Taylor Kitsch is practically begging for work

He was hot and no less talented than other pretty boys in Hollywood. Shame John Carter flopped despite being a testament to his beauty.

He'll need to fork out for that hair implant patch up. Maybe he could score a fashion deal. I've always wondered how much the big stars get for those. I know Charlese got a flat $1 million simply for allowing her face to be used in the advertising for a banal apartment tower.

I’ve got an offer for him. $20, but he has to bring his own thong.

It's almost poetic that he starred in Snakes on a Plane with Kitsch as a surname.

Also, why the hell not go into voice over work. Hollywood has been churning out comic book cartoonist crap for so long, atleast he doesn't take himself so seriously to be 'above' certain work.

His sex scene in Snakes on a Plane was jack off material in my teen years. I usually wasn't into long-haired guys but he and Brendan Fraser in George of the Jungle really turned me on.

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They never age well, do they?

His Texas accent was excellent. He was hot then and he's still hot!

Who are “they”, R7?

R9 The trans.

[quote]Who are “they”, [R7]?

Those tortured, smoldering pretty boys with their puffy lips and tight bodies in their 20s that turn to something else entirely in their 40s. Ryan Phillipe is the only one who seems to be barely holding on.

It's called aging, darling. I'm sure it's happened to you or it's about to happen and you'll regret your venom.

Andrew Keegan and Josh Hartnett are fine. Ryan and Taylor are too. They aren't dead or drugged out. We need to be grateful these pretty boys whored themselves when young and immortalized themselves.

Andrew Keegan was never hot to me.

Ryan is impressive considering he's a pale skinned blond with blue eyes. He's extremely vain and shallow and has nothing going for besides being hot. So he must maintain that.

I don't know her

Ryan had work done

R17 Yep. He'll probably end up like Tom Cruise. Try to get subtle work done but by 60, it will become obvious and his body will turn flabby eventually.

I thought he was in his late thirties. He's 41. He hasn't had any work done and I think he still looks incredibly handsome.

Ryan Phillippe aged just fine, R7.

We can make product. PM me dude.

He aged better than Brendan Fraser who was sex on legs in the 90s

Fraser is much older than him

Fraser aged harder and way faster. By the mid-2000s he looked rough and he was only in his mid-30s. Kitsch is in his 40s and still looks pretty young, he has better genes.

Better genetics.

Brendan Fraser had to deal with debilitating injuries from his action film roles which messed up his overall health.

And what about the booze and the bloat R 26?

R1 "John Carter" was more a marketing failure than anything else. If it had been handled correctly, it probably could have spawn a franchise, albeit a weak one. It certainly wasn't Kitsch's fault that it flopped.

Unfortunately, he's in his 40s now and the bloom is basically off his rose.

We who god knows were never beauties and spit venom with the anonymity of a computer can afford to age.

R26 Yes, he burned through himself hard.

R27 I believe he was on steroid therapy for a while., but he probably was also overeating and depressed.

He was hot and credible in John Carter.

Loved John Carter. Saw it in a theater 4 times.

Yeah, Brendan Fraser gets a small pass because he had some serious health issues that left him completely messed up.

"Loved John Carter. Saw it in a theater 4 times."

Musta have been a lonely experience.

His most important appearance was in "The Covenant". They should have tossed the plot and just had the boys fuck in the locker room as much as possible.

R34 you read my Mind!!!

He shouldn’t have chased the movie stardom and stuck to tv shows. He would have had a bigger career.

Do what Jennifer Aniston did. Keep trying to do shows until you get one that sticks and does well and do movies in between seasons etc.

Everyone says the same thing about him. He was incredibly charismatic and charming on the small screen (and that made him a fan favorite), but his charisma and charm doesn’t translate to the big screen for some reason.

Except for Snakes on a Plane which I've never seen, I've never heard of this guy or any of the film or TV work he's done!

He was great in The Normal Heart.

Yeah. A TV Movie.

Hollywood gave him a big opportunity and it blew up in his face. It wasn’t really his fault but that’s the way the cookie crumbles.

Certainly moving out of Hollywood to Texas wasn’t a good career move.

[quote] He was hot and credible in John Carter. Loved John Carter. Saw it in a theater 4 times.

