Connie Britton Virtually Mentioned No to Friday Night time Lights TV Present

Connie Britton nearly mentioned “no thanks” to her iconic character from Friday Night time Lights. 

The actress, 58, mirrored on her time starring on the unique drama sequence throughout an interview with Parade for its March cowl story. Now synonymous together with her character Tami Taylor, Britton revealed that she practically walked away from the character after her small function within the 2004 Friday Night time Lights film. 

“Within the movie there was little or no for me to do, even much less so by the point it got here out,” Britton shared. “No matter I had carried out was totally on the chopping room ground. When the TV present got here round I mentioned, ‘No thanks.’ ”

The drama ran for 5 seasons and got here to an finish in 2011. The unique Friday Night time Lights adopted soccer gamers and their coach — starring the likes of Taylor Kitsch, Minka Kelly, Jesse Plemons, Michael B. Jordan, Zach Gilford, Aimee Teegarden, Kyle Chandler and Britton — in a rural city in Texas as they navigated their lives on and off the sector.

The NBC program was impressed by H. G. Bissinger’s 1990 novel of the identical title, which was additionally tailored right into a 2004 movie, starring Billy Bob Thornton, Jay Hernandez, Garrett Hedlund and Tim McGraw and Britton, amongst others.

After starring within the 2004 movie, Britton shared that she wished greater than “enjoying the fly-on-the-wall spouse character in a soccer present.”

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In the end Peter Berg, author and creator of the present, was very persuasive towards the The White Lotus alumna.

As she recalled, Berg instructed her, “ ‘Ladies are necessary in these communities and we didn’t get an opportunity to point out that within the movie and that is our alternative to point out it within the TV present.’ “

Britton acknowledged that it was an enormous threat for her to take, nevertheless it finally paid off. She additionally shared that her work with Chandler, 59, who performed her husband and the beloved Coach Taylor, was “lightning in a bottle.”

“I might have by no means imagined that I’d discover this performing companion who had the identical aspirations for the form of couple that we wished to painting and was prepared to decide to that so deeply,” Britton shared. 

Whereas there was discuss of a Friday Night time Lights reboot, Britton has beforehand shared she received’t be included. She instructed Parade that it’s “barely on her radar.” Nevertheless, she mentioned she hopes the brand new forged will discover a “sense of discovery there by way of what they’re committing to and attempting to perform.”