jodie Foster wins Emmy for best actress in a miniseries

Jodie Foster is officially an Emmy winner. The veteran actress took home her first trophy from the TV Academy on Sunday night, winning Lead Actress in a Miniseries for her role in “True Detective: Night Country.”

After Lily Gladstone and Greta Lee Foster presented the golden statuette at the Peacock Theater in Los Angeles, the actress was very excited in this “emotional moment” because she immediately blurted out the name of the HBO series and called it “True Detective: North Country.”

Foster recovered quickly, saying producing the show was a “magical experience and everything comes from the top,” thanking “Night Country” creator Issa López, the crew and her co-star Kali Reis.

Foster said she particularly wanted to focus on the Inuit people of northern Alaska. (Although the show was filmed in Iceland, it is set in Alaska and the team traveled there for research.) “They just told us their stories and let us listen, and that was just a blessing. It was love, love, love. And when you feel that, something amazing happens. It's deep and wonderful and it's older than this place and this time. That's just the message, which is love and work equals art.”

“True Detective: Night Country” was the most nominated HBO series at this year's Emmys with 19 nominations. Foster played the lead role of Detective Liz Danvers in the fourth season of the anthology crime drama.

At the beginning of the year it opened for diversity during “Actors on Actors” with Robert Downey Jr. and recalled filming in Alaska and Iceland. She described a scene where she broke through the ice and explained that it was not easy despite her years of experience as an actress.

“We shot this in a big tank. And it's completely dark, maybe 50 meters below. I'm working with a freediver who says, 'This is how we hold our breath so we can keep going down. I'll be sideways. If they say 'cut,' I can swim to you and save you.' They weighted down every vest so I couldn't come to the surface, and I had big boots on,” she said. “What I didn't expect was that I couldn't see anything in front of me. It was actually my worst nightmare. Usually when you predict something like 'This is going to be bad,' it's the opposite. But when I got there, it was bad.”

Foster, who was also nominated as a producer of “Night Country,” competed in the acting category against Brie Larson (“Lessons in Chemistry”), Juno Temple (“Fargo”), Sofia Vergara (“Griselda”) and Naomi Watts (“Fued: Capote vs. The Swans”).