He was hot in that movie, but the CGI was awful (Attack of the Clones arena creatures awful) and was otherwise an awful movie. In addition, Taylor has one of those faces that look so hot at one angle but fade into the screen in others. That may explain R37's comment: "He was incredibly charismatic and charming on the small screen (and that made him a fan favorite), but his charisma and charm doesn’t translate to the big screen for some reason."

Taylor is cellophane. Pretty and shiny cellophane, but still cellophane.

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He was bland and boring with no charisma in Savages but he looked ridiculously sexy.

Him (and Aaron Taylor-Johnson) looked hot in Savages. Terrible movie and Blake Lively was miscast, but they looked hot. All of them.

He was excellent as David Koresh in the miniseries Waco.

He was in the tv version of "The Normal Heart" and made no impression whatsoever, even though the project and everyone else in it was overpraised.

I wouldn't recognize him on the street. He should give Hallmark a call.

I like him in True Detective S2. Lots of ppl didn't like that season but I thought it was pretty good.

I wonder if he still has a nice bum?

(I know, already posted at R45, but still, it's hot!)

Looks flat, but his chest and face were nice.

An actor saying he'd do any role for money? Horrors! Oh wait, that pretty much sums up Michael Caine's career.

To me he will always be tender screw up Tim Riggins on Friday Night Lights.

Must first show nude photos, front and rear!!

He was excellent as David Koresh - surprised he isn’t getting more character work.

R41 R42 Taylor Kitsch was pretty good in the role of John Carter and the film itself was excellent escapist popcorn movie. It failed because the producers royally fucked up the marketing of the film. They didn't know what to promote it as so moviegoers weren't clear what it was about.

I'm not as fussy as those old fat farts up thread, I'd still do him.

He is incredibly sexy

R38 well you missed out on the cinematic masterpiece called Battleship with known thespian Rihanna.

He actually seems like a cool person

He and Travis Fimmel should do a movie as sexy step-brother assassins for hire (who fuck each other, of course).

John Carter flopped because it didn’t appeal to anyone. It had nothing to do with marketing. Even critics tore that one apart.

Critics also tore HIM apart in that movie. And they were right. He was wooden and lacked any presence or charisma.

John Carter had pretty Taylor Kitsch showing a lot of skin. So it seemed they wanted a heartthrob to be the lead and appeal to both boys and girls. But it didn't appeal to straight boys much. Comic franchises like Thor and Captain America suits and bodybuilder physiques appeal to boys. And also marketable with toys.

I don’t know a single gay man that would pay to see John Carter.

R64 Well gay teens exist and they have disposable income to watch stupid movies like that and also teen girls who would see it because he was cute. But it flopped because it didn't appeal to the majority of little kids and straight bros which is what they wanted

Taylor was pretty, John Carter was a flop - next.

Hollywood is weird. Wooden actors who relied on their looks like Tom Cruise, Brad Pitt and Keanu Reeves enjoy tons of success. Yet the millions of others fail. It really is like a lottery.

Taylor relied on his looks too. Difference is they has movie star appeal and he didn’t.

They have*

R68 And they also got on their knees.

I’m sure Taylor did too, which is why Hollywood tried making him a movie star. Not their fault the public never took the bait.

He doesn’t have any other skills besides working out and his looks, so if he can’t get work and becomes desperate he can make an OnlyFans to fall back on if needed.

R71 True. But honestly Hollywood is irrelevant nowadays anyway. He should have focused more on TV series because that's his strength. Jennifer Aniston and Matthew Fox tried to be Hollywood too but failed and went back to TV or Netflix.

Aniston didn’t fail. She starred in a handful of movies that made over $100 million. She went back to TV because that’s where all the best stories and parts for women are now. Especially over 50s.

Most her movies were garbage and she didn't need to work after Friends. None of her films will last the test of time. That was all her ego. The best stories are for good actresses not variations of Rachel Green.

I think some of those pretty ones are more interesting actors than Kitsch and took on and/or landed better projects. So more talent, more luck. The typical Hollywood success crapshoot.

R75 how many actors films last the test of time? No one says “I wonder if this movie will be loved 50 years from now” when going to see a rom-Com. Fact is she had many hit movies. Meaning she didn’t fail.

R77 OK she didn't fail despite her lack of talent and average looks. That's why frauen love her.

