Creator Nic Pizzolatto recently said he had an idea for another season starring Harrelson and Matthew McConaughey: “I think the guys are open to it.”

Woody Harrelson says he’d ‘never’ return to True Detective: ‘Not a chance’

Creator Nic Pizzolatto recently said he had an idea for another season starring Harrelson and Matthew McConaughey: "I think the guys are open to it."

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Woody Harrelson on 'True Detective'. Credit:

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Woody Harrelson has no interest in doing another season of *True Detective.*

Only a few months after creator Nic Pizzolatto shared he had a new idea for a season starring Harrelson and Matthew McConaughey, Harrelson has revealed in a new interview that he "never" wants to return to the HBO series.

On Friday's *3rd Hour of Today*, host Dylan Dreyer told Harrelson that McConaughey said he and Harrelson would be into doing another season if they "think it's good enough."

Matthew McConaughey and Woody Harrelson on 'True Detective'.

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"Matthew’s so funny," Harrelson said in response. "But in fairness, never. Not a chance."

Harrelson added that he only has positive reasons for not wanting to reprise his role of Det. Marty Hart in the mystery thriller drama.

"Because it turned out great," he said. "I love that it turned out the way it did. If anything, doing another season would, I think, tarnish that."

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Harrelson's comments come as a surprise because earlier this year, Pizzolatto revealed that he has an idea for a new season of the show that would bring Harrelson and McConaughey back as Marty Hart and Rust Cohle, respectively. At the time, the former showrunner claimed that there were ongoing conversations with the actors about it.

"I actually have another story for Cohle and Hart that, who knows, maybe we’ll do it one day," Pizzolatto said on the *Nothing Left Unsaid* podcast in May. "It's character-based again.... But it's not something I've written or anything. It’s just [that] I had that in my head, and we've talked about getting back together and doing it. I think the guys are open to it. It's just a question of whether that would ever happen or not."

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Harrelson and McConaughey starred in the first season of the HBO anthology series* *in 2014. The series won five Emmys for that season, and both actors were nominated for their performances.

*True Detective *continued in subsequent seasons with all-new casts, led by Colin Farrell, Rachel McAdams, Mahershala Ali, Taylor Kitsch, Vince Vaughn, Jodie Foster, and more.

Harrelson and McConaughey will next be seen together in the new Apple TV+ comedy series *Brother From Another Mother*, playing fictionalized versions of themselves living together on McConaughey’s Texas ranch. A release date has not yet been set.**

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