Taylor Kitsch! Taylor Kitsch! Lustaday
It’s early Friday evening in Johannesburg and actor Taylor Kitsch, 28, is standing outside the Coca Cola Zero Festival talking on his mobile phone.Stadium rock band Oasis is about to go on stage. Kitsch is taking time out from filming The Bang Bang Club with Ryan Phillipe and Malin Akerman. “This movie is so heavy,” he says. It’s the true story of a gang of South African photographers who captured the last days of the apartheid regime. Kitsch has lost 15 kilos to play lensman Kevin Carter, who killed himself, age 33, three months after winning the Pulitzer Prize for photography. (The winning image was of a vulture and an emaciated child in the Sudan).
Kitsch, a former Abercrombie & Fitch model, appeared in cinemas as mutant Cajun card-shark Gambit, in X-Men Origins: Wolverine. Filmed at Fox Studios in Sydney, he says, “I had a lot of fun doing it. I’m so fortunate that all my scenes are with Hugh [Jackman]. I respect him enormously.” Kitsch’s mom came out from Canada to visit him on set. “We walked the Harbor Bridge, went to the Blue Mountains. She had a riot.” But his favorite Sydney moment was, “going to Bondi super early in the morning with Liev [Schreiber] and just waiting for the waves.”
On the phone Kitsch sounds just like Tim Riggins, his breakout role as the football star of the Texas drama Friday Night Lights (the fifth and final season just started on DirecTV). “The beauty of Riggs is that you can take him anywhere. He’s not fit for college, you could throw him in the army, in a car mechanic’s workshop, being unemployed, whatever, it can make sense because this character doesn’t have a sense of purpose in life, anything is possible with this guy.”
Much like Kitsch. The youngest of three boys from Kelowna, a small town in Canada, he moved to New York in 2002 after winning an IMG model contest. He studied acting under Sheila Grey and lived all over Manhattan, even in the subway for a two week stint. “I had a pretty ****ing tough go in New York. It made me realize who I am.” These days Kitsch, a country music fan (he likes George Straits and Garth Brooks) has three motor bikes garaged in Austin and resides in the Lone Star state. “I’m very settled there. Every time I fly into Austin, I feel like it’s my home.”
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Kitsch, a former Abercrombie & Fitch model, appeared in cinemas as mutant Cajun card-shark Gambit, in X-Men Origins: Wolverine. Filmed at Fox Studios in Sydney, he says, “I had a lot of fun doing it. I’m so fortunate that all my scenes are with Hugh [Jackman]. I respect him enormously.” Kitsch’s mom came out from Canada to visit him on set. “We walked the Harbor Bridge, went to the Blue Mountains. She had a riot.” But his favorite Sydney moment was, “going to Bondi super early in the morning with Liev [Schreiber] and just waiting for the waves.”
On the phone Kitsch sounds just like Tim Riggins, his breakout role as the football star of the Texas drama Friday Night Lights (the fifth and final season just started on DirecTV). “The beauty of Riggs is that you can take him anywhere. He’s not fit for college, you could throw him in the army, in a car mechanic’s workshop, being unemployed, whatever, it can make sense because this character doesn’t have a sense of purpose in life, anything is possible with this guy.”
Much like Kitsch. The youngest of three boys from Kelowna, a small town in Canada, he moved to New York in 2002 after winning an IMG model contest. He studied acting under Sheila Grey and lived all over Manhattan, even in the subway for a two week stint. “I had a pretty ****ing tough go in New York. It made me realize who I am.” These days Kitsch, a country music fan (he likes George Straits and Garth Brooks) has three motor bikes garaged in Austin and resides in the Lone Star state. “I’m very settled there. Every time I fly into Austin, I feel like it’s my home.”
Want some Texas Forever Riggins style? Check out eBay’s The Inside Source.
http://www.lustaday.com/2010/11/02/taylor-kitsch-taylor-kitsch/