Men loved Aniston when she was young

R79 Wanting to bang an female celebrity and paying money to see their shitty movies is very different unless their gfs or wives dragged them to see it. Her movies made money just Jennifer Lopez. But no straight man is seeing them to be bored for 90 minutes because they can just watch porn or look at their fake nudes online

We'll just have to accept that we will never get to make out with and fuck Tim Riggins.

R21 was that in South Yarra, Melbourne?

Has he given all his money to right wing orgs?

He draws the line at Friday Night Lights though.

He's rich and seems content with his career. He was selective too with his roles. I'm not seeing the desperation that OP is grasping at straws for.

R85 what is he so rich from?

R86 Acting consistently for years. Why are you asking such a dumb question? You're trying so hard to make this successful man into a deadbeat loser and it's not working.

R87 lmaoooo and what roles has he done that paid him a lot that would make him very rich?

R88 you know IMDb is free to use? He didn't get just one role and stopped acting years ago. I assume he's comfortably secure and saved and invested his money well given simple appearance and low profile. Of all the trash in Hollywood, it's odd to go after someone so innocuous.

Again, r89, what roles has he done that are high paying?

R90 Look it up yourself. You don't need one high-paying role, if you consistently work and live within your means, you should be fine. I understand you want to tear down an attractive successful white man that you lust after but you're not doing a good job. As usual, Miss Seacow.

People on here think everyone with name recognition is filthy rich. Truth is they all are not.

He’s on The Terminal List. They had 8 episodes.

Before than his last role was in 2020, in the tv show The Defeated. Again, 8 episodes.

He had one acting job in 2019.

One acting job in 2018.

Three acting jobs in small budget films in 2017.

One acting role in a small cartoon film in 2016.

True Detective in 2015 and nothing else.

The Normal Heart was his only acting role in 2014

…. We can keep going…

Again, what roles is he doing that he is picking and choosing and worths millions?

R91 but that isn’t what you said. You didn’t say anything about living within his means. You said he’s filthy rich and able to pick and choose roles because of it. You also said he doesn’t need to work….

Not the same as living within your means.

r85 one thing DL knows is that Hollwyood is smoke and mirrors. Hardly anyone is make as much as people assume they make. Even the big names with $10 million per film contracts are still taking home $4-5 per film after taxes and staff fees. Most actors aren't even making $5 million per film to you do the math. They have to support themseleve and maybe their family with absolutly no insight into future earnings.

r93 layed out a bleak review of his limited opportunites the past few years. At 40 he's struggling to find work and only going to get older with more and more people forgetting about his breakout role on FNL. Even his John Wick movie wouldn't have paid him out big because those blockbusters command the attention of every young hot actor. If Tyler or anyone balks at the salary, the studio has there pick of 10-20 other bankable options. Same deal with Armie Hammer. His biggest blockbuster was The Lone Ranger in 2013. The movie flopped but I gurantee the only person that was paid handsomly was Johnny Depp and maybe Helena Bonham Carter. Today, Armie is (rich people-) broke.

So yes, Taylor is likely desperate for work. Especially when you get to the point to saying to the press that you'd take almost anything. It's sad really but also shows why so many actresses and actors end up on yatch. Not playing, Kitsch is just the type to end up doing the yatch circuit (if desperate enough) alongside people like Chance Crawford before he landed his smallish part in The Boys.

Last point, the Marvel movies pay most of the their leads under a million for their first films. Of course they all knew they would have much more lucrative options because they were alsmost guranteed to be a success after Iron Man worked out beutifually but Tom Holland, Chris Evans, Chis Hemsworth, and maybe Chris Pratt all had laughably small deals on their frist Marvel films. OS if Marvel is paying peanuts for V 1.0 of their box office smash films, then other blockbusters are paying peanuts as well. The actos just hope and pary for it to turn into a movie series.

Yes r96. Chris Evans was paid $500k for the first Captain America. I think Hemsworth was paid even less for Thor because he was less known.

The catch with those Marvel movies is the contracts tie you into numerous films and you get a pay raise with each one. I remember Hemsworth saying another good thing about being in those movies is that it allows them to be more picky with roles outside of Marvel for more money. It doesn’t matter how badly the films flop, either, because you always have Marvel to fall back on.

Same with WB/DC. I remember it making headlines when Gal Gadot’s Wonder Woman salary was released. She was paid like $500k for the first. People automatically started the women make less nonsense but in reality that’s the case for all those superhero movies.

