Clothes hang on his once-ripped, six-foot frame. His normally tanned skin is wan and grey. He hasn't been able to sleep for weeks, and is fighting chronic exhaustion. “I probably weigh about 150 pounds right now, and I feel like shit,” says the 28-year-old. “I wrote an e-mail to my best friend the other day saying I feel like a 14-year-old pregnant girl, trapped in an alley, with nowhere to go.”

Okay, all weird. The guy who makes women drool as heart-breaking running back Tim Riggins on NBC's Friday Night Lights (which airs on Global in Canada) is likening himself to an impregnated teen? Are his marbles intact?

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Denise in Poway, Calif.: I know it's still early, but do you know anything about the next season of Friday Night Lights yet?

Even though it looks like Riggins is headed to San Antonio State next year, Taylor Kitsch is willing to stick around Dillon. Taylor tells us, "With FNL, it's been an incredible journey and a springboard for me, and I will never say no to them. As long as they'll have Riggins back, I'll be back."

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Hugh Jackman, Ryan Reynolds, Lynn Collins, Taylor Kitsch and Will.i.am shared their playlist selections with ARTISTdirect.com.

 

Wolverine rocks.

Born to be wild, he's easily the most "rock n' roll" of the X-Men Let's break it down: he rides motorcycles, has some gnarly facial hair, is made of metal and smokes cigars like there's no tomorrow. Could he be more of a rock star? Probably not.

That said, it's no surprise that the cast of X-Men Origins: Wolverine spent a lot of time cranking tunes on the set. In order for the actors to get into their respective characters, iPods were constantly blaring. Musical tastes varied between Hugh Jackman, Ryan Reynolds, Lynn Collins and Taylor Kitsch but everyone was bumping something.

"I actually heard a lot of Faith Hill coming out of Hugh's trailer," jested Ryan. To which Hugh responded, "Well, there's a sensitivity to Wolverine, and it's not easy to access [Laughs]."

Check out what they were spinning on set and beyond!

Hugh Jackman (Logan/Wolverine)

1. Godsmack

"When I train, I listen to music that I would rarely listen to—really hard stuff. While I'm working out, I listen to a lot of Godsmack as loud as I can [Laughs]. It's sometimes embarrassing when you're in a public gym [Laughs]. But anyway, that's the closest to Wolverine that I can get."


Ryan Reynolds (Wade Wilson/Dead Pool)

1. The National

"For me, it was a band called The National. I'm obsessed with them; I love their albums!"


Lynn Collins (Kayla Silverfox)

1. One Republic

"I had one song from OneRepublic that I listened to constantly on set. I don't know what it's called, and now I can't listen to it anymore [Laughs]. It ruined the song for me."


Taylor Kitsch (Remy LeBau/Gambit)

1. John Lee Hooker

"Obviously my character's from New Orleans, so I was listening to John Lee Hooker all the time. That was me!"


Will.i.am

1. Black Eyed Peas

"I'm always making music, so I had to stop and focus on set because this was my first big thing. I took my studio there initially. Then I got a whisperer saying, 'Hey Will, you've got to take your studio out of the trailer.' I was making beats on the off time. I made about a thousand beats in between takes [Laughs]."

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Today, April 8th, is Taylor's 28th birthday! 
 
We here at TaylorKitsch.net would like to take this chance to wish Taylor a very happy birthday. We wish him continued success throughout the year, and we hope that he gets all that he's wished for...and more!
 
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Julia, Carol & Kelly

SI.com: What has been your all-time favorite scene to film?

Gilford: I really liked filming all the football stuff for this year's championship game at Memorial Stadium. It really hit Taylor and I both that even if the show stayed on the air and even if we stayed on the show, that was our last time putting on a Panthers uniform. We played every down. We didn't let our doubles do anything. Even if we weren't on camera in that last championship-game episode, we'd run the routes because we knew it would be the last time. So that was really fun. There was a lot of stuff toward the end of this season. It just had a lot of weight to it -- [like] that scene when Taylor and I were on the front lawn of the capital in Austin playing Frisbee.

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The stadium lights will remain lit for the Dillon Panthers, as "Friday Night Lights" will continue to play for two more seasons.

Confirmation that the Friday night drama has been picked up for two 13-episode seasons will be announced any day now, reports Michael Ausiello.

But two of the football femmes will be leaving Dillon, TX.

Tyra Collette (Adrianne Palicki) and Lyla Garrity (Minka Kelly), who was recently cast in CW pilot "Body Politic," will be reduced to part-time gigs, according to Ausiello.

Tyra and Lyla will join the ranks of former starters Brian "Smash" Williams (Gaius Charles) and Jason Street (Scott Porter), who both returned this season to wrap-up their respective storylines.

Hollywood stars Ryan Phillippe, Taylor Kitsch and Malin Akerman have all arrived in South Africa to star filming The Bang- Bang Club.

 

A tight-lipped, moody Phillippe landed at OR Tambo airport in Johannesburg yesterday morning. Kitsch and Akerman arrived on Saturday.

Production of the film — based on the book of the same name, about four South African news photographers and written by Greg Marinovich and Joao Silva — begins this week.

