The female lead role in Season 2 of HBO's True Detective has reportedly been offered to one of the top actresses rumored to be joining the cast.

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Mean Girls star Rachel McAdams is allegedly being offered the female lead role in True Detective, according to Variety's sources. The actress had previously been rumored to be in the running for the highly coveted role.

Additionally, Friday Night Lights actor Taylor Kitsch is anticipated to nab the fourth and final lead role in Season 2.

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The female lead role that McAdams might be nabbing has been buzzed about for several months. There was some criticism in the first season of True Detective for the show not having strong female roles, and though there were initial rumors that the series would focus on two female leads in Season 2, this did not come to pass.

HBO announced Tuesday that Colin Farrell and Vince Vaughn would be two of the leads in Season 2. They also released a logline for the new season: "Three police officers and a career criminal must navigate a web of conspiracy in the aftermath of a murder."

Farrell will be playing one of the police officers, Ray Velcoro. Ray is a detective "whose allegiances are torn between his masters in a corrupt police department and the mobster who owns him."

Meanwhile, Vaughn will play the career criminal who is "in danger of losing his empire when his move into legitimate enterprise is upended by the murder of a business partner."

Based on the logline, it seems that McAdams and Kitsch will be playing the other two police officers.

True Detective Season 2 is expected to premiere in Summer 2015.

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