The unique ‘Friday Night time Lights’ star shared his ideas on taking part within the rebooted highschool soccer drama.
Taylor Kitsch and Zach Gilford in ‘Friday Night time Lights.’
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Taylor Kitsch is open to returning to Friday Night Lights, however he wouldn’t need to keep very lengthy.
With a reboot of the mid-2000s football drama series within the works at Common Tv, Kitsch addressed his potential involvement with the brand new present throughout a Tuesday look on SiriusXM’s The Spotlight with Jessica Shaw. When discussing his forthcoming Netflix sequence American Primeval, which he labored on alongside Friday Night time Lights sequence creator Peter Berg, Kitsch shared that he’d been approached concerning the reboot however that he’d solely return for one episode.
“I’ve been requested and we’ll go away it at that,” Kitsch stated of taking part within the reboot, including that he would “by no means say by no means” to returning however that he’d “do one thing possibly for an episode.”
“I’m all the time flattered … however I don’t need to go and do the entire thing,” he added. “I’d go and have enjoyable, however I don’t need to lead a FNL reboot.”
Regardless of his hesitation to return to the sequence in a full-time capability, Kitsch affirmed that he’d be open to reprising his unique position of Tim Riggins — or debuting a brand new character. “I’d do each,” he stated, including that it may be tough for followers to connect him to a brand new persona within the Friday Night time Lights universe.
“I may create one thing that might be hopefully fairly enjoyable, however I believe when you noticed me as another person, they’d say, ‘That’s Riggins,’” he stated. “I’d go play an opposing crew’s coach or one thing and be on display for like eight seconds. I’d try this.”
The logline for the new Peacock series reads, “Following a devastating hurricane, a ragtag highschool soccer crew and their broken, interim coach make an unlikely bid for a Texas highschool state championship, turning into a beacon of sunshine for his or her city.”
Kitsch starred within the unique sequence alongside Kyle Chandler, Connie Britton, Jesse Plemons, Zach Gilford, Minka Kelly, Gaius Charles, Scott Porter, Aimee Teegarden, Adrianne Palicki and Michael B. Jordan, amongst others.
The brand new sequence will see lots of its unique creatives return, together with creator and pilot director Berg, showrunner Jason Katims and government producer Brian Grazer of Think about Leisure. They may all government produce the sequence alongside Think about’s Kristen Zolner, whereas Katims will function showrunner.
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