She saw a big raise for the sequel.

R95 that’s why actors try making as much as they can while young. As you get older, unless you have high respect value and massive name recognition still like DeNiro or Pacino or Washington, you are offered shit.

Kitsch was someone Hollywood tried making a movie star after he gained massive popularity on a tv show, and the public never took the bait. He also never gained enough self-awareness to jump back into the TV game early on while still very young and capitalize off of that. Instead he kept trying the movie career that wasn’t happening and he wasn’t getting offered any roles practically.

Now he’s practically begging for work.

He should have humbled himself and tried more tv work.

Also, that’s why so many actors try getting as many credits as possible on films, because as just an actor they have to pay so much to everyone else and only get about 40-50% of that paycheck, but if they’re a producer on that hit movie etc. they get another paycheck plus bonuses.

Tom Holland just got a $20 million bonus for Spider-Man, and Zendaya a $10 million bonus. The bonus usually belongs to just them.

Damn, Zendaya had it best. She could phone in her parts of that last movie, didn't have to wokrout like crazy for a 30 second underwear shot, like TOm, and walks away with $10 million. She's only 25 years old. She worked 1/4 as hard as Tom in that movie but puts away $10 million, crazy numbers from these super hero movies.

The really crazy thing is that Taylor is at least slightly known and begging. What do those flash in the pan actors do cause the media won't bother printing their sob stories. I guess it's either sucking dick, becoming a real estate agent, go behind the scnes, become a personal trainer, or move back home to Kansas.

[quote] [R93] layed out a bleak review of his limited opportunites the past few years.

Oh, dear!

Funny he never married.

R103 is posting from 1950.

It’s 2022. Majority don’t marry anymore.

R101 $10 million BONUS. That isn’t her initial paycheck, which was reportedly between $7-$10 million. So that’s an extra $10 million bonus on top.

She also makes $100k per episode to star in Euphoria, much more than the rest of the cast. Plus she’s an Exec Producer there and holds a lot of power, so I’m sure she gets bonus money there too.

I knew it was a bonus but her rate vs Toms for what little she had to do in that film shows her power in Hollywood right now.

R84 Translation, he's self-aware enough to realize that Tim Riggins' looks were basically 95% of the character, and that the decade+ has taken it's toll on his own looks.

[Quote] It's sad really but also shows why so many actresses and actors end up on yatch. Not playing, Kitsch is just the type to end up doing the yatch circuit (if desperate enough) alongside people like Chance Crawford before he landed his smallish part in The Boys.

I think Taylor would try the con circuit before yachting.

Too many actors who experience a certain level of success end of living way beyond their mean and expect to have the income stay the same or even continue to increase over the years, which of course rarely happens. The smart ones live smartly as well and maybe purchase a home at a reasonable price and stash the rest away. Taylor always lived frugally and he probably doesn't have to work if he doesn't want to.

How do you know he lived frugaly r109 are you his accountant?

I liked "John Carter" and was surprised when I read it was a flop. One of the things I liked the most was that even though it must be colder on Mars than Earth, John Carter never wore a shirt so as to best show off his beautiful perky nipples.

I can understand why Taylor wouldn't want to do a FNL reboot. Someone on another thread mentioned that Taylor and Minka had a very toxic relationship to the point that cast/crew had to do an intervention. No wonder she's into bearding these days.

Even a three-way with Aaron Taylor-Johnson and a clothed Blake Lively in SAVAGES didn't boost his career.

I don't know this person. Is this the person that puts "Inspected by 36" in the underwear package at Macy's?

R77 She absolutely failed.

Any attempts she made outside of shitty rom coms were bombs. Any attempts at drama or action, she failed. She was only capable of playing herself or Rachel, basically the same thing.

Her first post-Friends films all bombed. “Derailed”, “Rumor Has It”, and “Friends with Money” were hyped up as her crossover into being a full time actress. All of them bombed.

Luckily she had “The Break Up” but she never maintained consistency as an actress or a box office star. She was no Julia Roberts.

R111 John Carter flopped because no one knew what it was.

The marketing was all wrong.

Somebody should have told him very early on that he had little acting talent and to save his pennies.

Any openings in the Caymans?

