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Tim friday night lights12/3/2023 It didn’t help that Kitsch was 25 when the show premiered, and-unlike Zach Gilford, who started playing Matt Saracen when he was 24, but got away with it because he was scrawny-looked every day of it. The FNL writers originally had him as a peer of senior quarterback Jason Street in Season 1, then retconned his age so he could stick around Dillon High School another two years. It was never exactly clear how old Riggins was. Not only was Riggins smokin’ hot, striking that delicate balance between being pretty and smelling like boot leather and testosterone, but he was … temporally ambiguous. Which is why women, from rally girls to cheerleaders to single moms from Lubbock to Waco to El Paso, were so enamored with him. It didn’t hurt that Kitsch looked like he’d been peeled off the cover of a bodice-ripper: Riggins was like a cross between a bison and an alt-country cover of Journey’s “Open Arms.” And what a complex, meaty role-Riggins was impulsive but deeply loyal, introverted but charismatic, prickly but himself deeply sensitive. (Both movies that he starred in, John Carter and Battleship, the latter directed by FNL creator Peter Berg, bombed.)Ī decade after FNL premiered, and even as Kitsch returns to the Texas plains as David Koresh in Waco, Riggins remains Kitsch’s defining role. ![]() ![]() ![]() Riggins was such a hit that in 2012 alone, Hollywood spent almost half a billion dollars trying to make the Canadian actor who played him, Taylor Kitsch, into a movie star. Tim Riggins, more than any other character, became the show’s metonym, because his combination of sad intensity and cheesy beefcake-itude struck the perfect middlebrow television chord-yes, this show is faintly ridiculous, but that doesn’t mean I’m not crying myself into severe dehydration. Let’s be real: This was a show about a brooding, horny, troubled, frequently drunk high school football player and his struggles to keep his Conan the Barbarian hair out of his piercing blue eyes in the swirling West Texas wind. Because Taylor Kitsch has a new show premiering Wednesday night-Waco, a six-part miniseries about David Koresh’s 1993 standoff with the FBI-and because in our (full) hearts, Taylor Kitsch will always be Tim Riggins, we hereby declare January 24 to be Tim Riggins Day.įriday Night Lights owes its cult following mostly to its big-heartedness, and the message of love and perseverance it espoused.
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