Taylor Kitsch Was Asked to Return for ‘Friday Night Lights’ Reboot But Only Wants to Do One Episode

Taylor Kitsch is open to returning to Friday Night Lights, but he wouldn’t want to stay very long.

With a reboot of the mid-2000s football drama series in the works at Universal Television, Kitsch addressed his potential involvement with the new show during a Tuesday appearance on SiriusXM’s The Spotlight with Jessica Shaw. When discussing his forthcoming Netflix series American Primeval, which he worked on alongside Friday Night Lights series creator Peter Berg, Kitsch shared that he’d been approached about the reboot but that he’d only return for one episode.

“I’ve been asked and we’ll leave it at that,” Kitsch said of participating in the reboot, adding that he would “never say never” to returning but that he’d “do something maybe for an episode.”

“I’m always flattered … but I don’t want to go and do the whole thing,” he added. “I’d go and have fun, but I don’t want to lead a FNL reboot.”

Despite his hesitation to return to the series in a full-time capacity, Kitsch affirmed that he’d be open to reprising his original role of Tim Riggins — or debuting a new character. “I would do both,” he said, adding that it might be difficult for fans to attach him to a new persona in the Friday Night Lights universe.

“I could create something that could be hopefully pretty fun, but I think if you saw me as someone else, they’d say, ‘That’s Riggins,’” he said. “I would go play an opposing team’s coach or something and be on screen for like eight seconds. I would do that.”

The logline for the new Peacock series reads, “Following a devastating hurricane, a ragtag high school football team and their damaged, interim coach make an unlikely bid for a Texas high school state championship, becoming a beacon of light for their town.”

Kitsch starred in the original series alongside Kyle Chandler, Connie Britton, Jesse Plemons, Zach Gilford, Minka Kelly, Gaius Charles, Scott Porter, Aimee Teegarden, Adrianne Palicki and Michael B. Jordan, among others.

The new series will see many of its original creatives return, including creator and pilot director Berg, showrunner Jason Katims and executive producer Brian Grazer of Imagine Entertainment. They will all executive produce the series alongside Imagine’s Kristen Zolner, while Katims will serve as showrunner.