John Carter lost the studio hundreds of millions

This court case is going to be interesting: one of the most outrageous examples of 'studio accounting' in years.

R120 they didn’t lose money on that film. They just don’t wanna pay him.

Bohemian Rhapsody made so much profit that they gave Brian, Roger and Mary huge bonuses! Mary was given a $30-$40 million bonus for allowing her likeness in the film after the film was a blockbuster.

They clearly just don’t wanna pay this person, for whatever reason.

I wonder how much Rami Malek got. It's never come out. Even it it had been a straight salary deal, you'd have to imagine he was given he was given some kind of bonus. Or maybe not? A $60 million film that turns over $900 m (and it's still earning) is pretty rare.

R123 I do wonder what they gave Rami also

[quote]"Loved John Carter. Saw it in a theater 4 times."

And my neighbor's handsome son Joel accompanied me at least twice.

We still screen it sometimes in my living room.

He needs to fix that struggling hairline.

So awful in THE NORMAL HEART, though.

OP didn’t read the whole article. He’s been working non-stop.

R128 in small shit

OP is obsessed with this actor for some reason. It's like he's deeply offended that Taylor Kitsch exists and is happy they are in minor projects and not an A-list star. I don't get it. What did Taylor Kitsch do to you, OP? He's in a similar position of 90% of Hollywood, only the top 10% is gets big headlining roles and lucrative deals.

R130 first thread I ever made on him. But you’re so stupid that 1 is probably too hard for you to count

R131 You're also immature because you need to insult everyone because you can't take criticism. Don't make threads if you can't handle dissenting opinions.

R132 "Obsessed" might be just a bit much, but no doubt very "mature" of you.

I can see him as a suburban dad with a dark side, in some spooky cable series.

R134 maybe he could join Shining Vale.

Was he forced by his agents to do The Normal Heart?

He now lives in Montana. Never married. No kids. GAY. GAY. GAY. He probably uses the "I'm Canadian" excuse like Ryan Reynolds...

But isn't he right wing?

^Yes. Here is Taylor Kitsch enjoying a casual weekend with his MAGA loving redneck friend Marcus Luttrell and Fox New host Brian Kilmeade.

I bet he plays all these Navy Seal roles bc Hollywood knows he's a right wing troll and nobody reputable wants to work with him anymore.

Well that disappointing r139. I'm watching this cute movie called The Grand Seduction where a bunch of Newfies try to get his doctor character to move to their tiny town. I thought he was Timothy Olyphant for the first 20 minutes. I also liked John Carter

Not sure if appearing on Fox to promote a newly released project makes one a right-wing nut.

Is he problematic and no one wants to work with him? The few things I've seen him in, he was good.

The reason he never made it big is because his penis looks like a squid. 🦑

Wasn't he also in the good season of The Detectives?

True Detective!

He'd better come out as "Non-Binary or quickly adopt a kid, dress em up as the opposite sex and call em Trans if ever wants to ever work again!

I’m kind of shocked he outright said no to doing a FNL revival. He has a decent career, but it’s not earth shattering. FNL is one show I can totally see as a revival. It was a show that you always speculated where the characters would end up in the future. The writing was amazing and mature. There is a lot of story that could still be told about these characters. They are also still young enough to go in different directions. FNL was lightening in a bottle. Kitsch was perfect as Riggins. I will say, when I rewatch I don’t find him that attractive like I did when the show first aired. Matt was hotter in the later seasons. ZG turned into a hot daddy too. Anyway, it seems like other cast members are on board if they ever do it, but it wouldn’t be the same without Riggins.

Is he gay?

He was outstanding in Friday Night Lights.

AGREED! GIVE US RIGGINS!

So I just spotted him at the Jamba Juice in the Denver Airport (Terminal B). I was waiting for my coffee and did three double takes to make sure I had the right guy. But you don’t forget a crush’s face. His hair is the same length as he had it in Friday Night Lights. He wore a hat and still looks in shape, but not ripped.

I was sure if I should asked for a selfie or left him alone. He left for the restroom before I could decide.

Either way, I was excited to see him and wanted to praise him for his work. Hollywood, hire this hunk!

Must be so odd to have been so close to fame only to be unrecognized by the public. But I never run into celebs so this was a treat. I was in Middle School when the Covenent came out. It had a huge impact on my taste in men.