One of Blindie’s Ga Ga Guys Taylor Kitsch is making the promotion rounds for his No. 1 blockbuster X-Men Origins: Wolverine–and his latest pitch is to Entertainment Weekly.
While Kitsch’s day job is playing the broodingly sexy Tim Riggins on NBC’s fantastic drama Friday Night Lights, he said, “Not seeing Riggins in Gambit was incredibly important to me.”
The TV hunk may be getting major buzz for his big screen jump, but he says he’ll “never say no to” FNL because of all it’s done for him.
Up next for the talented hunk? Playing suicidal Pulitzer Prize winner Kevin Carter in The Bang-Bang Club, which he’s shooting in South Africa and dropped 30 lbs. for.
Like this season’s arrangement, the next two seasons will first air on DirecTV and later on NBC. Yes, we non-DirecTV peeps will be sad to get the episodes later in the season, but it’s better than being canceled!
“The reality is that to have the opportunity to create something new with [this show] every day is just the greatest gift,” show star Connie Britton (who plays the coach’s wife and school principal) said before the news broke. “It would be great if we had another season.”
The only sad thing is current Dylan High seniors, including Taylor Kitsch’s Riggins, Minka Kelly’s Lyla, Zach Gilford’s Matt Saracen and Adrianne Palicki’s Tyra, are graduating and may be moving on from the show!
In a TMen’s cover story called “Tomorrow’s Big-Screen Stars Are on TV”, Kitsch and Charles are among the actors highlighted in the dapper photo spread.
Charles, who plays Smash Williams on the small town football drama, says his role model is Christopher Plummer from The Sound of Music and he can next be seen alongside Woody Harrelson in the soldier drama The Messenger.
On the other hand, Kitsch (better known as bad boy hottie Tim Riggins), who says his onscreen role model is Sean Penn in Dead Man Walking, can next be seen as Cajun mutant in X-Men Origins: Wolverine, with Hugh Jackman and Ryan Reynolds.
The season 3 premiere of NBC’s best drama Friday Night Lights finally returns, after debuting on DirectTV in the fall.
“Trust me, it only gets better, deeper, and richer,” Entertainment Weekly‘s TV critic Ken Tucker says of the new season.
But he also has a prediction about Dillon Panthers hunk Taylor Kitsch, who plays brooding Tim who has eyes for good-girl Lyla (played by the beautiful Minka Kelly): “Kitsch continues to charm; Mark my words, this guy is a budding movie star once FNL throws its final touchdown.”
With Friday Night Lights returning for a new season on October 1st, the ladies of the show, Minka Kelly (Lyla), Adrianne Palicki (Tyra) and Aimee Teegarden (Julie), are all featured in a short spread for September’s GQ magazine.
In the shoot, the women don’t only dish on their love of football (or lack thereof), but on one of Blindie’s favorite hunks, Taylor Kitsch.
Of Kitsch, who the men’s style magazine says “is a lucky man” because he’s made out with the trio of beauties, Kelly points out, “The guys like to tease Taylor because people seem to think he’s a heartthrob. But they know better. They know how bad he smells.”
Palicki adds, “And how much makeup he has to go through in the morning to get that pretty!”
Ranked at No. 71, EW calls the ratings-challenged series, which will be back for a third season in 2009, a “terrific drama about family, community, the transition from adolescence to adulthood, and (oh, yeah) football.”
Plus, the eye candy on the show from greasy-haired bad boy Taylor Kitsch to yummy delight Gaius Charles makes the show easy on the eyes!
Speaking of Gaius, he will star in the play Broke-ology, directed by Thomas Kail (who directed the Tony-winning Broadway musical In the Heights) at this summer’s Williamstown Theatre Festival from July 9 to July 20.
Catch up on full episodes of Friday Night Lights at NBC.com.
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