But whatever happened to the actor behind fan-favorite Riggins?
“I was doing character stuff,” Kitsch toldThe New York Timeswhen asked.
According to hisElleprofile, he was raised in a trailer park and self-describes as “white trash.
Growing up, I really was.
Proud of it.”
He got injured playing hockey
Before getting into acting, Taylor Kitsch’s biggest passion was hockey.
According to Kitsch, his mother then told him his options were wearing it or not playing.
“I played,” he wrote in the caption.
“Was only player in league with these skates.
And the second I touched the ice I never once thought of these skates again.”
“When the knee went, I was pretty traumatized for a while,” he toldThe Daily Beast.
“My hockey career ended very abruptly.”
“I wasn’t working.
I lived in an apartment in Spanish Harlem with no electricity, and then I lost that.”
But they kicked him out for being unable to pay rent, so Kitsch started sleeping in subway cars.
But Kitsch, despite scoring a manager during this time, was still living out of his car.
“[It] should have been nominated,” he joked in his interview with The Daily Beast.
“I don’t know why it wasn’t!”
Kitsch almost didn’t get the role of Tim Riggins, however.
The rest is history.
So when my relationship with Taylor became toxic, I had no one to turn to."
Unfortunately for Kitsch, all of those films underperformed at the box office.
“I have no problem doing indies for the rest of my life.”
If you look at his career since then, you’re free to tell Kitsch meant it.
“It’s just not for me,” he said of Los Angeles then (viaThe National).
“It’s so unfulfilling to be a part of that Hollywood thing.”
“There weren’t many like-minded people for me,” he told Esquire.
“I live quite simply,” he said of his new home.
“I don’t even know how to put it in words.”
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“I’m married to my work.
I’m in no hurry,” he told Maclean’s in 2012.
I expect you to have the same feelings you have now in eight weeks.'"
“The only thing that eliminates self-doubt for me is prep,” he told The New York Times.
But it’s good how real it is" (via The New York Times).
She got to cameo in the show, and even helped choreograph a detox scene.
“Bringing her was incredibly cathartic and obviously full circle,” Kitsch told the Times.
“I was the emotional mess, and she was just killing it.”
“It’s my choice,” he said, “But it better be worth sacrificing for.”
After taking a break to take care of his sister, he finally slowed down.
His career may not be flashy, but it suits him just fine.
