The Terminal List: Dark Wolf’s Taylor Kitsch Has a “F**king Great” Relationship with Chris Pratt and Is “Never Playing Tim Riggins Again”

Taylor Kitsch doesn’t truly attraction if he’s considered a “TV actor” histrion oregon a “movie actor.” From Friday Night Lights to X-Men, he’s nary alien to magnetic, dynamic characters whose ambiguous motivations drawback clasp of audiences and don’t fto spell for an hr oregon twenty. And now, with his caller Prime Video bid The Terminal List: Dark Wolf, Kitsch has the accidental to revisit a communicative helium says is “balls to the wall” but with a “great heartbeat.”

“I deliberation that stigma's gone of like, ‘are you a TV histrion oregon a fucking movie actor?’” Kitsch says. “That’s silly to me. Streaming has benignant of taken implicit successful a batch of ways. The crippled is conscionable different. You look astatine Painkiller, evidently The Terminal List. You look astatine American Primeval. (With TV) you decidedly get a longer runway to observe and fundamentally make a small more. Obviously you're giving maine six hours positive alternatively of 90 minutes. So I bash emotion that portion of it. But I don't attack a quality differently.”

Taylor Kitsch says moving with Chris Pratt connected The Terminal List was "a batch of fun."

For Kitsch, The Terminal List: Dark Wolf was a accidental to collaborate erstwhile again with Chris Pratt, prima of the archetypal Terminal List bid and with whom helium shares an EP recognition connected Dark Wolf.

“Pratt doesn’t person an ego,” Kitsch says. “He's conscionable specified a cheerleader for you and helium wants you to bash great, and vice versa. We're aged capable and I deliberation situated wherever we are successful our careers that you're genuinely blessed for the different guy. My narration with CP has been fucking great, man. We had chemistry since time 1.”

As you tin spot successful the exclusive featurette above, Kitsch and Pratt worked unneurotic to assistance fig retired storylines for Kitsch’s quality Ben Edwards, a supporting subordinate successful the archetypal Terminal List bid whose root communicative of leaving the Navy SEALs and bcoming a CIA operative wasn’t told successful Jack Carr’s novels.

“Creatively we'll speech it out,” Kitsch says of Pratt. "And I deliberation due to the fact that this is not successful the Carr books, we had a wider array of choices wherever we tin instrumentality Ben. So that was a batch of amusive arsenic well. But and I deliberation the quality of (Pratt’s character) Reece is that we're truthful fucking different, but we privation the aforesaid things. And I deliberation that's wherefore a batch of radical had a batch of amusive watching (the archetypal series. It was similar Ben and Reece are conscionable wholly antithetic beings.”

Taylor Kitsch has proposal for the formed of the Friday Night Lights Reboot

For Kitsch, revisiting Ben Edwards successful The Terminal List: Dark Wolf was a no-brainer, but that doesn’t mean he’s crippled to reprise his celebrated Friday Night Lights character.

“I'm ne'er playing Riggins again, let's beryllium clear,” Kitsch says. “But I deliberation you're ever wanting to marque an impression. I’m flattered (that the quality inactive resonates with people). If I was a songwriter and had an astonishing opus that you thought was large and radical responded to it, that's the champion happening you tin bash arsenic a storyteller. Leave an content oregon evoke thing from idiosyncratic done a performance.”

And though helium astir apt won’t beryllium returning for the announced FNL reboot, Kitsch has immoderate proposal for whomever is inevitably formed successful the caller series’ “Riggins” role.

“Whoever that adjacent Riggins is,” helium says, “take a plaything and hopefully you tin permission an content (like) a clump of america did connected that show.”

The Terminal List: Dark Wolf streams connected Prime Video August 27, 2025