Connie Britton Shares Why She Almost Walked Away from 'Friday Night Lights'
Can you imagine Friday Night Lights without Connie Britton?!
The 58-year-old actress starred as Tami Taylor, the wife of Kyle Chandler‘s Coach Eric Taylor, in the beloved series that ran for five seasons from 2006 to 2011.
In a new interview, Connie admitted she almost walked away from the role after her small role in the 2004 Friday Night Lights movie.
Keep reading to find out more…“In the film there was very little for me to do, even less so by the time it came out,” Connie told Parade. “Whatever I had done was mostly on the cutting room floor. When the TV show came around I said, ‘No thank you.’”
After appearing in the movie, Connie said that she wanted more than just “playing the fly-on-the-wall wife character in a football show.”
Ultimately, writer and creator Peter Berg was “very persuasive” in getting Connie to sign on for the show and gave her character a bigger role.
“’Women are important in these communities and we didn’t get a chance to show that in the film and this is our opportunity to show it in the TV show,’” Connie recalled Peter telling her.
She then went on to sing her praises for Kyle, saying he was like “lightning in a bottle.”
“I could have never imagined that I would find this acting partner who had the same aspirations for the kind of couple that we wanted to portray and was willing to commit to that so deeply,” Connie raved.
When asked about the Friday Night Lights reboot that’s in the works, Connie said she isn’t interested in returning, admitting it’s “barely on” her radar.
However, she did say she hopes the cast will find a “sense of discovery there in terms of what they’re committing to and trying to accomplish.”
Another former Friday Night Lights actor addressed the possibility of returning for the reboot.