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Friday Night Light's Taylor Kitsch tackles questions about living in Austin, getting hooked on Wolverine and playing the field.
In between scoring on-and off-the football field as sexy senior Tim Riggins on NBC's Friday Night Light's, Taylor Kitsch managed to jet to Australia last year to squeeze in his first major role in a feature film. And it's a doozy. Kitsch will face off against Hugh Jackman as Marvel Comics bad boy Gambit in May's "X-Men Origins: Wolverine". There's even early talk of spinning Gambit off into his own film. TV Guide chatted up the former model, 28, on his cell phone as he was loading groceries into his truck outside an Austin supermarket.
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Lynn Hirschberg speaks with Eric Dane, Joshua Jackson, Bill Hader, Taylor Kitsch and Gaius Charles.
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Gospel Hill is now available on DVD! Be sure to check your local video stores, or order your own copy here.
You can also see what Taylor has to say about his role as Joel Herrod in Gospel Hill, here.
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Hollywood prognosticators are saying that 2009 will be Taylor Kitsch's year and laineygossip.com couldn't be happier.
According
to Lainey, "Those of you who keep ignoring my Friday Night Lights posts
will find out soon enough after Wolverine the quiver you have been
missing. And, better still, that he's not likely to go the Robert
Pattinson-Los Angeles route."
"He's Canadian. He grew up playing hockey. From Victoria to St. John's, that's an instant aphrodisiac."
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FNL's Riggins (Taylor Kitsch) and Lyla (Minka Kelly) have been nominated for the Sexiest Couple award, in TV Guide's "Sexiest" poll.
Click here to cast your vote, and be sure to check out the March 30th issue of TV Guide Magazine to see who won.
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Beginning Sunday, viewers across the nation can witness the origins of
one of the year’s most anticipated movies, when Twentieth Century Fox
debuts an exclusive, three-part reveal of X-Men Origins: Wolverine on FOX.
For
this unprecedented promotional event – which is too big for one night –
the studio has created three special 60-second spots, one leading into
the next, and which together form a narrative. The first spot airs this
Sunday (February 15) on “Family Guy,” the second on Monday (Feb. 16) on
“House,” and the third on Tuesday (Feb. 17) on “American Idol.”
Following Tuesday’s broadcast of the final spot, all three reveals will be released on Yahoo!
Click here to watch the video featuring Taylor's character, Gambit.
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Universal Studios Home Entertainment recently announced that following FNL's re-run on NBC, the 13 episode season will come to DVD in a 4 disc set on May 19th 2009.
There has been no word yet about bonus material, etc. but we will keep you updated. So be sure to check back regularly!
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When the TV series Friday Night Lights launched three years
ago, the character of Tim Riggins was a womanizing, no-homework-doing
burnout who happened to be gifted on the football field. But
Canadian-born actor Taylor Kitsch has brought vulnerability and depth
to the role that Riggins has become a favorite Dillon, Texas resident,
as he shows tremendous will amid a broken home, perennial heartbreak,
and desperate dealings with the town's seedy underbelly. The show
struck a deal to air its third season on DirecTV; that run ended a few
weeks ago, but those 13 episodes are currently screening Friday nights
on NBC for those without satellite dishes. Meanwhile, Kitsch is keeping
busy: He just finished filming X-Men Origins: Wolverine (he plays Gambit), and he's been spending a lot of time in his dual homes of Austin and Vancouver. The A.V. Club recently tracked down the former model to talk about his love affair with FNL and the running joke he has about Samuel L. Jackson.
The A.V. Club: You've been getting a lot of attention about a
moment from late in season three: Your teary reaction shot upon saying
goodbye to Jason Street. What do you remember about filming that scene?
Taylor Kitsch: I remember filming that moment probably 98 percent better than any scene I've done on FNL.
It was just really—it was a tough scene. I think from the beginning,
I've had a really good connection with who Jason Street was to this
guy. And reading it on the page, Six [actor Scott Porter, who plays
Street] and I knew it was this kind of a scene. And as scary as that
was for [executive producer Jeffrey] Reiner directing, I was really
stuck on doing that much, and showing that much for Riggins, instead of
him intrinsically dealing with things. I don't have many great moments
in season three. I'm very much a supporting role in everyone's
storylines, and when you do get those moments, you just want to knock
them out of the park. That was probably my favorite moment of the year;
that's pretty much why I do the gig.
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NBC.com has a new video up of Taylor (and other FNL stars) saying goodbye to fellow cast mate, Gaius Charles (aka Smash Williams).
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Please tell me that Friday Night Lights will be back next season. -- LaToya
Ausiello: FNL will be back provided
all (or most) of the 4.6 million people that tuned in for last Friday's
debut on NBC stick around for the entire season. And they'd be fools
not to.
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From the 'Who's News Blog'...
I think it's ridiculous that none of the cast of the brilliant television series Friday Night Lights,
which premieres on NBC tonight with its third season, has won an Emmy.
This is a network series as strong as any of those on basic and pay
cable that get so much critical love. Connie Britton and Kyle Chandler
are flawless as a married couple at the center of it all and the actors
who play all the young people in Dillon, Texas — well, let's just say
this isn't Gossip Girl.
