Taylor Kitsch doesn\u2019t really care if he\u2019s considered a \u201cTV actor\u201d actor or a \u201cmovie actor.\u201d From Friday Night Lights to X-Men, he\u2019s no stranger to magnetic, dynamic characters whose ambiguous motivations grab hold of audiences and don\u2019t let go for an hour or twenty. And now, with his new Prime Video series The Terminal List: Dark Wolf, Kitsch has the opportunity to revisit a story he says is \u201cballs to the wall\u201d but with a \u201cgreat heartbeat.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cI think that stigma’s gone of like, \u2018are you a TV actor or a fucking movie actor?\u2019\u201d Kitsch says. \u201cThat\u2019s silly to me. Streaming has kind of taken over in a lot of ways. The game is just different. You look at Painkiller, obviously The Terminal List. You look at American Primeval. (With TV) you definitely get a longer runway to discover and basically develop a little more. Obviously you’re giving me six hours plus instead of 90 minutes. So I do love that part of it. But I don’t approach a character differently.\u201d<\/p>\n
Taylor Kitsch says working with Chris Pratt on The Terminal List was “a lot of fun.”<\/p>\n
For Kitsch, The Terminal List: Dark Wolf was a chance to collaborate once again with Chris Pratt, star of the original Terminal List series and with whom he shares an EP credit on Dark Wolf. <\/p>\n
\u201cPratt doesn\u2019t have an ego,\u201d Kitsch says. \u201cHe’s just such a cheerleader for you and he wants you to do great, and vice versa. We’re old enough and I think situated where we are in our careers that you’re genuinely happy for the other guy. My relationship with CP has been fucking great, man. We had chemistry since day 1.\u201d<\/p>\n
As you can see in the exclusive featurette above, Kitsch and Pratt worked together to help figure out storylines for Kitsch\u2019s character Ben Edwards, a supporting player in the original Terminal List series whose origin story of leaving the Navy SEALs and bcoming a CIA operative wasn\u2019t told in Jack Carr\u2019s novels. <\/p>\n
\u201cCreatively we’ll talk it out,\u201d Kitsch says of Pratt. “And I think because this is not in the Carr books, we had a wider array of choices where we can take Ben. So that was a lot of fun as well. But and I think the beauty of (Pratt\u2019s character) Reece is that we’re so fucking different, but we want the same things. And I think that’s why a lot of people had a lot of fun watching (the original series. It was like Ben and Reece are just totally different beings.\u201d<\/p>\n
Taylor Kitsch has advice for the cast of the Friday Night Lights Reboot<\/p>\n
For Kitsch, revisiting Ben Edwards in The Terminal List: Dark Wolf was a no-brainer, but that doesn\u2019t mean he\u2019s game to reprise his famous Friday Night Lights character.<\/p>\n
\u201cI’m never playing Riggins again, let’s be clear,\u201d Kitsch says. \u201cBut I think you’re always wanting to make an impression. I\u2019m flattered (that the character still resonates with people). If I was a songwriter and had an amazing song that you thought was great and people responded to it, that’s the best thing you can do as a storyteller. Leave an impression or evoke something from someone through a performance.\u201d<\/p>\n
And although he most likely won\u2019t be returning for the announced FNL reboot, Kitsch has some advice for whomever is inevitably cast in the new series\u2019 \u201cRiggins\u201d role.<\/p>\n
\u201cWhoever that next Riggins is,\u201d he says, \u201ctake a swing and hopefully you can leave an impression (like) a bunch of us did on that show.\u201d<\/p>\n
The Terminal List: Dark Wolf streams on Prime Video August 27, 2025<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Taylor Kitsch doesn\u2019t really care if he\u2019s considered a \u201cTV actor\u201d actor or a \u201cmovie actor.\u201d From Friday…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":73554,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[64,63,134,427],"class_list":{"0":"post-73553","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tv","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-entertainment","11":"tag-tv"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73553","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=73553"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73553\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/73554"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=73553"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=73553"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=73553"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}