Taylor Kitsch grew up in a trailer park: White trash. Growing up, I really was.
I’ve decided to hang on to HBO for a while longer just to see if Season 2 of True Detective is worth it. I’m already having mixed feelings about my decision. Vince Vaughn makes me queasy and I really don’t feel much of anything for Taylor Kitsch these days. I used to think he was cute, but he flamed out so hard a few years ago and… I don’t know. I just stopped feeling it. But Kitsch is one of the leads of TD Season 2, and he has a new profile with Elle Magazine to promote it. Elle sent a Friday Night Lights superfan/journalist to interview Taylor and the result was… not the best piece. I basically just learned that the superfan really thinks Taylor Kitsch is hot. Here are some highlights:
Growing up in British Columbia in a trailer park: “White trash. Growing up, I really was. Proud of it.”
His early years as a model in NYC: “It’s not like I was this mainstream f–kin’ runway model. I wasn’t working. I lived in an apartment in Spanish Harlem with no electricity, and then I lost that, so I’d just catch the blue train. It skips a lot of stops at night, and then it stays up at 181st Street, I think. So I’d sleep there. And the security guy would come on and be like, ‘Get out.’ And I’d get out.”
His thoughts on John Carter bombing at the box office: “John Carter was a really great experience,” he tells me—which, of course, is another way of saying, “No regrets,” Riggins’s code and mantra, and, incidentally, Kitsch’s sign-off on personal e-mails.
Filming True Detective: “I didn’t know True was going to be near as emotional. This season—f–k. I could feel Paul seeping into me. I’d be doing something or acting a certain way and think, Oh, this isn’t me.”
He’s currently single: “You sacrifice so f–kin’ much [as an actor]. How do you build a relationship with a gal and then tell her, ‘Hey, I gotta do press all over the world. I expect you to have the same feelings you have now in eight weeks.’ And that’s not me playing the violin. It’s my choice. But it better be worth sacrificing for.”
Is the problem the way the piece was written – sycophantic and fan-girly – or is the problem that Taylor really isn’t that interesting in real life? I think his aim is to be sort of silent and gritty and all about the work, which might make for a good actor (does it though?) but makes for a terrible interview.
By the way, I spent a moment with VF’s profile of Nic Pizzolatto (the creator/writer behind TD) and that guy sounds like a total douche. You can read that piece here.
Photos courtesy of Eric Ray Davidson for ELLE and WENN.
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