![]() On the other hand, for Reggie Ledoux, a pedophile with a torso covered in tattoos, Lord says that he had to delve into the iconography of the neo-Nazi movement. Lord, who also practices at the East Side Ink tattoo shop in Manhattan’s Alphabet City, says that, in keeping with the detailed attention to realism that made True Detective so compelling, he was careful to make sure that all the tattoos were appropriate for the show’s Nineties setting, which proved relatively easy given his own experience tattooing bikers during those years. “When we came to try and figure out the Rust Cohle character, we started infusing details about his tattoos with clues into his life prior to the show,” Fukunaga explains. ![]() Later revisions turned the gang into the Iron Crusaders (its members’ tattoos reference anvils, bones, engine parts, and demons), but Rustin’s iconic bird remained. They decided instead to turn to Cohle’s undercover past as a member of a biker gang, whose emblem was originally meant to be a crow. Pizzolatto’s original script called for a pair of flaming dice, but Lord says that he and Fukunaga quickly decided it wasn’t right for his character. In True Detective, the tattoos graduated from decoration to characterization, especially in the case of McConaughey’s Rustin Cohle, a diffcult but brilliant detective who sets out to capture a serial killer with the help of Woody Harrelson’s Martin Hart. “Prior to the show, I had done tattoo work on my first film,” says Fukunaga of 2009’s Sin Nombre, “so I knew how hard it was to get authentic or convincingly real tattoos for a TV show, and, most often, I feel films and TV shows just fail at tattoos.” After first meeting through a mutual friend over dinner, the two quickly took a liking to each other and, when Fukunaga signed on to direct the entire first season of Nic Pizzolatto’s True Detective, he brought Lord on board to help ensure the tattoos had the same sort of detailed realism that runs through the series. If Lord and Fukunaga, whose professional collaboration on True Detective had an unusual depth, banter back and forth like close friends, it’s because they are. So you inspired a whole generation of that same tattoo on people.” To which a visibly amused Fukunaga laughs, “I don’t even know what to say.” “A lot of people have asked from all over the world if they can get copies of it because they want to get tattooed. “I have actually done a few versions of the Rust tattoo on people in real life,” he says to Cary Joji Fukunaga, who directed that series’s first season, of the crow that notably covers the forearm of Matthew McConaughey in True Detective. Night Shyamalan’s The Last Airbender, and, most memorably, the first season of HBO’s True Detective-imitation really is the sincerest form of flattery. ![]() But if you ask Josh Lord-the tattooist behind the (fake) tattoos in Tina Fey and Amy Poehler’s Sisters, the series Blindspot on NBC, M. It is not often that an artist speaks with pride of the many copies his work has inspired. CARY JOJI FUKUNAGA AND TATTOO ARTIST JOSH LORD
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