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“True Detective” is HBO’s equivalent of a Marvel project. Everyone is doing everything they can to keep details under lockdown, and there have been more rumors in terms of casting than actual confirmed news. And while we know that Colin Farrell and Vince Vaughn have secured parts, the long rumored participation of Taylor Kitsch has […]

Actor opens up about the rough road to unexpected stardom Taylor Kitsch is someone you’ll be seeing a lot of, and soon. From his first role—a minor part in Samuel L. Jackson surprise hit Snakes on a Plane—to his breakout part on NBC’s high school football drama Friday Night Lights as running back Tim Riggins, […]

There are a lot of reasons to watch the premiere of HBO’s The Normal Heart this Sunday and one is a bit more superficial than the others—Taylor Kitsch is in it. All of the other great things about the movie are kind of added bonuses: the important subject matter, the rest of the impressive cast, […]

Ask Taylor Kitsch if he’s a one-dimensional actor—what with his starring roles as the stereotypical Hollywood bad guy-fighting beefcake in big-budget films like John Carter and Battleship, this year’s war thriller Lone Survivor, not to mention perhaps his most memorable turn as Tim Riggins, Friday Night Lights’ fullback with those clear eyes and a full […]

The HBO film takes an unflinching look at the nation’s sexual politics as gay activists and their allies in the medical community fought to expose the truth about the burgeoning epidemic to a city and nation in denial. This subject matter couldn’t be more relevant with the recent drafting of the first openly gay NFL player Michael […]

Even as Larry Kramer, the lifelong gay activist, worked with producer and director Ryan Murphy on the HBO adaptation of Kramer’s 1985 play The Normal Heart, which premieres May 25, Kramer kept asking the question: Why did it take so long? Why, he lamented, did it take so long to make the play into a […]