Men of valour: Taylor Kitsch - with (from left) Mark Wahlberg, Ben Foster and Emile Hirsch) in Lone Survivor. How much did you know about firefighting before working on this movie? You play one of the firefighters who died in the line of duty. It’s just a matter of opportunity - if it’s the right time, the right filmmaker, and if the role speaks to me.”Ĩ DAYS: Only the Brave, out this week, is about the Granite Mountain Hotshots, the real-life team of Arizona fire-fighters who lost 19 men in a blaze in 2013. Just like I’m all in on these other movies. If the right blockbuster comes around, I’ll be all in. “But I’m in an incredibly fulfilled state right now with the work that I’ve done, so I’m excited to just keep swinging. “I don’t think I’ve turned myself off to them,” the 36-year-old actor tells us over the phone. In both movies, he doesn’t play the lead. This year, Kitsch returns to the big screen in not one, but two movies: Only the Brave, the true-life story of a group of wildfire fighters, and American Assassin, the action thriller about rogue soldiers and stolen nukes.
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Written off as box-office poison, Kitsch retreated to TV Land where he found acclaim, not as a leading man, but as part of an ensemble on HBO’s AIDS drama The Normal Heart and gritty crime thriller True Detective. Sadly, all three movies - how canwe put this delicately? - underperformed. The Canadian hunk, then best known for his role on the football drama Friday Night Lights and as mutant Gambit in X-Men Origins: Wolverine, had three movies - the Mars epic John Carter, the board game-inspired Battleship, and the drug smuggling actioner Savages - coming out with three months of one another. 2012 was supposed to be a big year for Taylor Kitsch.