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The staff of TaylorKitsch.net wish to apologize to Taylor, and to all of Taylor's fans, for the lack of recent updates to the site. Rest assured that this site is not going anywhere, (in fact, a total revamping of the site is currently in the works.) and that regular updates will resume shortly!
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We thank you for your patience and understanding, and we hope that you will continue to visit us and make TaylorKitsch.net one of the BEST Taylor Kitsch sites online today!
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The nominations for Choice Male Hottie at the Teen Choice Awards are in! Congratulations to Taylor Kitsch, who now faces competition from Robert Pattinson, Zac Efron, Chase Crawford and the Jonas Brothers to become Choice Male Hottie and take his surfboard award home with pride.
Visit the Teen Choice awards website below for more information, and remember to vote for Taylor!
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In X-Men Origins: Wolverine, actors Taylor Kitsch and Lynn Collins didn't share much screen time. However, that's going to change in John Carter of Mars.
Variety reports the two Wolverine stars will reunite in the Disney movie. It will be the live-action debut of Wall-E director Andrew Stanton, who also co-wrote the script.
Kitsch will play the title character, a Civil War veteran who is
mysteriously transported to Mars. There he finds the dying planet is
experiencing its own racial war. Collins will play the Princess of Mars.
John Carter of Mars starts shooting early next year.
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Hot Bad Boy: Taylor Kitsch
Taylor Kitsch is so good-looking and talented, it's hard to
imagine that he ever wanted for anything, let alone a nice warm
bed. But Kitsch, the long-haired and handsome star of NBC's
Friday Night Lights spent some time, not so many years
ago, sleeping on New York City subways while he struggled to find
modeling work. "The funny thing is you don't really think about it
when you're in the shit," Kitsch says. "I just didn't want to leave
New York."
The Canadian-born actor started out with a different sort of
fantasy: he wanted to be a pro hockey player. But after an injury
he dropped out of college (where he studied nutrition) and moved to
New York to make it big in modeling. After a rough start —
first the subway home, then a tenement apartment he shared with a
horde of other models — Kitsch started getting tiny parts in
big movies. Covenant, Snakes on a Plane and
John Tucker Must Die were all small breaks until finally
he was cast as Tim Riggins in Pete Berg's critically acclaimed
Friday Night Lights.
Since then, Kitsch has been living in Austin, playing TV's most
beloved — and hottest — alcoholic football player. When
he's off set, Kitsch rides his motorcycle to small towns and
explores, and plays league sports with the locals. "I definitely
have a pieces of me like Riggins — my father was never in my
life," he says. "I've had curve balls thrown at me."
Now Kitsch is shooting a big feature film in Africa, playing
Pulitzer-prize winning war photographer Kevin Carter in The
Bang Bang Club. The role is a graduation of sorts from
beautiful tortured young man to a truly tortured man who documented
terrible genocide. Kitsch read for the part and freaked out. "I was
scared shitless to take this on. And that's when you know you're
doing something right." Link
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 Taylor attended the Cannes Film Festival this past week-end to help promote his new movie, 'The Bang, Bang Club'.
Also in attendance were his 'Bang, Bang Club' co-stars, Ryan Philippe and Malin Akerman.
To view pics from the event, click here!
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From the Globe & Mail...
Taylor Kitsch, the Kelowna, B.C.-born hunk who's been the cover boy for
Men's Health magazine (twice) and most recently hit the big screen as
the muscle-bound Gambit in
X-Men Origins: Wolverine is literally – and quite deliberately – wasting away.
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?
As it turns out, a surreal head space is exactly where Kitsch wants to be.
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From Watch With Kristin...
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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 TEMPE — It was easy to mistake this city for Hollywood Monday
night. Thousands of moviegoers swarmed into the Tempe Marketplace strip
mall to hail the world premiere of “X-Men Origins: Wolverine.”
After keeping the roped-off crowd north of the mall waiting for
nearly 45 minutes after the schedule red carpet start time of 5 p.m.,
the movie’s star Hugh Jackman dazzled the crowd by rolling into the
frenzy on a motorcycle.
Helmetless and using one hand to steer while waving with the
other, Jackman took the stage and thanked the crowd for showing up so
enthusiastically to support the movie.
“It’s great to be here,” Jackman said. “You voted for it and you won it and I'm so proud to be here.”
Jackman had to dodge outstretched arms of the masses as he tried
to conduct interviews. He reached over a temporary fence to sign
autographs.
