Taylor Kitsch is an easy man with easy pleasures. When he’s not performing, he likes using his motorbike, exploring the nice outside and consuming a glass of bourbon. It’s becoming for his newest endeavor: A marketing campaign with Jefferson’s Bourbon, a model Kitsch likes as a result of they share his humorousness.
“My way of life is sort of outdoorsy and fairly out of the field,” he tells Observer. “I am fairly self-deprecating. However on the finish of the day, it’s about high quality. So all these [qualities] are aligned with me. The advert is about breaking the custom. And that is like the best way I’m going about life, to be trustworthy. Adventuring, pondering out of the field.”
The actor, who most lately starred in Amazon Prime Video’s The Terminal Checklist: Darkish Wolf, a prequel to 2022’s The Terminal Checklist, spends his off-time in Bozeman, Montana. He moved there in 2021 from Texas, the place he spent over 15 years, and has embraced the out of doors spirit of the city. For the time being, he’s again in Texas making ready to shoot Peter Landesman’s upcoming movie Eleven Days, a hostage thriller set in a penitentiary. As a lot as he enjoys his job, balancing work and pleasure is a “fixed battle” for Kitsch.
“I like what I achieve this a lot,” he says. “It simply turns into your life, and also you obsess over it, and I find it irresistible as effectively. It is a catch-22, as a result of I additionally love being within the outside, and images, and motorbike using all around the world. That stuff permits me to neglect [my job], and I actually do suppose it makes you a greater actor [by] studying about totally different cultures and being uncomfortable. That’s what residing is about to me. So I do not know if there’s a stability. I am fairly excessive.”
Kitsch tends to pick roles that push him, similar to he enjoys excessive journey to locations like Patagonia, the place he rides bikes and pictures wildlife. However that doesn’t essentially imply one thing has to have a giant motion part.
“Eleven Days is extra in regards to the human situation, the examine of 1 man towards one other,” he notes. “It is a true story in 1974, so that is what intrigued me, aside from being uncomfortable. It’s very totally different from something I’ve ever accomplished. I believe you’ve acquired to be uncomfortable, and also you’ve acquired to attempt to put your self in conditions the place you do not have a simple reply. So I am excited. And I am scared. And that often means I’m doing the appropriate factor.”
Right here, Kitsch reveals what he takes with him on the highway, what he wants on set and what’s in his dwelling bar moreover Jefferson’s.