There are three football players who make your heart ache: Zach Gilford,
who plays quarterback Matt Saracen, a lost boy with way too much
responsibility; Scott Porter, as former star quarterback Jason Street,
whose devastating injury in the first season left him wheelchair-bound;
and Taylor Kitsch, who plays talented fullback Tim Riggins, the handsome bad boy all the girls want to convert.
Our Brian Truitt, a recent FNL convert, caught up with Kitsch, who's Canadian, on the Vancouver set of his new movie, X-Men Origins: Wolverine, starring Hugh Jackman. The two talked about what it takes to be Riggins, his female fan base
and playing a comic book character on the big screen.
What should fans expect out of Riggins in the third season?
Riggins
is very supportive this year. He doesn’t have his own storyline: He’s
supporting his brother in his marriage and he sees Jason Street off and
sees him moving forward. I just love playing Riggs so much. If you give
me something small, we can make it so great because you can go anywhere
with him. And you’ve gotta expect the unexpected with him, you know?
Is everything about Riggs written, or are some of those trademark Riggins-isms improvised?
Fifty
percent of that is me doing it. This year, his saying is “No regrets,
let’s make some memories” — that’s all me. All the stuff on the field,
90 percent of it comes from my take on him and how I want people to see
him. Usually, when you feel it’s improvised, it’s a piece of the
character I’ve created. That’s the freedom we have and that’s why
everyone can relate and it feels so real.
If 50 percent of Riggins is you improvising, how much of
your own personality is in there? Where does Tim Riggins stop and
Taylor Kitsch start?
That’s a good question. Playing this
guy for three years, I’m pretty in tune with his instincts and
everything, but any character I play, there’s gonna be pieces of me
that I hide well and some I may not. I try now more and more to stay
away from my own idiosyncrasies and create them character-wise. But,
that dry sense of humor? That’s me as well. Of course, I’m living
vicariously through this cat. I never was like that in high school —
obviously, I would have loved to have been and get away with the
[stuff] he gets away with. [laughs] The leadership stuff is a lot of me
because I grew up being an athlete, and he kinda comes into his own as
leader, in his own way. Obviously, I wouldn’t have made choices he made
being the captain of this football team, but it's his own way of
dealing with things, or not dealing with things, which is more
interesting to me as an actor. I've been asking for that part of him
for years, and it’s evolved the right way. He comes into it in the last
bit of season three, where he recognizes his role and the coach calls
him out on it and he sees it for what it is, finally.
Is Friday Night Lights as popular in Canada as down here?
I
think we get it on TV, but when I do interviews up here, sure, the
press and whatnot know the show and my popularity, and being the only
Canadian, I feel the support. But it’s really funny, I was just in New
York doing some press, and kind of got bombarded at a hockey game. I’ll
walk down the hall there and people will be screaming “No regrets!” and
“Riggins!” and this and that. And then you come here and they have no
idea.
Riggins is quite the ladies’ man on the show. Do you have the screaming
female fans wherever you go in America, armed with camera phones and
such?
I’ve
been fortunate enough to kind of skip that demographic of the tweens
and the early teenagers. A lot of it is women and they know I’m 27,
too, so it’s kind of an ongoing joke. They convince themselves that
it’s not creepy to like Riggins. [laughs] So that’s been pretty fun.
It’s more than flattering and they’re very genuine in saying, “Hey,
look, he’s such a great character and we all wish we could fix
Riggins.” A lot of women see it that way. I did an interview in New
York and the gal was like, “It’s funny because there’s like the Riggins
cult for women and the Saracen cult for him because he’s the good,
trusting guy.” Yeah, Riggins isn’t gonna be your boyfriend. You know
what Riggins is? He’s that weekend that you’ll never forget.
In Canada, did you play hockey in high school instead of football?
Yep,
hockey 20 years. I played at a really competitive level and I still
play a couple times a week — I’m actually even in a men’s league in
Austin. I don’t think NBC really knows that but that’s OK. Even Porter,
when he’s in Austin, we’ll get an intense flag football game going.
I saw that Scott’s a really big comic book fan. Was he pretty envious when you got the role of Gambit in Wolverine?
I
know he read for it. He’s always been like, “Kitsch, you’re so perfect
for Gambit.” Ironically enough, he texted me last night after he saw
the trailer and he just congratulated me. He’s more pumped than me to
see it. He’s a [freakin’] huge fan, man. He’s part of that group: He
goes to the comic cons and I live vicariously through him in all that.
When I went and read for it, I talked to him about the character and my
ears were bleeding because he can go on for hours about any comic book
guy. The biggest thing for me is doing this justice. Being with Hugh
and everything else, it’s not called Gambit: Origins. I want to come into Wolverine and contribute to Jackman’s movie the best I can and I feel I’ve done everything I could possible to bring this guy to life.
So ... fourth season of Friday Night Lights. Is it going to happen?
This
season turned out really well. As a cast, we were super happy with how
it ended and it felt more real than it has for a long time. I’m
excited. I think it could return, but you just never know.
If NBC wanted to do a Riggins spinoff series, would you do it?
