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GQ: So you're well aware of what a crazy year this is? To have three leading roles all in high-profile films?
Taylor Kitsch: 2012 is really make-or-break, isn't it? I mean you've got John Carter and then you got Battleship, and then we end with a true bang in Savages with Oliver Stone. What are you gonna say? I mean, if Oliver Stone calls you you're going to ****ing go. Pete Berg calls you, you should go. Andrew Stanton asks me to be an extra in this Indie he's doing? You want me to get coffee on the way to the set?
GQ: Battleship and John Carter are big, expensive movies.
Taylor Kitsch: Yeah. Some of the biggest movies the studios, arguably, have ever done. Knock on wood, I hope to be doing these two franchises and to go on to do some passion stuff.
GQ: Nobody knows what to expect from Andrew Stanton. Wall-E was amazing, but this is new territory. He's never worked with actors.
Taylor Kitsch: But he has though! He's working with ****ing Tom Hanks! When I met him, he really just let me go, and trusted me to do my own thing. Then I walk into his London office and there are 12 by 10 cue cards all the way around the top of his office outlining the emotional arc of John Carter. I'm like, 'Why the **** did I do any homework?' This guy had every moment right there on his wall.
Taylor Kitsch: 2012 is really make-or-break, isn't it? I mean you've got John Carter and then you got Battleship, and then we end with a true bang in Savages with Oliver Stone. What are you gonna say? I mean, if Oliver Stone calls you you're going to ****ing go. Pete Berg calls you, you should go. Andrew Stanton asks me to be an extra in this Indie he's doing? You want me to get coffee on the way to the set?
GQ: Battleship and John Carter are big, expensive movies.
Taylor Kitsch: Yeah. Some of the biggest movies the studios, arguably, have ever done. Knock on wood, I hope to be doing these two franchises and to go on to do some passion stuff.
GQ: Nobody knows what to expect from Andrew Stanton. Wall-E was amazing, but this is new territory. He's never worked with actors.
Taylor Kitsch: But he has though! He's working with ****ing Tom Hanks! When I met him, he really just let me go, and trusted me to do my own thing. Then I walk into his London office and there are 12 by 10 cue cards all the way around the top of his office outlining the emotional arc of John Carter. I'm like, 'Why the **** did I do any homework?' This guy had every moment right there on his wall.
GQ: What homework did you do?
Taylor Kitsch: I really focused on the loss of John Carter's family. I sat down with these historians in Texas about the Civil War because John comes from there. Then I read a ton of books, a lot of letters of former soldiers that would write back home. Brutal. It just taught me a lot. Even the way he fights... They wanted me to fence. After reading all this, I said there's no ****ing way I'm going to play John and be fencing. I want him gritty. He's so raw emotionally, I want him to be emotionally intense when he's fighting.
Taylor Kitsch: I really focused on the loss of John Carter's family. I sat down with these historians in Texas about the Civil War because John comes from there. Then I read a ton of books, a lot of letters of former soldiers that would write back home. Brutal. It just taught me a lot. Even the way he fights... They wanted me to fence. After reading all this, I said there's no ****ing way I'm going to play John and be fencing. I want him gritty. He's so raw emotionally, I want him to be emotionally intense when he's fighting.
GQ: And how did you actually film those Martian jumps?
Taylor Kitsch: We're on some dry lake bed in the middle of nowhere in Utah. We had two cranes about maybe 500 feet apart. I was doing 60-foot jumps on that wire. No one knows this story either. But Stanton and I were living at base camp, on this dry lake bed. The rest of the crew wasn't. It's like, "Oh ****, man—this sounds like a sweet idea. When else would you ever get to do that?" Oh my God, big mistake, man. Huge mistake.
GQ: Why?
Taylor Kitsch: Well, there's nice trailers: a 40-inch TV in your trailer, a bed, a full shower. You're like, "**** man, I'm living the dream." And once you get wrapped, you're home. There's not one or two hours of travel, like the rest of the crew. One night, I'm not upset, but the shower is basically pissing on you and it's ice cold. You're like, "Whatever, I'm just going to throw in a movie." No electricity. And you're on this lake bed, so there's nothing really stopping the wind. 80-mile-an-hour winds. In the dark. What are you going to do? I had a cold one. Then there's this screaming wind an I'm bracing myself because it feels like the whole trailer is going to be chucked up in the air: Oh my god, oh my god. Then I go to the middle of the trailer because I think maybe that's the safest spot and I end up sleeping on the couch, maybe an hour, tops. The next morning, Stanton looks terrible too. We had the exact same experience. He got up, moved to the middle of the trailer, had a Corona, didn't sleep.
