Taylor Kitsch

April 27, 2009 by Maura Reilly
Filed under Actors 2Watch4

I have a deep dark and potentially embarrassing secret: I can’t stop watching The Covenant (2006). Every once in a while it goes into heavy rotation on cable. If I happen upon it while channel surfing, I become transfixed and unable to turn away from all the cute boys. Taylor Kitsch is a major part of the problem. The 6 ft. tall Canadian lad is far too distracting when he’s shirtless and don’t even get me started about guys on motorcycles. Well Taylor has been gifted with the opportunity to create a beloved comic book character for the big screen and he’s doing it opposite the Mac Daddy of X-Men, Hugh Jackman. None of us are going to survive this.

Taylor is probably recognized from his work on the critically acclaimed TV series “Friday Night Lights” where he plays Tim Riggins, a dark and brooding football player in a small Texas town. Apparently he was in Snakes on a Plane but I didn’t see that. If you have, God bless. Leave a comment on how Taylor looked since acting wasn’t really required in that one. It’s going to be his work as Gambit in X-Men Origins: Wolverine that will thrust this guy into the limelight. Gambit is a favorite character among fans of the X-men universe. In fact at the 2008 International Comic-Con, star Jackman brought some rough footage and people went nuts at their first glimpse of the playing card toting mutant. So a lot of pressure is going to be on our guy here. Something tells me such responsibility will weigh just fine on those shoulders.

As of press time Taylor is filming The Bang Bang Club, a movie about a group of photojournalists chronicling the final days of Apartheid in South Africa. That promises to be a powerful and haunting film. It looks like this young actor is making an impression on more important people than me. He’ll be around tempting us with rippling muscles and misunderstood bad boy characters for a long while. Oh look, The Covenant is starting in a little while….

Official Site: Taylor Kitsch dot Com

Fansites:
Taylor Kitsch dot Net
Taylor Kitsch Online

Official Film/TV Series Sites:
X-Men Origins: Wolverine
Friday Night Lights