Probably,
man. I love that character. But it would have to be done the right way,
my way. I don’t know if you could even pluck Riggins out and make him
just his own show. He would definitely have to have an incredible cast
around him, like any good show. I love him, man, and that’s just
flattering that people can think he’s that fun where you could watch
him for a full hour.
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Just a reminder that 'Friday Night Lights' returns tonight on NBC at 9/8C. Be sure to tune in!
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There’s an episode in the new season of Friday Night Lights in
which Tim Riggins, the bad boy with a goldenish heart, visits New York
with his wheelchair-bound friend Jason Street. The odd couple roams
midtown in search of a decent suit for a job interview. Riggins is
supposed to look like a Texas fish out of water—the local football star
from the depressed fictional town of Dillon cut down to size by the
big, slick city. And yet as he ambles through Times Square, surrounded
by pedestrian extras, ridiculously hot even in his Hicksville plaid
shirt, he just can’t help looking like a star.
When
the actor who plays him walks into the lobby of the Tribeca Grand
Hotel, it’s even more apparent. Knit cap pulled down low over his eyes,
jeans professionally ripped just so, Taylor Kitsch is the picture of
nonchalant New York chic. He jokes that he just got out of hair and
makeup: “Some people would say I’m vain.” For a split second, there’s
Riggins, the smart-ass, deadly charming underachiever of Dillon High
School. But it’s a quick whiff; there’s not much Riggins in Kitsch—or
at least no obvious signs of alcoholism or selfishness, and certainly
no reticence. He talks about his role within the cast. “I’m the guy who
throws curveball,” he says. “I like to break people.” I ask what that
means. “You know how Riggins has sex with a lot of gals? So I’ll come
up to Kyle [Chandler, who plays Coach Taylor] while we’re filming a
game scene with some sexual itch as a joke and try to break him—make
him laugh,” says Kitsch. And then he giggles, which, if you’re familiar
with the brooding Riggins, is a little unnerving.
TV’s
long tradition of the soulful, misunderstood loner is nothing new, but
the ability to launch a career from such a role is rare: Johnny Depp (21 Jump Street) and James Franco (Freaks and Geeks) are notable exceptions. Peter Berg, who created Friday Night Lights,
thinks Kitsch has the goods. “He’s a ridiculous, unreal mix of acting
talent and outrageous good looks.” Or as one of my friends put it,
“Riggins is sex.”
Kitsch
is surprised (or does a good job of feigning it) when I refer to his
legion of female fans. “Women want to save Riggins,” is his explanation
for his popularity. “A child psychologist wrote and said she uses my
character in therapy—the troubled kids can relate to him. It’s the most
flattering fan mail I’ve ever gotten,” he says.
Very nice, but that’s not what got him a starring role alongside Hugh Jackman in 2009’s sure-to-be blockbuster X-Men Origins: Wolverine
(in theaters May 1). “It was a fucking battle,” he says of landing
ladies’ man–mutant Gambit. He flubbed his first reading because he was
tired. “But I got my managers to get me back in because I knew I could
crush the role.”
Kitsch,
who is 27 to his character’s 18, grew up playing hockey in British
Columbia and dropped out of a local college to pursue modeling in New
York. “IMG told me they had an apartment for me, and I was like, ‘Shit,
sweet, New York.’ So I came, and there were nine other guys living in
the two-bedroom apartment with me. I slept in the hallway.” To pay the
bills, he worked as a personal trainer and nutritionist. “I was so poor
that at one point I was sleeping on the subway,” he says. Kitsch
eventually got a role in the horror flick The Covenant, which led to the Friday Night Lights audition.
“I
don’t know if I can really get much more out of the show, but I love it
and I’m there as long as they want me,” says Kitsch, who’s happy the
new season is reverting to the tone of the first after some
unsatisfying attempts to lure more viewers with soapier plotlines.
“Season 2 was kind of written off for me,” he says. “I’m reading it
going, ‘Really, we’re going to put fucking shark in Jason’s spine and
he thinks it’s going to work?’ ” Surely he’s also happy that his
character will make football captain. Kitsch laughs. “Finally, he’s
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Hut. Hut. Huuuuuut.
Another season of Friday Night Lights is
about to be hiked. The critically lauded series follows the dramas —
both on-field and off — of a small, football crazed, Texan town.
Vancouver native Taylor Kitsch, 28, plays Tim Riggins — a troubled
football star and the resident teen heartthrob in Dillon, Texas. Kitsch
recently talked about FNL's third season and its unique,
improvisational, on-set culture.
Q: What does Friday Night Lights get right about teenage life?
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We look at it from a broader perspective (than just teens). From the
get go, it's (about) how people deal with tragedy — dealing with things
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Sponsorship packages are available for the Inaugural Screening of Gospel Hill, January 18th in Washington, DC in tribute to Barack Obama, 44th President of the United States.
Benefits include:
- VIP tickets to screening
- VIP tickets to celebrity gala
- VIP tickets to inaugural galas
- Giancarlo Esposito, Denzel Washington, Spike Lee, Julia Stiles, Taylor Kitsch, Queen Latifah, Danny Glover, Angela Bassett and many more in attendance.
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