Ephemerality

#this remains one of my favorite matt saracen moments, and i have plenty

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Peter Berg (creator, executive producer) : I couldn’t find a coach. The only actor I liked was Dwight Yoakam. He seemed interesting — kind of a flawed, messed-up Southern boy who wanted to act. I met with him a couple times, but then he started making demands. He would need eight weeks off to tour. He’d only be able to give us eight days of filming. And he wanted a ton of money. He made it impossible for us to say yes.

Linda Lowy (casting director) : Pete and I talked a lot about who was going to play Coach Taylor. He had ideas for people who were Billy Bob Thornton-like. Kyle Chandler couldn’t be less like Billy Bob Thornton.

Berg: I said, “Kyle Chandler?” I only knew him from [late-’90s CBS drama] Early Edition. I was not a fan of that show, and I was not a fan of Kyle Chandler.

Aubrey (executive producer) : I think Pete was concerned that Kyle was too pretty. But a couple weeks later, Pete met him for lunch.

Berg: He rode up on a motorcycle. He’d been drinking for two days with his buddies. He had a beard and bags under his eyes. He was clearly hung-over as shit. I was really surprised, because I remembered him as this fresh-faced, boyish, charming young man. And here he was looking like one of the Baldwin brothers after a hard weekend.

Kyle Chandler (Coach Eric Taylor): Pete said, “Kyle, what the hell’s wrong with you?” I said, “I apologize. I was out with my friends.” We had been consuming a considerable amount of alcohol, smoking cigars, and playing poker. I’d been up all night.

Berg: He looked like a mess, and I just said, “You look like a Texas high school football coach!”

Chandler: He said, “Whatever you did last night, I want you to do that every night. I want you to look exactly the same you do right now when you do the show.” A big Cheshire Cat grin came across my face, because I envisioned telling my wife that that was part of the job.

(An Oral History of Friday Night Lights: on the casting of Coach Taylor)

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“I’ve often wondered if we had continued, where they’d be. We [The Taylors] probably wouldn’t have moved out of Texas. I think that’s the beauty of the show; we could have watched their lives indefinitely. I would have loved to have seen where they were going. After five seasons, it just feels incredible to have the show recognized. It was long deserved.” — Connie Britton

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