Taylor Kitsch Shares Honest Advice for the “Friday Night Lights” Reboot Cast: ‘It’s Not Gonna Last Forever’ (Exclusive)

With clear eyes and a afloat heart, Friday Night Lights alum Taylor Kitsch is offering immoderate pro tips for nan upcoming reboot’s cast.

The actor, 44, reveals his honorable proposal during a PEOPLE successful 10 question and reply astir his caller Prime Video series, The Terminal List: Dark Wolf. 

“Have fun, don’t interest astir if it’s going to beryllium large aliases not, conscionable return absolute ownership of immoderate characteristic you’re given,” Kitsch, who won’t beryllium reprising his domiciled arsenic Tim Riggins successful Peacock’s reboot, says.

He adds, “Take risks, and bask it because it’s not gonna past forever.”

And erstwhile asked whether Texas is forever, Kitsch proclaims, “Yes, Texas forever.”

The original Friday Night Lights bid — inspired by nan 2004 film of nan aforesaid sanction — ran from 2006 to 2011. It starred Kitsch, Kyle Chandler, Connie Britton, Jesse Plemons, Zach Gilford, Scott Porter and more.

Although nan FNL reboot will proceed to show stories astir a small-town Texas community’s emotion of shot and nan play unfolding extracurricular of nan shot field, Peacock’s bid will characteristic a wholly caller cast.

Kitsch told PEOPLE successful January that he was only willing successful returning if it was a mini role. “If you wanted to put maine arsenic a visiting coach pinch 2 lines, I astir apt would do that, conscionable for fun. I deliberation that would beryllium nan astir I would do, because I emotion nan measurement we near it,” he said astatine nan time.

However, successful an Aug. 4 communicative successful The Wrap, he provided an update, saying, “I was asked to do it. Umm, yeah, I’m not going back. No.”

Peacock announced successful December 2024 that nan bid will return spot “in nan aftermath of a devastating hurricane, erstwhile a ragtag precocious schoolhouse shot squad and their damaged interim coach make an improbable bid for a Texas High School State Championship. Through their unexpected rise, nan shot squad becomes a beacon of ray for their town.”

The still-in-development reboot doesn’t person an expected merchandise date.

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The Terminal List: Dark Wolf — which follows Kitsch’s characteristic Ben Edwards’ “journey from nan Navy SEALs to nan clandestine broadside of CIA Special Operations” — premieres connected Prime Video connected Aug. 27.