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"Scratch Jessica Chastain from the very long list of top-tier actresses who may take a lead role in the second season of HBO\u2019s True Detective.\nThat\u2019s the upshot of a hot rumor, first started Tuesday by Nerdist, that the Oscar-nominated star of Zero Dark Thirty was offered the gig.\nSEE ALSO: 8-Bit 'True Detective' Solves Yellow King Case in 90 Seconds\nPeople with knowledge of the situation tell Mashable that it\u2019s not happening, and Chastain\u2019s publicist, who did not immediately return our messages Wednesday, wrote in an email to The Wrap that \u201Cshe\u2019s not doing this project officially.\"\nSo here\u2019s what we now know so far about the second installment of the anthology series:\n\nA woman will get a front-and-center role, per series creator Nic Pizzolatto, who told HitFix in an interview that it will be about \u201Chard women, bad men and the secret occult history of the U.S. transportation system.\"\nThat woman will not be Jessica Chastain.\nThat woman could be literally anyone else.\nStars from season one, Matthew McConaughey and Woody Harrelson, won\u2019t be in it either.\n\nMaddening, right? But so it goes with True Detective, whose original mythology was inspired by a story about a story that supposedly drives all those who read it insane.\u00A0Expect more of the same from this casting carousel, and by carousel we mean a sort of flat circle that just goes around and around. (We don't know the premiere date of season two, either.)\nHave something to add to this story? Share it in the comments."^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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