Pizzolatto cast Matthew McConaughey as Marty. McConaughey read the script and asked to play Rust instead.
He showed up to the meeting with a 450-page document called "The Four Stages of Rustin Cohle."
Lost Highway was Robert Blake's final film. The film is about a man who may have k*ll*d his wife. Four years after it came out, Blake's real wife was murdered. Blake was charged, then acquitted. One of the strangest postscripts in film history.
Tom Hardy has been sober since 2003, when he was 25 and a doctor told him “you go down that road, Tom, you won’t come back.” Every role you know him for came after he got sober.