Yesterday, Phillippe, who plays Marinovich, was unhappy with The Times’s presence at the airport, saying he was amazed there were “paparazzi” in South Africa. He then put his sunglasses on and pulled his woollen hat over his eyes.

“Can you believe that after a 23-hour flight, they are here, and I am so tired,” groaned Phillippe.

Kitsch, who plays the late photographer Kevin Carter, was more forthcoming on Saturday. He said he was looking forward to “being busy on the film and will make time to see the country”.

Akerman’s character is loosely-based on that of The Times’ pictures editor, Robin Comley. The blonde actress said she was anxious to get to work and to spend a day with Comley .

“I have been looking forward to working on this film for more than 18 months,” she said.

Akerman and Kitsch spent Sunday afternoon at Moyo restaurant, at Johannesburg’s Zoo Lake.

The Bang-Bang Club is directed by South African-born director Steven Silver, who lives in Canada, and documents the violence of the dying days of apartheid.

The three actors are scheduled to tour the Gauteng townships of Thokoza and Boipatong on Thursday. They will get dialogue coaching from veteran South African actress Fiona Ramsay, who has coached the Hollywood Who’s Who, including Matt Damon, Leonardo di Caprio and Don Cheadle.

 

Click here to see a vid of Taylor (and his co-stars) arriving in South Africa.

 

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VF Daily’s Q&A series features interviews with the top talent from television’s best shows. NBC’s Friday Night Lights is a football drama set in a small town in Texas. It airs Friday nights at nine p.m. E.S.T. Check in with VF.com every Friday for F.N.L. interviews.

Earlier this month we interviewed Taylor Kitsch, who plays flowing-haired fullback Tim Riggins on Friday Night Lights. The ne’er-do-well’s Q&A went straight to our most-popular list, leading us to believe that VF Daily has considerably more football fans than we originally thought. This week we revisit the town Lothario with a second cut of the interview. Catch a new episode of F.N.L. tonight.

VF Daily: Wow, you have a strong Canadian accent. Was it difficult for you to master the Texas drawl?

Taylor Kitsch: I’ve had to do accents a lot and it’s something I take extremely seriously. I had dialect training even before I went to Austin to shoot the pilot. I’m thankful to have it to play this kid. Having that Texas accent pulls you right into the character.

Did you read for any of the other F.N.L. roles?

I read for Jason Street, but I really wanted to play Riggins. Weeks later, they called me back to read for Riggins. And, well, we kind of hit that one out of the park. I can’t imagine the cast any other way. Everyone has found their niche.

When Season Three begins, Lyla and Riggins are back together. How do you think that happened?

Tim just waited for the Bible thing to fizzle down with that other guy. He convinced himself that wasn’t real. Besides, it was six months. Give that cat six months to work on someone! He did his thing. He chipped away at it. And, finally, she just cracked.

Coach Taylor is asked to describe your character in one word this season. He says “fortitude.” What word would you use?

Oh man, that’s so good. One word to describe Riggs? “Perseverance.” He has to have it. He has no trust in his family, so he has to just keep going and going, just working it out for himself.

At one point, there was a question about whether your character could read. Did you buy that?

No, not for a second. He can get away with anything and everything in that town, and at that school. It’s just a lack of effort. He doesn’t care. People just take it for granted that he’s an idiot.

In the upcoming film Wolverine, you play Gambit. The character is a big deal in the comic-book world. Did you know that when you were cast?

I was reminded right when I got the part! I love that pressure. I trained for four months with cards. I learned how to use a bo staff. I know Gambit inside out. I just saw a good chunk of the movie and I’m pretty happy with it. I think the biggest thing for me is to be able to walk away without saying I would have done this or that differently. This time, I can truly say that.

Do you think there will be a spin-off?

I hope we can go another round or two. Knock on wood! If the fans want it, it could happen. The fans have the power.

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As Tim Riggins on Friday Night Lights, he's a tough guy with a tender heart—just like in real life.

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Malin Akerman, Ryan Phillippe and Taylor Kitsch – soon to be seen as Gambit in the forthcoming X-Men Origins: Wolverine – have signed on to star in the indie drama, The Bang Bang Club.

The Bang Bang Club was a group of four South African combat photographers who became renowned for their stark depictions of violence during the last days of apartheid.

The photographers were Kevin Carter, Ken Oosterbroek, Greg Marinovich, and Joao Silva. Only Marinovich and Silva are still alive today – Oosterbroek was killed by friendly fire in 1994, while Carter committed suicide in July of that same year, shortly after receiving the Pulitzer Prize for Feature Photography.

In fact, Marinovich and Silva wrote the memoir, on which The Bang Bang Club will be based, with South African documentarian Steven Silver writing and directing. Filming will start next month on location in and around Johannesburg.

Phillippe will play Marinovich, while Kitsch will play Carter, who was, of course, the subject of a song on the Manic Street Preachers’ 1996 album Everything Must Go (“Hi, Time Magazine/Hi, Pulitzer Prize…”).

Akerman, commendably going down the indie route when she could reasonably be expected to nab another blockbuster after Watchmen’s success, will play a photo editor who dealt with the Club.

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