Real footage from Pflugerville High School's football games was mixed with the taped footage to create the game action. THE UNIFORMS AND SOME FOOTBALL FOOTAGE WERE TAKEN FROM THE PFLUGERVILLE PANTHERS. Producers rented homes around Austin for filming, and used the nearby Pflugerville High School's football field for many of the big game scenes. Before that was Ned Blessing, a short-lived Western that ran on CBS in 1993 and was shot on Willie Nelson’s ranch. THE SHOW WAS FILMED IN AUSTIN.įriday Night Lights was the first series to shoot in Texas's capital city since The Real World paid a visit the year before in 2005. Minka Kelly was 26, Taylor Kitsch was 25, Zach Gilford was 24, and Adrianne Palicki (Tyra Collette) was 23. When the series debuted on October 3, 2006, Jesse Plemons (Landry Clarke) was 18 years old and Aimee Teegarden (Julie Taylor) was 17. MOST OF THE DILLON HIGH STUDENTS WERE NOT TEENAGERS. When he was called in to test, Berg interviewed him sports reporter-style. He finished one tallboy, then opened a second one before introducing himself in his video and doing the "Texas forever" scene. TAYLOR KITSCH DRANK TWO BEERS IN HIS AUDITION TAPE FOR TIM RIGGINS. The future Lyla Garrity was making ends meet as a scrub nurse, preparing women for their lip and breast implants when she wasn’t auditioning. MINKA KELLY WAS WORKING IN A PLASTIC SURGERY CLINIC. Gilford and one other actor were up for Saracen: The other actor was double-booked to audition for a made-for-TV Disney movie, so Berg gave the part to Gilford. ZACH GILFORD WAS WORKING AT A SPORTING GOODS STORE WHEN HE WAS CAST AS MATT SARACEN. For two years, Leland (unsuccessfully) pleaded with the writers to give his character, Buddy Garrity, a girlfriend or wife. Initially, she was reluctant to play the role until Peter Berg convinced her that Tami would have a job and a life of her own in the TV series.īrad Leland played the team booster again. In the movie version she was Sharon Gaines, wife of Coach Gary Gaines (Billy Bob Thornton). TWO ACTORS REPRISED THEIR ROLES FROM THE MOVIE.Ĭonnie Britton played the coach’s wife again. That's exactly what I f***ing want right there, just do that.'" The actor isn’t a big football fan he found inspiration for playing Taylor from reading a biography of New England Patriots head coach Bill Belichick, but still swears, "I couldn't coach my way out of a paper bag." 3. "So I show up on my motorcycle, probably late, and I just remember looking at me and going: ' That. Kyle Chandler met with executive producer Peter Berg (also the co-writer and director of the movie, and Buzz Bissinger’s second cousin) for the role of Coach Eric Taylor supremely hungover, "and I had smoked, like, 20 cigars-it was either my birthday or someone else's birthday, but it was a big bash-and I hadn't shaved or probably showered in a few days," Chandler recalled to The Hollywood Reporter. KYLE CHANDLER CLAIMS HE COULDN’T COACH HIS WAY "OUT OF A PAPER BAG." When they couldn’t purchase them because the movie rights were sold first, the network aired an unofficial adaptation titled Against the Grain in the fall of 1993, which starred Ben Affleck (then 21 years old) as the starting quarterback. The network tried to get the rights to Buzz Bissinger’s book soon after it came out. IT WAS THE SECOND TIME NBC TRIED TO MAKE A FRIDAY NIGHT LIGHTS SERIES. Based on the 1990 book by Buzz Bissinger and the 2004 movie of the same name, Friday Night Lights was, and remains, a beloved, unflinching television drama about the residents of the (fictional) high school football-crazed town of Dillon, Texas.
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