Feb 22,2010
Happy Birthday to Zach Roerig/Cash!
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Happy 25th birthday to Zach Roerig! Zach played Cash in season 3 of Friday Night Lights and can currently be seen playing Matt on The Vampire Diaries.
Feb 21,2010
Michael B. Jordan/Vince in Pleasure P Music Video
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This is the official music video for Pleasure P’s Did You Wrong so it’s not embeddable. Click the link below to check it out on YouTube.
Look for Michael B. at the 1:18 mark.
Feb 20,2010
InsideTV on FNL’s Young, Gifted and African-American Actors
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Michael B. Jordan and Jurnee Smollett
Who They Play: ‘Friday Night Lights’ season 4 additions Vince, a juvenile offender forced to join the football team, and Jess, the responsible daughter of a former football hero, respectively.
Why You Should Know Them: Before joining the ‘FNL’ cast, Jordan, 23, appeared on nearly a dozen TV shows, most memorably as the conflicted Wallace on ‘The Wire’ and the troubled Reggie on daytime’s ‘All My Children.’ Smollett, also 23, is anaward-winning actress (’Eve’s Bayou,’ ‘The Great Debaters,’ ‘Cosby’) who wowed audiences with her touching guest spot on the season 4 finale of ‘Grey’s Anatomy’ as Derek and Meredith’s first successful brain-tumor patient.
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SOURCE: InsideTV.AOL.com
Feb 20,2010
Scott Porter Tells NY Post He Might Be Back on FNL
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There are some actors you feel drawn to the first second you lay eyes on them. It happened for me with Sandra Bullock in 1994, Ryan Reynolds in 1998, Kristen Bell in 2004 and Scott Porter in 2006 when he played paralyzed quarterback Jason Street on “Friday Night Lights.” After learning that he was not only able-bodied, but also new to acting, I was even more impressed.
PW: You mentioned living in Texas, which was where you filmed “Friday Night Lights.” Now, I know Street’s story wrapped up nicely, but with the final season coming up, have there been talks about seeing him again?
Scott: There have been whispers. Fans want everybody to come back and everybody involved wants to bring us back too. It’s one of the nice things about knowing when the end is coming because we were able to say some beautiful goodbyes to the characters — hopefully we’ll see some of them come back.PW: How would you like to see Jason return?
Scott: Not in a “Six Feet Under” sense where they show you where everyone is living now. “Friday Night Lights” is about the town, so it needs to be organic. I think Street has a great opportunity to come back given his job. Plus, his best friend in the world could possibly be in trouble — and after everything Riggins has done for Street, and vice versa, they have a bond that just doesn’t go away.PW: Not going to lie, I cried when Riggins left Street in New York.
Scott: The great thing about “Friday Night Lights,” unlike so many other shows and movies, is that it doesn’t take the obvious beats to pull your heartstrings or manipulate you. “FNL” was a great, earned cry. They really tried to capture the essence of friendship and human connections and that’s what has been great about them not following the characters after they leave. There are comings and goings, so you don’t think, “he’s leaving Dillion, but we’ll still see him in the next episode.” There’s weight to their actions.
To read the rest of this interview click the source below.
SOURCE: NYPost.com
Feb 19,2010
Katims Talks to Variety About High School on TV
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One minute “Glee” is TV’s pretty young thing, the next it’s worried about the scary aging process.
From the moment it became clear the Fox musical comedy would survive its first season, another dilemma emerged. Set in high school, “Glee” now faces a ticking clock that some in its genre have found energizing, others confounding.
Someday — perhaps someday soon — its main characters will graduate, and what then?
Considering the alternative, it’s a good problem to have — one that current series like “Friday Night Lights” and “One Tree Hill” have been happy to share in, and that one-season wonders like “My So-Called Life” and “Freaks and Geeks” would have killed for — but a problem nonetheless. (Imagine if “Seinfeld” suddenly faced Jerry, George, Elaine or Kramer graduating from New York City at the end of season two.)
It almost goes without saying that Rule No. 1 for sustaining a high-school series is to avoid making your lead character a senior. But some shows take it a step further and avoid identifying their characters’ grades at all.
Despite unmatched interest in details and continuity among TV auds in general (fueled by fansites on the Internet), “Glee” has managed to mute the academic status of lead character Rachel Berry (Lea Michele) and the supporting cast.
“Lights” similarly skirted the issue in its opening huddles.
“In the first two seasons of the show, honestly, we tried to be as vague as possible about just what grade everyone was in,” says showrunner Jason Katims, admitting, for example, that Tim Riggins (Taylor Kitsch) didn’t seem in the first year like the sophomore he retroactively became. “We wanted to take a little bit of poetic license. Obviously it was a cast we loved, and we wanted to be able to keep them around.”
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SOURCE: Variety.com
Feb 19,2010
Friday Night Lights Fan Podcast #20
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Kaitlin and Amy welcome Matt Lauria who plays Luke Cafferty for an exclusive interview.
Kaitlin and Amy also begin a 3 part review of Season 4.
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Feb 18,2010
IESB Interviews Scott Porter/Street
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Tommy (Scott Porter) is a sexy, young Wall Street hot-shot, living in the high risk, high reward world. When he meets ambitious, young Manhattanite and urban conservationist Beth (Alexis Bledel
), she falls hard for him and thinks he’s a good guy to share her life with. But just as everything seems to be falling into place, complications arise in the form of Tommy’s sensitive and handsome co-worker Daniel (Bryan Greenberg), and Beth starts to realize that maybe Tommy isn’t the good guy she thought he was.
