Clear eyes, full pants, can lose.
Taylor Kitsch revealed a TMI moment while on “Today With Jenna & Friends” Tuesday morning.
The “Friday Night Lights” star, 44, appeared alongside Chris Pratt, Luke Hemsworth, and Tom Hopper to promote their new Prime Video show “The Terminal List: Dark Wolf.”
During a game called “Secrets” with host Jenna Bush Hager and guest host Matt Rogers, the pair tried to guess which skeleton belonged to which actor.”During a game called Secrets with host Jenna Bush Hager and guest host Matt Rogers, the pair tried to guess which skeleton belonged to which actor.
Shockingly, popping his pants during an audition belonged to Kitsch.
“I [went to] this coffee truck when we were shooting in L.A. I was in L.A. living out of my car, and I’d get all of these crazy auditions, like, four in a day, and I needed a strong coffee,” he recalled. “I’m having it, driving to the audition, I’m sitting in the waiting room just like this, and I s–t myself. No joke.”
The drama didn’t stop there.
“The bathroom door is right there. I’m like, ‘Oh my God,’” Kitsch continued. “I’m going in the audition room, I threw my underwear in the garbage can, came back out, and waited and did not get the job.”
Without going into too much detail, the actor elaborated that the audition “was a pilot, a TV show of some sorts.”
It’s safe to say the “John Carter” alum’s career worked out despite not booking the part. Kitsch went on to star as Tim Riggins on “Friday Night Lights.”
He portrayed the beloved Dillon Panthers’ football player for five seasons from 2006 to 2011.
The series shot Kitsch to stardom alongside co-stars Minka Kelly, Zach Gilford, Aimee Teegarden, Scott Porter, Gaius Charles, Adrianne Palicki, and Jesse Plemons. “Friday Night Lights” also starred Kyle Chandler and Connie Britton.
Kitsch has no desire to reprise his role in the NBC drama’s upcoming reboot.
“Yeah, I’m not going back,” he said to The Wrap at Monday’s premiere of “The Terminal List: Dark Wolf,” a sentiment he previously told The Post.
Kitsch also confessed to Access Hollywood that he has yet to speak to his former TV coach (Chandler) about the project.
“I’ll do a cameo,” he further explained while on the carpet. “I would do one. It’s got to be out of control, though.”
While Kitsch isn’t looking to be a main cast member, he is excited to tune in.
“I’ll be first in line to watch it. I hope it’ll be done right,” he exclusively told The Post in January.
Deadline reported in December 2024 that a “Friday Night Lights” reboot will air on Peacock. It will hail from original showrunner Jason Katims, original series director Peter Berg, and producer Brian Grazer.
Berg and Kitsch recently worked together again on the Western “American Primeval.”
The new “Friday Night Lights” plot will reportedly follow a Texas football team making a bid for the Texas High School State Championship after a devastating hurricane.
Kitsch added, “I’m as curious as everyone else.”
While the heartthrob has now changed his tune about a possible cameo, earlier this year, he wasn’t so sure. “To bring Riggins back? No. I don’t think so,” he reiterated in January.
“Maybe,” he confessed. “I haven’t thought about it, to be honest, but I don’t know. It’d be tough. If [Berg] calls me and he’s like, ‘Well, you play a coach on the other side of the sideline, and I’ll shoot you for 10 seconds, and Riggins is yelling at his players or something.’ I’d probably do that.”
“In my humble opinion, it ended when it should have,” said Kitsch. “We ended it with the dignity that it needed to to carry on. I’m just happy I got to play him for 4 or 5 years. I wish them all the best.”
