Vince Vaughn to star alongside Colin Farrell in True Detective, HBO confirms

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HBO has confirmed that Colin Farrell and Vince Vaughn will star in the second season of its hit series True Detective.

The Tuesday announcement also provides details on both actors’ characters. Farrell will play Ray Velcoro, whom HBO says is “a compromised detective whose allegiances are torn between his masters in a corrupt police department, and the mobster who owns him.”

Vaughn – whose most recent work includes The Internship and Delivery Man – will play Frank Seymon, “a career criminal in danger of losing his empire when his move into legitimate enterprise is upended by the murder of a business partner.”

Farrell confirmed he would be appearing in the series over the weekend in an interview with Ireland’s Sunday World.

Both actors were rumored to be cast in the series, along with others including Brad Pitt, Jessica Chastain and Christian Bale – each of whom denied they would be a part of the show.

Series creator Nic Pizzolatto said in June that “literally, not a single rumor about casting that has been printed anywhere has any truth to it whatsoever.”