At the press day for The Good Guy, actor Scott Porter talked about creating this multi-layered character, playing a terrorist on the SyFy drama Caprica, and the difference between working on smaller, low-budget films like this one and major studios flicks, like he did on Speed Racer
Q: How did you create this character, so that he wasn’t someone that audiences would just dismiss?
Scott: The issue with Tommy was figuring out what drives him, and you see that at the end. He has a problem. He’s just an egomaniac and has an issue that he can’t seem to get over. Everybody has got an addiction or a problem and he’s got his, and it’s holding up this persona that he has of himself. And, the problem that arose while playing him was, “How should he be with his relationship with Beth?”
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SOURCE: IESB.net
Feb 17,2010
Black Book Magazine Interviews Scott Porter/Street
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To watch Friday Night Lights is to behold a geyser bursting with acting talent. The series about a Texan town obsessed with its high school football team is a rotating door of previously unknown actors building their cases for lasting careers in Hollywood. After three seasons as the pious Jason Street—the star quarterback for the Dillon Panthers who is paralyzed in pilot episode—Scott Porter showed the kind of restraint and elicited the kind of pathos unfathomable for an actor whose only prior acting experience came in musicals. But since FNL’s writers treat their characters with dignity by sending them off properly when their arc is complete, Porter is now out on his own, fighting for roles in big movies and lending his services to little ones. The Good Guy is a little one, a glossy New York fairytale that sees Porter as a slick and ambitious broker who romances Alexis Bledel, and may or may not be the movie’s titular character. Here the actor talks about his new film, his hopes to one don superhero tights, and why Speed Racer didn’t quite click.
I just finished watching you beat-box on Youtube. You’re really good.
Yeah. I might not have been in the most sober state of mind. I beat-boxed professionally for seven years. That’s where I came from.Wow. I had no idea.
Yeah, I was in a couple of different A capella groups and did everything from winning Star Search to opening for N’Sync on their first national tour.
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SOURCE: BlackBookMag.com
Feb 16,2010
TV Guide’s Matt Roush Tackles FNL Finale
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Question: [FRIDAY NIGHT LIGHTS SPOILER ALERT] I watched the Friday Night Lights season four finale last night and wanted to share a few thoughts. First off, it was another great season for a show that is in my top five of all time, and “The Son” was one of the most powerful hours of TV I’ve seen. I also shed quite a few tears during the finale. Although I’m still so sad to see him go, it was a wonderful goodbye to Matt Saracen (and Zach Gilford—hope to see him back on TV soon!). My dream for the fifth and (presumably) final season is to have all the characters who’ve left (Jason, Smash, Tyra, Lyla, Matt, etc.) return for a reunion of some sort.
My only major disappointment with season four is that J.D. McCoy was just a one-note villain. I became very invested in his character in season three when we were introduced to this nice, innocent kid under a huge amount of pressure. While I can understand how he’d let it go to his head with so many people worshipping him, I really hoped they’d dig deeper into his character. Jeremy Sumpter is such an appealing actor and it was a shame he was so utterly wasted this season. I certainly would have liked to have seen more of him and less of Becky. Nothing against the actress, but she got an awful lot of face time this season for someone who (strangely) wasn’t even a regular. I understand the focus this season was squarely on East Dillon, but J.D. was one character I really wish hadn’t fallen by the wayside. (Of course, I still wish Santiago hadn’t disappeared without a trace after season two!) Still, it was a terrific season overall and I’m very much looking forward to season five. So glad DirecTV saved this show.—Keira
Matt Roush: Matt Saracen had a great final run, as did Tim Riggins (brother Billy wasn’t the only one in tears at the end). I loved this season for showing us a new side to a town we thought we knew well, and making us care deeply about a new set of underdogs. It’s true that in that process, anyone left at Dillon High was given short shrift, with J.D. in particularly ending up looking like a stock villain out of a bad high-school sports movie. (On the other hand, knowing that Mother McCoy had left the husband, effectively leaving J.D. unprotected from his father’s cold manipulations, could explain a lot.) But this was a season that asked us to look at the overprivileged Panthers as the bad guys, which may have been too far and melodramatic a stretch. (Coming from a town in Indiana not unlike Dillon, which also thrived on sports, I find it odd that the schools weren’t at some point consolidated, but that’s another issue.) Kind of agree with you about the Becky character as well, who despite her baby trauma and vulnerable crush on Tim never rang terribly true to me, taking away valuable time from getting to know more intriguing characters like Luke and Vince and Jess (not to mention Landry, Julie and the Taylors). But this amounts to nitpicking in a season that on balance was transformative and ultimately triumphant.
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SOURCE: TVGuideMagazine.com
Feb 16,2010
More Info on Zach Gilford in “The Matadors”
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Fun fact: Matt Lauria will be a guest star on The Forgotten in March…and his co-star Michelle Borth will now be working with Zach Gilford!
Tis the season for actors in bubble shows to start making contingency plans.
Case in point, Michelle Borth has landed the female lead in ABC’s drama pilot “The Matadors,” just in case her current ABC drama series, “The Forgotten,” isn’t remembered by network programmers.
“Matadors,” a Sony TV production, is being described as a Romeo-and-Juliet series set against a legal backdrop.
According to The Hollywood Reporter, Borth (”Tell Me You Love Me”) will play Juliana (subtle, we know), who works with her father in the state’s attorney’s office. She begins an affair with Alex (Zach Gilford), whose father runs an influential private law firm.
Obviously “Matadors” will be in second position behind “The Forgotten” for Borth, though “The Forgotten” isn’t considered to be a likely renewal.
Also joining the “Matadors” pilot is Jonathan Scarfe (”Raising the Bar”), who will play the brother of Gilford’s character.
SOURCE: HitFix.com
