Taylor Kitsch doesn’t really care if he’s considered a “TV actor” actor or a “movie actor.” From Friday Night Lights to X-Men, he’s no stranger to magnetic, dynamic characters whose ambiguous motivations grab hold of audiences and don’t let go for an hour or twenty. And now, with his new Prime Video series The Terminal List: Dark Wolf, Kitsch has the opportunity to revisit a story he says is “balls to the wall” but with a “great heartbeat.”
“I think that stigma's gone of like, ‘are you a TV actor or a fucking movie actor?’” Kitsch says. “That’s silly to me. Streaming has kind of taken over in a lot of ways. The game is just different. You look at Painkiller, obviously The Terminal List. You look at American Primeval. (With TV) you definitely get a longer runway to discover and basically develop a little more. Obviously you're giving me six hours plus instead of 90 minutes. So I do love that part of it. But I don't approach a character differently.”
Taylor Kitsch says working with Chris Pratt on The Terminal List was "a lot of fun."
For Kitsch, The Terminal List: Dark Wolf was a chance to collaborate once again with Chris Pratt, star of the original Terminal List series and with whom he shares an EP credit on Dark Wolf.
“Pratt doesn’t have an ego,” Kitsch says. “He's just such a cheerleader for you and he wants you to do great, and vice versa. We're old enough and I think situated where we are in our careers that you're genuinely happy for the other guy. My relationship with CP has been fucking great, man. We had chemistry since day 1.”
As you can see in the exclusive featurette above, Kitsch and Pratt worked together to help figure out storylines for Kitsch’s character Ben Edwards, a supporting player in the original Terminal List series whose origin story of leaving the Navy SEALs and bcoming a CIA operative wasn’t told in Jack Carr’s novels.
“Creatively we'll talk it out,” Kitsch says of Pratt. "And I think because this is not in the Carr books, we had a wider array of choices where we can take Ben. So that was a lot of fun as well. But and I think the beauty of (Pratt’s character) Reece is that we're so fucking different, but we want the same things. And I think that's why a lot of people had a lot of fun watching (the original series. It was like Ben and Reece are just totally different beings.”
Taylor Kitsch has advice for the cast of the Friday Night Lights Reboot
For Kitsch, revisiting Ben Edwards in The Terminal List: Dark Wolf was a no-brainer, but that doesn’t mean he’s game to reprise his famous Friday Night Lights character.
“I'm never playing Riggins again, let's be clear,” Kitsch says. “But I think you're always wanting to make an impression. I’m flattered (that the character still resonates with people). If I was a songwriter and had an amazing song that you thought was great and people responded to it, that's the best thing you can do as a storyteller. Leave an impression or evoke something from someone through a performance.”
And although he most likely won’t be returning for the announced FNL reboot, Kitsch has some advice for whomever is inevitably cast in the new series’ “Riggins” role.
“Whoever that next Riggins is,” he says, “take a swing and hopefully you can leave an impression (like) a bunch of us did on that show.”
The Terminal List: Dark Wolf streams on Prime Video August 27, 2025
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