Tempe’s Harkins Tempe Marketplace hosted the premiere thanks to a
unique contest in which fans nationwide competed against one another by
voting to bring the premiere to their ZIP codes. Tempe’s 85281 won out
over about 1,300 competitors.
The audience was good-natured and boisterous. Many fans dressed up
in toy Wolverine claws, face paint or in full costume, and several
carried signs, one which read “I didn’t download the movie,” referring
to the film's widespread Internet pirating. The movie opens in theaters
Friday.
Tempe Mayor Hugh Hallman and Harkins Theatres owner Dan Harkins
were among the most satisfied Valley residents because they led the
campaign that brought the premiere to Tempe. Hallman and Harkins worked
in concert to drum up support from their high-powered friends and
spread publicity about the contest.
One of the most excited fans was 9-year-old Phoenician Stephen
Green, who coaxed his mother, Kathy Green, to wait with him for four
hours just for the chance to see the stars, which included Liev
Schreiber, Ryan Reynolds, Will i Am of the Black Eyed Peas and Taylor
Kitsch (“Friday Night Lights”). Other celebrities not involved with the
movie were on hand, including Phoenix toy and comic book magnate Todd
McFarlane, Don “Wolf” Yates of “American Gladiators” and rock star
Alice Cooper.
“I’m excited to see the movie stars,” Stephen Green said. “I’ve seen the other X-Men movies and I really want to see this one.”
Another geeked-up Jackman fan was Jesus Delgado, a 19-year-old Art
Institute of Phoenix student, who heard about the contest while
watching TV news Monday morning. He wedged his way up to the front of
the crowd while donning a shirt emblazoned with a leaping Wolverine.
“This is a really big deal,” said Delgado, who showed up at 2 p.m.
— five hours before the movie was scheduled to start. “It’s been really
fun.”
Jackman who is fresh off of hosting the Oscars, was one-upped by
Hallman, who took the stage in a fist-pumping fervor reminiscent of a
WWE announcer.
He and the other cast members flew into Phoenix close to 5 p.m. and were scheduled to depart Monday night. “To quote Wolverine, we’re the best we are at what we do,” Hallman
said while giving Jackman an honorary sign that gave him access to any
parking space in the city and declaring April 27, 2009, as “X-Men Day.”
“This will not be the last premiere in Tempe.”
To view pics from this event, click here!
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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!
Cheers,
Julia, Carol & Kelly
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SI.com: Sara Nguyen, of
Harrisburg, Pa., asks, "Of all the actors on the show, who do you think
would be picked highest in an NFL draft? Scott Porter [Jason Street]?
Gaius Charles [Smash Williams]? Taylor Kitsch [Tim Riggins]?"
Gilford:
Probably Taylor. He's a good athlete, but Scott will kill me for saying
that. Scott played football growing up and he has a good arm, but
Taylor is faster and I think that would help his draft status.
SI.com: Do you have any bizarre fan stories, since the people who watch the show are so passionate about it?
Gilford:
Not really. But since we were talking about Facebook, I thought I had
Taylor as one of my friends on Facebook. And then one day we were
talking and Facebook came up and he said, "Yeah, I've never been on
there." And I was like, "Really, I have you as a friend." Someone had
made a fake Taylor page, so I had to delete "him" right away.
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.
To read the full interview, click here! (*WARNING* - Article does contain some spoilers!)
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From Shrink Blog...
Yes, it's no coincidence that I heap on mucho praise for FNL on
Fridays with the hope that it will encourage more people to tune in
that evening (9pm on NBC). This has been a solid A season and I would
love for more people to get the chance to enjoy it.
Last week, I sang the praises of Adrianne Palicki,
one of the younger cast members, who plays Tyra Collette. This week,
it's time to give long overdue props to Taylor Kitsch, the guy who
plays Tim Riggins.
Riggins is such a lived in,
realistic character that you forget the guy is acting. Kitsch gives
the character such nuance and texture that you believe this is a real
person, not a television character. Tim Riggins is smarter than he
seems, sadder than he lets on, and a better man than he acts like. To
pull all this off takes tremendous acting ability. Kitsch does it in a
way that looks absolutely effortless. He has created one of the best
characters on network television.
Everyone around him says that Taylor Kitsch is going to be a big star. With his role as Gambit in the upcoming X-Men Origins
movie, he just moved onto the launch pad. This guy can play drama,
comedy, action. There's a good chance he will be kind of a big deal
soon (Anchorman reference), but you can catch him every week on TV's
most under-watched great show, Friday Night Lights.
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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.
As for the format, the show will again be shown on DirecTV first, followed by NBC, reports TV Squad.
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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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