Taylor Kitsch grew up in a trailer park: White trash. Growing up, I really was.

Ive decided to hang on to HBO for a while longer just to see if Season 2 of True Detective is worth it. Im already having mixed feelings about my decision. Vince Vaughn makes me queasy and I really dont feel much of anything for Taylor Kitsch these days. I used to think he was

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I’ve decided to hang on to HBO for a while longer just to see if Season 2 of True Detective is worth it. I’m already having mixed feelings about my decision. Vince Vaughn makes me queasy and I really don’t feel much of anything for Taylor Kitsch these days. I used to think he was cute, but he flamed out so hard a few years ago and… I don’t know. I just stopped feeling it. But Kitsch is one of the leads of TD Season 2, and he has a new profile with Elle Magazine to promote it. Elle sent a Friday Night Lights superfan/journalist to interview Taylor and the result was… not the best piece. I basically just learned that the superfan really thinks Taylor Kitsch is hot. Here are some highlights:

Growing up in British Columbia in a trailer park: “White trash. Growing up, I really was. Proud of it.”

His early years as a model in NYC: “It’s not like I was this mainstream f–kin’ runway model. I wasn’t working. I lived in an apartment in Spanish Harlem with no electricity, and then I lost that, so I’d just catch the blue train. It skips a lot of stops at night, and then it stays up at 181st Street, I think. So I’d sleep there. And the security guy would come on and be like, ‘Get out.’ And I’d get out.”

His thoughts on John Carter bombing at the box office: “John Carter was a really great experience,” he tells me—which, of course, is another way of saying, “No regrets,” Riggins’s code and mantra, and, incidentally, Kitsch’s sign-off on personal e-mails.

Filming True Detective: “I didn’t know True was going to be near as emotional. This season—f–k. I could feel Paul seeping into me. I’d be doing something or acting a certain way and think, Oh, this isn’t me.”

He’s currently single: “You sacrifice so f–kin’ much [as an actor]. How do you build a relationship with a gal and then tell her, ‘Hey, I gotta do press all over the world. I expect you to have the same feelings you have now in eight weeks.’ And that’s not me playing the violin. It’s my choice. But it better be worth sacrificing for.”

[From Elle]

Is the problem the way the piece was written – sycophantic and fan-girly – or is the problem that Taylor really isn’t that interesting in real life? I think his aim is to be sort of silent and gritty and all about the work, which might make for a good actor (does it though?) but makes for a terrible interview.

By the way, I spent a moment with VF’s profile of Nic Pizzolatto (the creator/writer behind TD) and that guy sounds like a total douche. You can read that piece here.

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Photos courtesy of Eric Ray Davidson for ELLE and WENN.

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