Taylor Kitsch: We're on some dry lake bed in the middle of nowhere in Utah. We had two cranes about maybe 500 feet apart. I was doing 60-foot jumps on that wire. No one knows this story either. But Stanton and I were living at base camp, on this dry lake bed. The rest of the crew wasn't. It's like, "Oh ****, man—this sounds like a sweet idea. When else would you ever get to do that?" Oh my God, big mistake, man. Huge mistake.
GQ: Why?
Taylor Kitsch: Well, there's nice trailers: a 40-inch TV in your trailer, a bed, a full shower. You're like, "**** man, I'm living the dream." And once you get wrapped, you're home. There's not one or two hours of travel, like the rest of the crew. One night, I'm not upset, but the shower is basically pissing on you and it's ice cold. You're like, "Whatever, I'm just going to throw in a movie." No electricity. And you're on this lake bed, so there's nothing really stopping the wind. 80-mile-an-hour winds. In the dark. What are you going to do? I had a cold one. Then there's this screaming wind an I'm bracing myself because it feels like the whole trailer is going to be chucked up in the air: Oh my god, oh my god. Then I go to the middle of the trailer because I think maybe that's the safest spot and I end up sleeping on the couch, maybe an hour, tops. The next morning, Stanton looks terrible too. We had the exact same experience. He got up, moved to the middle of the trailer, had a Corona, didn't sleep.
GQ: And for Battleship, in May, you and director Peter Berg are back together. What was it like when he called you for that movie?
Taylor Kitsch: It was funny. I never told this story, even to Pete. We were on my boat in Austin. I ask, "What are you doing next?" He goes, "Battleship," in the Pete Berg manner that he does. Just confident. I'm like, "Battleship? Really?" He's like, "Yeah. It's going to be insane. It's going to be bad-ass." I didn't really think, "I got to do this." Especially with someone you want to work with you can never really be like, "Hey, can I work with you?"
GQ: You want them to want to work with you.
Taylor Kitsch: Yeah. Then I was in London much later, and he calls and says, "I'm going to fly up to London and talk to you." Pete's like that, man. If he wants anything in life he'll get it. We're very similar in that way. I think he's been an underdog. That's all I've known as well. Just being that guy who's just come out of nowhere.
GQ: How do you see yourself as an underdog?
Taylor Kitsch: The Riggins casting, man, was last minute. I had to put myself on tape by 2:00 on Thursday from Vancouver. I e-mailed it to them, traveled down on Sunday to read. There was one guy left reading for Riggins. He thought he had it, obviously, being the only ****ing guy. So I come into this boardroom. There's this cocky guy sitting across from me, like, "What are you reading for?" Two hours later you're Tim Riggins.
Taylor Kitsch: It was funny. I never told this story, even to Pete. We were on my boat in Austin. I ask, "What are you doing next?" He goes, "Battleship," in the Pete Berg manner that he does. Just confident. I'm like, "Battleship? Really?" He's like, "Yeah. It's going to be insane. It's going to be bad-ass." I didn't really think, "I got to do this." Especially with someone you want to work with you can never really be like, "Hey, can I work with you?"
GQ: You want them to want to work with you.
Taylor Kitsch: Yeah. Then I was in London much later, and he calls and says, "I'm going to fly up to London and talk to you." Pete's like that, man. If he wants anything in life he'll get it. We're very similar in that way. I think he's been an underdog. That's all I've known as well. Just being that guy who's just come out of nowhere.
GQ: How do you see yourself as an underdog?
Taylor Kitsch: The Riggins casting, man, was last minute. I had to put myself on tape by 2:00 on Thursday from Vancouver. I e-mailed it to them, traveled down on Sunday to read. There was one guy left reading for Riggins. He thought he had it, obviously, being the only ****ing guy. So I come into this boardroom. There's this cocky guy sitting across from me, like, "What are you reading for?" Two hours later you're Tim Riggins.
GQ: What if you go around three times?
Taylor Kitsch: No. It gets awkward if you do it another one.
GQ: It's been tested?
Taylor Kitsch: Oh, yeah. It's a patent: Just go one more. Good old hockey background: It comes in handy. Dress shoes' laces always come loose. Not if you just go around one more.
GQ: We'll call it The Kitsch.
Taylor Kitsch: Let's make an app. A $4.88 app. All the languages. Make it worldwide. My sweet claim to fame. ****ing loser.... Yeah. That acting stuff's all great, but seriously, will you just go around one more? Tie your laces right.
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Taylor Kitsch: No. It gets awkward if you do it another one.
GQ: It's been tested?
Taylor Kitsch: Oh, yeah. It's a patent: Just go one more. Good old hockey background: It comes in handy. Dress shoes' laces always come loose. Not if you just go around one more.
GQ: We'll call it The Kitsch.
Taylor Kitsch: Let's make an app. A $4.88 app. All the languages. Make it worldwide. My sweet claim to fame. ****ing loser.... Yeah. That acting stuff's all great, but seriously, will you just go around one more? Tie your laces right.
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